Such as pay noe quit-rents I bring into the aforementioned court for Ms Maty rents @ revenues where in a short time they are easily induced to doe it, @ I hope his mentioned list of patents.

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Maty w jil have considerable revenue by it To the Ninth

The principal towns within the Goverm are New York Albany @ Kingston at Esopus All the rest are country villages the buildings in New-York @ Albany are generally of stone @ brick.

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In the country the houses are mostly new built, having two or three rooms on a floor

The Dutch are great improvers of land New York @ Albany live wholly upon trade with the Indians England and the West Indies. The returns for England are generally Beaver Peltry Oile @ Tobacco when we can have it. To the West Indies we send Flower, Bread Pease pork @ sometimes horses the return from thence for the most part is rumm which pays the King a considerable excise @ some molasses which serves the people to make drink @ pays noe custom There are about nine of ten three mast vessels of about 80 or 100 tons burthen two or three ketches © Barks of about 40 Tun and about twenty sloops of about twenty or five @ twenty Tunn ships & principal

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All of which trade for England Holland

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@ that way any The Tenth is answered in the answers to the four @ twentieth &e