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Great-Britain and Ireland, the greater advantages muft 
accrue to the manufad;urers of the mother country 
as colonizing from the plantations will keep the 
price of labour at fo high a rate, as will cffediually 
prevent our engaging in manufa^5tul•es, and greatly 
encreafe the fale of Britilh manufadures in Ame- 
rica. 
The number of the inhabitants in our old American 
fctllements double once in twenty or twenty- five 
years, and in our-new made fettlernents, once in 
fifteen or twenty years. 
The New England colonies are better peopled than 
the other provinces and colonies in America, which 
I principally attribute to the tenure of our lands, 
wich are held in fee-fimple, according to the tenure 
of the Manor of Eafi Greenwich in Kent ; and I 
humbly conceive nothing would fo much facilitate 
the fettlement of crown lands, obtained by our new 
acquifitions in America, as their being granted in 
like manner: paying quit-rents to monopolizers of 
large trads of land, is not well relilhed by Ameri- 
cans, and has in itfelf a natural tendency to render 
the defence of the country againfi: foreign invaders, 
and our favage enemies, defpicably infamous. A 
fignal inftance of this happened during the French 
war, A. D. 1745. The colony of Connecticut having 
juft before finiftied the fettlement of their new lands, 
adjoining to the Manor of Livingfton, in the province 
of New York, being on the north- weft frontiers of 
this colony, fome fculking parties of Indians being 
feen in the manor aforefaid, the tenants left their 
fettlernents, which had been made almoft a century 
before, and fled over into this country to our new-made 
fettlernents, 
