Wee haue severall Rivers, Harbours and Roades, Hudson's River the chiefest & is ab 4 fathom water att coming in butt six, tenn or more within & very good soundings & anchorage either in Hud13.

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son's River or in the Sound, the usuall roade before the town and moulde. 14.

Our produce is land provisions of all sorts as of wheate exported yearly about 60000 bushells?

pease, beefe, pork, & some Refuse fish, Tobacco, beavers, peltry or furrs from the Indians, Deale

&

oake timber, plankes, pipestaues, lumber, horses, & pitch & tarr lately begunn to be made, Comodityes imported are all sorts of English manufacture for Christians & blanketts, Duffells & c

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for Indians

about 50000 lb yearly, Pemaquid afords merchantable ffish & masts.

Wee haue noe Experience or skill of Salt Peter to be had in Quantityes. Our Merchts are not many but with inhabitants & planters about 2000, able to beare armes old inhabitants of the place or of England, Except in & neere New Yorke of Dutch Extraction & some few of all nations, but few Serv much wanted & but very few slaves. 1 5.

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Noe persons whateuer are to come from any place but according to act off Pari' w ch the

magistrates and officers of the severall townes or places are to take care of, accordingly the plautacon is these late yeares increased, but noe Genrall ace* hath been taken

what persons.

soe is not knowne how much nor Some few slaues are sometimes brought from Barbadoes, most for Provisions and