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