Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I
Neither had I any advantage by that vessel as Mr Santen knows tho' hee had by making George Heathcot pay him ninety pounds @ charges which was more then the third part the condemnation came to soe that I hope this is not the voyage hee charges the King with soe much for, tho' it is the only remarkable one hee ever made @ yet but ten miles distant from this place
To the seventh concerning my Lord Neill Campbells goods
My Lord Neill Campbell its true desired my bill of store for the 10 P cent which I did r
Mr Santen does mee wrong to say that I ordered they should bee entered without examination to the best of my remembrance there was noe such thing: but here hee forgets
grant, but
what hee has done himself what goods he has admitted to entry without examination contrary to Act of Assembly @ my order as appears by his own books to the great diminution of his Mat!S revenue in this Province neither does he remember what bills of store hee has granted :
notwithstanding several orders to the contrary
To the eighth concerning one Riddell
Mr Santen does mee wrong in this, One Mr Riddell a poor Gentleman that brought into this city without entry (as a great many others have done without Mr Santen or his officers taking notice thereof) a small parcel of linen afterwards appraised to be of the value of 3 or 5 pounds,