abundance of Quakers preachers men @ Women especially; Singing Quakers, Ranting Quakers; Sabbatarians; Antisabbatarians Some Anabaptists some Independents; some Jews; in short of all sorts of opinions there are some, and the most part of none at all The Great Church which serves both the English @ the Dutch is within the Fort which is found to ;

The church

bee very inconvenient therefore I desire that there may bee an order for their building an

other ground already being layd out for that purpose

@ they wanting not money in Store wherewithall to build it

The most prevailing opinion is that of the Dutch Calvinists To the five and twentieth It is the endeavor of all Psons here to bring

up their children @ servants in that opinion which

what course &c themselves profess, but this I observe that they take no care of the conversion of their Slaves.

Every Town @ County are obliged to maintain their own poor, which makes them bee soe careful that noe Vagabonds, Beggars, nor Idle Persons are suffered to live here

But as for the Kings natural-born-subjects that live on long-Island @ other parts of the Government I find it a hard task to make them pay their Ministers. Tho. Donga n.

My Lords Since my writing of this, on Perusal of some Papers in the Secretary's office, I found some Memorandums of Sir Edmond Andros whereby I understand that in the year 167f hee sent home Capt n Salisbury for England to let his Royal Highness now his Ma'y know how impossible it was, for this Government to subsist without the addition of Connecticut. And hee himself went with some soldiers to surprise them, intending when he had done it to keep possession by a Fort he designed to make at a place called Seabrook but was prevented by the opposition of two Companys of men then lodged there ready to goe out ag st the Indians with whom they were in Warr Much less it can subsist now without it, being at more expense than in the time of Sir Edmond @ having lost Delaware @ soe consequently the Peltry Trade which is not much inferiour to that of the Beaver, besides much Quit-rents @ the Excise which would have been a very considerable Revenue And too, what helps, he had these from East @ West Jersey.