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enforce them to make any Particular Lawes They use no
other Lawe then the Lawe of England.
To the: 5: 6: I answer as to Castles and forts there are
None soe that if an Ennemy should Land there He would not
fynde any place wherein he may fix himselfe Every County
hath its Trayned Band the number of which are proportionable
to the Inhabitants of each County for the tyme beeing and
cannott be given by me here with any certaynty There is
besydes Three Troopes of Horse consisting of about 180 in
all which have beene of late kept on foote for the security of
the Provynce since the late Rebellion in Virginia begann./.
To the: 7: I answer that I doe not knowe of any Privateers
or Pirats frequenting those Coasts./.
To the: 8: 9: I answer as to the Neighbours They are either
English or Indians the English neighbours knowe their owne
strengths of which I cann give no Account, as to the imediate
next Indian neighbours their strengths and numbers are not
considerable They Lyveing under severall Distinct Govern-
ments some haveing two hundred some Three hundred some
five hundred subjects and there is Generally a Good Corres-
pondance kept with them all. The more remote Indians are
more numerous but with those this Provynce hath Little corres-
pondance nor cann it by any reasonable conjectures be guess'd
what their strengths are As to the Trade of those Indians with
whom the Provynce corresponds It is not considerable They
are generally an Idle people who take no care for any thing
But foode which they gayne by huntinge and fishing and some-
tymes they sell the English the skinns of such Beasts as they
kill which is their only commodity that they have to sell it is
not considerable.
To the: 10: I answer that the Boundaryes Longitude and
Latitude of this Provynce are well described and I sett forth
in a Late Mapp or Chart of this Provynce lately made and
prepared by one Augustine Herman an Inhabitant of the said
Provynce and Printed and Publiquely sold in London by his
Majestyes Licence to which I humbly refferr for greater
certaynty and not to give their Lordp's the Trouble of a Large
Tedious discreption here But as to the numbers of Acres
Patented and settled or unsettled It is Impossible to give any
guess at them here or to have any probable accot of them In
case I were there Otherwise then by causeing a review of all
the Grants which have passed and which would require a
Great Tyme and charge and a greater number of Persons so
employed therein then cann be easily procured.
To the: 11: 12: I answer that the principall place or Towne
is called st Maryes where the Generall Assemblye and Pro-
vinciall Court are kept and whither all Shipps Tradeing there
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