REPORT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE ON THE SETTLExMENT OF ADDITIONAL PALATINES IN NEW YORK.

[Lond. Doc. XVII.]

to the queens most excellent majesty. May it Please your Majesty.

In obedience to your Majesty's commands signified to us by the Right Hon^ie the Earl of Sunderland ^ we have considered

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tlie Proposals made by Colonel Hunter for settling 3000 Palatines at New York, and Employing them in the Production of Naval stores, and thereupon humbly Represent to your Majesty --

Tliat the Province of New Yorke being the most advanced Frontier of Your Majestys Plantations on the Continent of America, the Defence and Preservation of that place is of tlie utmost importance to tlie security of all the Rest ; and if the said Palatines were seated they would 1>e an additional strength and security to that Province not only with regard to the French of Canada, But against any Insurrection of the scattered Nations of Indians, upon that Continent, and therefore we humbly Propose that they be sent thitlier.

By the best Information v/e can gett, the most proper Places tor the seating them in that Province, so as they may be of benefit to this Kingdom by tlie Production of Naval Stores, are on the Mohaques River, and on Hudsons River, where, are very great numbers of Pines fit for Production of Turpentine and Tarr, out of wliich Rosin and Pitch are made.

First, in relation to the Z»Iohaques Elver -, Your Majesty was pleased by your Order in Councill of the 26tii June 1708, to confirm an Act past at New York the 2'^ of March 169f for vacating several Extravagant Grants, whereby large Tracts of Land are returned to your Majesty, and among the rest--