against other Indians and the French pretences, which we are daily threatened with, being informed that they intend with a considerable force of themselves and the Ottawawes Indians to descend upon Albany and take it, which is not at present able (if attaqued) to resist, neither is the whole Province as now narrowed, capable to secure that post, which hath occasioned an applicacon to our neighbours for assistance, but possitively denj^ed : the particulars whereof are more plainly expressed in letters to the Secretary of State and Plantacons :

by all which yo Maj'y may judge of the present state of r

this Province, and of the inconveniencys that dayly attend it.

Now may it please your most Excell Maj'y.

The premises considered we humbly presume and represent unto y most sacred Majesty that there can be nothing in America more conducive to yo r Maj tieS subjects upon this continent then that Connecticut, East and West Jersey, Pensilvania and 3 Lower Countys be reannexed to this y r Maj 4 '** Province which then will be a governm 1 of sufficient extent our late annexing to Boston haveing been evidently ruinous and destructive to these parts and may be other waies prejudicial to yo r Maj ties interest for these reasons. Your Majty hath already by the unanimous consent of the people, ;

a revenue established of greater value than is any where else in yo r Majty s Plantacons and whoever are joyned to this Province submit to the Establishm* ; wheras it will be difficult to settle the like