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

We in this Government look upon that bay that runs into the Sea at Sandy Hook to be Hudsons River therefore there being a clause in my instructions directing mee that I cause all vessels Pai ai iandy

that come into Hudson's River to enter at

New York I desire to know whether his Mat y

intends thereby those vessels that come Avithin Sandy-Hook, the people of East-Jersey pretending a right to the river soe farr as their province extends which is eighteen miles up the river to the northward of this place

West Jersey remaining as it does will be no less inconvenient to this Goverm

for the same reasons

@ that so near situate to us that its more for their convenience to have commerce here than any where else, @ under those circumstances that if as East Jersey, they both making but one neck of land

there were a warr either with Christians or Indians they would not bee able to defend themselves