If he does not cultivate he cannot maintain his family & he must loose his Land if he does cultivate, he cuts down The Inhabitants cannot Trees, for which he is in danger of being undone by prosecution & fines It cannot build Houses without pine for boards & covering, nor send Vessels to sea without masts. ;

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Neither the Pitch Pine nor White Pine are properly Pines according to the Botanists but are put by them under the Pine being called bv Tourncfo'irt Larix orientalis fructu rotundiori obtuso & by J Bonhim.

class of ye Larix the White

Cedrus magna, Sive Libani, Conifera.

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have not seen the true Pine to the Northward of Maryland.

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surely be the intent of the Legislature to put the inhabitants under such extreem hardships by denying us necessary timber while we live in the midst of such Forests as cannot in many ages be

destroyed

--And the more that the King

for whose use these Trees are reserved, does not nor has not

made use of one Tree for many years in this Province. Nor need we mind the apprehensions of some who tell us of what ill consequence it may be if the People of the Plantations should apprehend that the people of England design to cut them off from the common body of English subjects by denying them the fundamental English Privilege of being tryed by their country Our mother country the nursery of Liberty will never give up her children to the ravenous appetites of any one man nor will they loose the surest tye she has upon the affections of the people in the plantations especially in a Frontier Province in the neighbourhood of so