made upon Long Island that any man may wear. Now if they begin to make Serge, they will in time make Course Cloth, and then fine we have as good fullers earth and tobacco pipe clay in this Province, as any in the world how farr this will be for the service of England I submit to better Judg;

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ments ; but however I hope I may be pardoned, if I declare my opinion to be, that all these Colloneys,

which are but twigs belonging to the Main Tree (England) ought to be Kept entirely dependent upon

& subservient to England, and that can never be if they are suffered to goe on in the notions they have, that as they are Englishmen, soe they may set up the same manufactures here as people may do in England

for the consequence will be that if once they can see they can cloath themselves, not ; only comfortably but handsomely too, without the help of England, they who are already not very

fond of submitting to Government would soon think of putting in Execution designs they had long harbourd in their breasts This will not seem strange when you consider what sort of people this

Country is inhabited by.

TRADE AND MANUFACTURES OF THE PROVINCE OF NEW-YORK.

M R CALEB HEATHCOTE TO THE BOARD OF TRADE, 3 AUG. 1708. [

Lond. Doc. XVII. ]

My Lords -- This conies chiefly to ask pardon for all the trouble I have given your Lordships in my What I aimed at chiefly therein was the service of my r (notwithstande: yo Lordships I may have been otherwise represented) is very assure do Nation & I dear to me. And what in the first place I aimed at by my proposals was, to have diverted the Ameseverall letters relating to the Naval Stores.