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Cool Thoughts on the Present Situation of Our Public Affairs - 13
12017-06-28T14:07:05-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650a72001(annotation)plain2017-06-28T14:07:05-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650aty we enjoy, as well in our Trade, by the Protection of his Ships of War, as by Land, by an Independent Company maintain’d purely for our Safety and Encouragement. The taking off the Enumeration of Rice, is a peculiar Favour, &c.*”
By these Accounts we learn, that the People of that Province, far from losing by the Change, obtain’d internal Security and external Protection, both by Land and Sea; the Dissenters a Restoration and Establishment of their Privileges, which the Proprietary Government attempted to deprive them of; and the whole Province, Favours in point of Trade with respect to their grand Staple Commodity, which from that Time they were allowed to carry directly to foreign Ports, without being oblig’d, as before, to enter in England.
With regard to the neighbouring Province of New-Jersey, we find, in a Representation from the Board of Trade to the Crown, dated Whitehall, Oct. 2, 1701, the following Account of it, viz. “That the Inhabitants in a Petition to his Majesty the last Year, complained of several Grievances they lay under by the Neglect or Mismanagement of the Proprietors of that Province, or their Agents;--------unto which they also added, that during the whole Time the said Proprietors have govern’d, or pretended to govern, that Province, they have never taken care to preserve or defend the same from the Indians, or other Enemies, by sending or providing any Arms, Ammunition or Stores, as they ought to have done; and the said Inhabitants thereupon humbly prayed,
* HISTORICAL RESEARCH, No. 63, for 1731.
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12016-08-19T13:01:29-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650aCool Thoughts on the Present Situation of Our Public Affairs - 131Cool thoughts on the present situation of our public affairs. : In a letter to a friend in the country.2016-08-19T13:01:30-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650a
