Besides wee find the contrary to bee very inconvenient in this that whereas formerly the damnified

Tobacco which came from thence not fit for England wee made up in rolls and sent y c same up the River to the Indians who in Exchange gave in Beaver @ Peltry, for want whereof his Maty 8 revenue here is much impaired inasmuch as the Indians are therefore forct either to Plant the tobacco themselves or to goe where they can be furnished with it

@ there carry their beavor @ peltry (they being

of that temper that they had rather want clothes than Tobacco) by which Meanes his Maty s revenue sustains a double loss, one in the ten pe r cent such tobacco pays custom up the river

the custom of such Beaver

@ the other in

@ peltry as the same would produce

Further if Pennsylvania bee continued as by charter running five degrees to the westward it will take in the most of the five nations that lye to the westward of Albany

@ the whole Beaver @ Peltry

trade of that place the consequence whereof will be the depopulation of this Goverm1 for the people

must follow the trade.

Those Indians and the people of this Goverm 1 have been in continued peace

@ amity one with another these fifty years

And those Indians about forty years agoe did annex

GOV. DONGAN'S REPORT ON THE PROVINCE OF NEW-YORK. their lands to this Governm 1

@ have ever since constantly renewed the same with every Governor @ the English @ in particular to myself who have