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YOU cannot be more concerned than I am at the frequency of your ſervice in Aſſembly, ſince I am very ſenſible of the Trouble and Charge it Contracts upon the Country: But the Motives being conſidered, and that You muſt have met of Courſe in the next Month, I hope you will not think it a Hardſhip now. The reaſons that haſCountry, to go for ENGLAND; where taking Advantage of my Abſence, ſome have attempted, by falſe or unreaundermine our Government, and thereby the true vaLabours and Property, Government having been our firſt EncouraVoyage without great RelucWilderneſs, and that I might ſtay ſo long at leaſt with you, as to render every Body inHeart is among you as well as my body, what ever ſome people may pleaſe to think: and no unkindneſs, or diſappointment ſhall (with ſubmiſſion to God's Providence) ever be able to alter my Love to the Country, and Reſolution to return and ſettle my Family and Poſterity in it; but having reaſon to believe I can at this time beſt ſerve you and myſelf on that ſide of the Water, neither the rudeneſs of the ſeaſon nor Tender Circumſtances of my Family can over-rule my Inclinations to undertake it.
Think therefore, (ſince all men are Mortal) of ſome ſuitable Expedient and Proviſion for your Safety, as well in your Priviledges as Property, and you will find me ready to Comply with whatſoever may render us happy by a nearer Union of our Intereſts.
Review again your Laws, propoſe New ones that may better your Circumſtances; and what you do, do it quickly, remembring that the Parliament ſits the end of the next Month, and that the ſooner I am there, the ſafer I hope we ſhall be here.
I muſt recommend to your Serious Thoughts & Care the Kings Letter to me, for the Aſſiſtance of New-York, with Three-hundred and Fifty pounds Sterling, as a Frontier Government, and therefore Expoſed to a much greater expence in proportion to other Colonies; which I call'd the laſt Aſſembly to
I am alſo to tell you the good News of the Governour of New-York, his happy Iſſue of his Conferences with the five Nations of Indians, that he hath not only made Peace with them, for the Kings Subjects of that Colony, but (as I had by ſome Letters before Governments under the
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I have done, when I have told you, that Unanimity and Diſpatch are the Life of Buſineſs, and that I deſire and expect from you, for your own ſakes, ſince it may ſo much Contribute to the Diſappointment of thoſe, that too long have ſought the Ruine of our Young Country.
WHe have this day in our Aſſembly, read thy ſpeech delivered (Yeſterday) in Council, and having duly conſidered the ſame cannot but be under a deep ſenſe of ſorrow for thy purpoſe of ſo ſpeedily leaving us, and at the ſame time taking Notice of thy Paternal regard to us and our Poſterity, the Freeholders of this Province and Territories annexed, in thy Loving and Kind Expreſſions of being ready to Comply with what ſoever Expedient and Proviſions we ſhall offer for our Safety as well in Priviledges as Property and what elſe may render us happy in a nearer Union of our Intereſts; Not doubting the performance of what thou haſt been Pleaſed ſo LovingHouſe.
Printed at Philadelphia by Reynier Janſen 1701.