been appropriated themselves subjects to your Majesties Crowne, yeares The Indian inhabitants have always reckoned with any of your Majesty's subjects Commerce and are not willing to submitt or have any trade or had always an absolute dobut those att Albany, your Majesty's forts of New Yorke and Albany of all those to the Westminion over all the Indian Nations adjacent to this Province but especially forts, acknowledging Majesty's your to tribute bring to annually ward and they were accustomed which we conceive highly them obstructed Collonyshave neighbouring the same, but of late years the the afore recited any of conveyed by not is injurious to your Majesty's interest and that this royalty ;
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grants.
Lon°- Island is pleasantly scituated and well planted
but brings little gain unto your Majesty, the
have erected five towns. East end being chiefly settled by New England people who
Their improve-
What is produced from their industry is frequently made to confine them to this carried to Boston and notwithstanding of the many strict rules and laws
ments are most in pasturage and whaleing.
looking after it. The place they interlope that the revenue there is not able to defray the expense of middle of the Island [is] altogether barren ; the West end chiefly employed in tillage, which in a
measure supplys the traffiq of New Yorke great All the rest of the Province, West Chester, Staten Island and Martin's Vineyard excepted, consist of barren mountains hills not improveable by humane industry. Now May it please Your Maj*y :