your Majesty's Crowne and hath belonged as an appendix to this your Maj ties Governm 1 many years Notwithstanding thereof Mr Penn endevors to disturb your Majesty before Mr Penn had his pattent. endeavoring to tempt the Indians to sell it in the peaceable and quiett possession of the premises ;

again to him, by that means not only to dispossess your Majesty of your antient rights, but also to

pervert and draw away the trade of the Indians to his Province ;

which will be an irreparable loss

to your Majesty, all the Nations with whom Albany hath their trade liveing at the head of Susquehanna River. So the revenue of 10 p Cent, the impost upon powder, lead, alumn and furrs, quite lost, and if

Mr Penn should attain his pretences to the Susquehanna River, it will not only destroy

the best branch of your Maj ties revenue, but it will likewise depopulate your Province, the inhabitants of Albany haveing only seated themselves there and addicted their

minds to the Indian language and the misteries of the said trade with purpose to manage it, that if it should be diverted from that channell they must follow it, haveing no other way or art to gett a livelyhood.

The 3 Lower Countys were planted at the charge and expence of this your Maj 8 citty of New Torke and chiefly to encrease and preserve the navigacon of this port, being recommended to imploy their industry in planting of tobacco, which being a bulky comodity gave great encouragement to 1 *'