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 :

The revenue that is established in this Province is in such a nature that if the encroachm 18 and pretences of our neighbours be removed, it will not only be sufficient to defray the charge of your tie3 Coffers. Maj tie * Governm* but also bring in profitt into your Maj

East Jersey is scituate on Hudsons River over against Long Island Staten Island and New York, and they pretend by the aforementioned grant to be a free place and to have free ports to trade as they please, which if admitted must certainly destroy yo r Maj ticS interest and revenue here ; for what merchant will come to New York and trade and pay to yo r Maj'y 2 and 10 p cent with the excise and

yo r Maj ties duties settled here, if they can at 2 or 3 miles distance over against the same place go and be free from any duty or imposition whatever. Connecticutt lyes to the eastward of us & pretends to the like freedome as East Jersey, and doth in the same degree threaten y