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8. What is the strength of your bordering Neigh-
Neighbors.

bors, whether Indians or of any other Nation by Sea
& Land. And what is the state & Condition of their Trade
and Commerce?
9. What Correspondency doe you keep with

Correspondence.

your Neighbors?
10. What are the Boundaries, Longitude, Latitude,
& Contents of Land within y^r Province ? What num-
ber of Acres patented, settled or unsettled. And how much is
manurable land ?
Trade and 11. What are the principal Townes & Places of
Building. Trade. And what manner of Buildings are most
used in y^r Colony as to the strength and largeness of them ?
12. How many Parishes, Precincts or Divisions are

Parishes.

within your Lord^p's Province ?
13. What Rivers, Harbours & Roads are w^thin your
Province. And of what depths and soundings they
are?
14. What Commodities are there of the production,
growth and manufacture of your Plantation and of
what value yearly, either exported or consumed upon the place
and what materials are there already growing, or may bee pro-
duced for shipping: as alsoe what are the Commodities im-
ported, and of what value yearly ?
15. Whether Salt-peter is or may be produced

Saltpeter. within your Plantation: And if so in what quantity,
and at what rates it may be delivered in England ?
16. What number of Merchants & Planters, English
or Forreigners, servants & slaves and how many of
them are men able to bear armes ?
17. What number of English, Scotch, Irish or For-

Number.

reigners have (tor these seaven years last past, or any
other space of time) come yearly to plant & inhabit within the
Province. And alsoe what Blacks & Slaves have been brought
in within the said time and at what rates ?
18. What number of Whites, Blacks, or Mulattos
Christenings. have been born & Christned, for these seaven years

last past, or any other space of time, for as many years as you
are able to state an account of?
19. What number of Manages, for seaven years last

Manages.

past, or any other time, for as many years as you are
able to state an account of ?
20. What number of people have yearly dyed within

Burials.

your Province, for seaven years past, or any other time,
for as many years as you are able to state an account of.
21. What estimate can you make touching the
Estates of the severall degrees of Merchants and Plant-

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