Albany is a smale long stockadoed forte with foure bastions in it, 12 gunns, sufficient ag Indians, and lately a wooden redout & out worke at Pemaquid w th 7 gunns, l

s'd Garrisons victualled for a yeare, 7.

w th suff stores.

There are no privateers about o r Coasts.

Our Neighbours westward are Mary land populous and strong but doe not live in townes, their produce tobacco, Northwest the Maques & c Indians y e most warr like in all the Northern Parts of America, their trade beavers & furrs. Northward the ffrench of Canada trade as wee with our 8.

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Indians ; Eastward Connecticut in a good condicon & populous, their produce provisions of wheate, beefe &. porke, some pease, o r South bounds the Sea. 9.

Wee keepe good Correspondence with all o r neighbours as to Civill, legall or judiciall proceed& mutuall assistance w ch they nor Massachusetts will

ings, but differ with Connecticutt for o r bounds

not admitt.

Our boundaries are South, the Sea, West Delaware North to y e Lakes or ffrench East Connecticut river, but most usurped & yett possed by s'd Connecticut some Islands Eastward & a tract beyond Kennebeck River called Pemaquid, &c. New Yorke is in40 d 35 ,n Albany ab l 43<>; theCollony is in severall long narrow stripes of w ch a greate parte of the settlem 1 made by adventurers before any Regulacon by w ch Incroachm t3 without pattents w ch townes have lately taken but by reason of continuall warrs noe Survey made & [qu. of the] wildernesse, noe certaine computacon can be made of the planted and implanted, these last 2 yeares about 20,000 acres taken up and pattented for particuler persons besides Delaware, most of the land taken up except upon Long Island is improued & unlesse the bounds of the Duke's pattent be asserted noe great quantityes att hand undis10.