To the Fourteenth I will make a diligent enquiry I can give y Lo noe account at present but by the next I may. s knowledge I will acquaint whether salt about it @ when I have got any thing worthy of your Lop Pe,re&c you with it e

To the Fifteenth Concerning the number of the Inhabitants merchants English @ Foreigners, Servants Slaves @ how give an exact account but in order to my being able to bear arms it is not possible to ° manv

What number

of inhabitants certainly

informed I have issued forth several warrants to the Sheriffs within this goverment

gov. dongan's report on the PROVINCE OF NEW- YORK.

requiring them to make an inquiry thereof

@ to return the same to mee on which returns I shall not

fail to give your LodP the account required. s

To the Sixteenth I believe for these 7 years last past, there

has not come over into this province twenty English

But on the contrary on Long Island the people encrease soe fast for want of land @ many remove from thence into the neighboring complain that they scowif Irish have been since my coming here several familys come both there French But of have°c ome to'province.

what number Scotch or Irish familys. r

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from St Christophers & England @ a great many more are expected as alsoe from Holland is another great argument of the necessity of adding to this

are come several Dutch familys which