Alsoe very often shipps bound to this place break bulk there @ run their goods into that Colony with intent afterwards to import the same privately @ at more leisure into this Province notwithstanding their oath, they salving themselves with this evasion that that place is not in this Goverm To day an Interloper landed five tun @ one half of teeth there, to prevent all which inconveniences @ for the securing of this place from enemys, I desire to have an order to make up a small Fort with twelve guns u pon Sandy -Hook the channell there being soe near the shore that noe vessel can goe in nor out but she must come soe neare the Point that from on board one might toss'a biscuit cake on shore.

,

[Vol.

I.J

gov. If the Proprietors would rightly consider it they would find it to their own interest that that place

should bee annexed to this Government for they are at a greater charge for maintaining the present

Goverm than the whole profits of the Province (which is by quit-rents) will amount unto

are at the whole charge the Country allowing nothing towards

its support soe that

;

for they

had they not the

charge of the Goverm', they might put that money into their own pockets.

And indeed to make Amboy a port will be no less inconvenient for the reasons afore mentioned neighboring colon)' s being not come to that P'fection but that one fort may sufficiently serve us all