That the Albany-People made a Truce witli the French of Canada, and liad a Trade with them all the Time of the Wars: Notwithstanding by their Remonstrances to the Assembly, of their Danger, and they being a Frontier, the Country was at gTeat cliarge keeping Garrison there, and all the Officers must be of Albany, and most of the Money for that Service centers among them ; wliich was tliought to be the greatest Reason for that Service.

And if the Governor for tlie time being liatii power to establish so many Representatives, and in what Places of tlie Government he pleaseth (as it now is) and such as for their own Interest will do and comply with all the Proposals to bring it to pass, and the Governor to put in Office Avhom he will, and as many as he pleaseth, and allow them what Sallary he sees cause, and all the publick Money m the Government at liis Disposal, to no other

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Use but at his Will : Then the People in the Colony have not the Property and Liberty of English Subjects, but are subjected to some Mens Avarice ; not only to those wlio have the Name of Christicms, but to the barbarous and cruel Heathen. And is it not a Dishonour to His Majesties Crown and Dignity, that his Subjects should be sold Tributaries to them ? Would it not be better for them to part v;ith one Half of tlieir Personal Estates, for Encouragement for 5000 or 6000 Men to come and suppress those Salvages, that his Majesties Subjects could not live quietly by, and to possess their Lands, and not become Tributaries to them, or at least to do as those of Quebeck did in October, 18, 1716, on the Interruption of their Commerce by the Savages, living Four Hundred Leagues up the Country, went with Three Hundred French and Six Hundred Savages their Alhes, to bring them to a better Temper : And finding the Enemy well entrenched witli Pallisadoes and good Ditches, they planted themselves near enough to tlie Pallisadoes, and threw two Granadoes, brought tliem to Surrender and agree to pay the Expence they had been at, and restore to the French their former Skin-Trade, as before ; and they had but one Frenchman and two Savages wounded in that Expedition, thought there were above 3000 Men Women and Children in that Fort.