Two years will be required to prepare the Trees, but afterwards tliere will be such a succession of them as will enable the sending Tar & Pitch enough not only for supplying the Royal but even tlic whole Navy of England, & will give such a life to y® Trade of this country, as may very mucli contribute to encoui-age the wollen manufactory at home & discourage of it in the Plantations, by making the returns from tliis so far exceed the import, tViat it will make this Port tlie Emporium of the Continent in America. I think it Sir needless to sollicit your comitenaure in this intended design, the benefit of Great Britain is so visible therein, that there need no more than hint it to make you espouse it & become Sollicitor and promoter of it, with the ministry & in Parliament if need be for appointing a fund for setting of it briskly a going.

The Palatines begun last week to embarck for the Places where they are to l^e settled, tlie rest of tiie time after they have prepared the Trees for making Pitcli & Tar they shall employ in raising those things that will be fitting for their future comfortable subsistance

Sir, I beg again leave to trouble you about my small concerns, the which having already laid before you I shall not enlarge on, only pray your assistance in procuring an order to his Excellency for repaying me the expences I have been at on the Coast of England and for allowing my salaries from Christmas last. His Excellency hath honoured me with the Post of Commissary of the Stores with an allowance of £ yearly which obliges