@ sixty persons now living The men that are here have generally lusty strong bodies At Albany there is a Fort made of pine trees fifteen foot high @ foot over with Batterys and conveniences made for men to walk about, where are nine guns, small arms for forty men four Barils of powder with great and small Shott in proportion, The Timber @ Boards being rotten were renewed this year, In my opinion it were better that fort were built up of Stone @ Lime which will not be double the charge of this years repair which yet will not last above 6 or 7 years before it will require

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the like again whereas on the contrary were it built of Lime

& Stone it may bee far more easily

maintained, And truly its very necessary to have a Fort there, it being a frontier place both to the Indians

@ ffrench

At Peniaquid there is another Fort built after the same manner as I am informed a particular description whereof I am not capable of giving having never been there however its a great charge q

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Govermn without being any thing of advantage to it, having officers there with

twenty men always in pay, And which makes it yet more chargeable, I am forced to send If stores thither, altho' its near four hundred miles from this place from time to time provisions