It does not appear to tliis Board there was any Contagious Distemper on Board the said Vessell but upon Consideration of the Number of Persons who have been sick in the Voyage, and the quantity of Cloaths which may have Contracted Noisome Smells through the Length of the Voyage

It is ordered by his Excell>' with the Advice of the Council that the Commander of the said Ship do not Suffer any Person to Come on Shoar on this Island with any Cloaths Chests or other furniture till the same have been thoroughly air'd upon Nutton Island during the pace of six hours at least as the said Commander shaU Answer the Contrary at his Peril.

716 PAPERS RELATING TO THE

GOV: BUKNET TO THE BOARD.

[Lond Doc XXII.]

New York 21st Novr 1722 My Lords

****** When I was at Albany I expected to have fixed the Palatines in their new Settlement which I liad obtained of the Indians for them at a very easy purchase, but I found them very much divided into Parties and the cunningest among them fomenting their Eivisions on purpose that the greatest number might leave the Province and then the great Tract of Land lately purchased would make so many considerable estates to tlie few Familys that should remain and witli tins view they told me that they found tlie Land was far short of what tlie Indians had represented it to them and tliat not above twenty Familys could subsist there which I shewed them was a mere pretence by naming a Tract where 130 Familys live and flourish, which by their own confession was less and no better soil than theirs how^ever since I found it was their humour to undervalue what had been done for them I tliought it best to wait till they should of tlicmselves be f >rward to settle this new Tract ratlier than to shew too mucli cainestness in pressing them to it.