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lt there. The exports are provisions, furs, tar, and lumber. The imports of English manufactures amount to £ 50,000 yearly. The customs, excises, and quit-rents do not nearly suffice for the public expenses. The chief trading-places are New York and Southampton on Long Island for foreign commerce, and Albany for Indian traffic. There are about 2,000 males able to bear arms, 140 of them horsemen. Fort James at New York is a square of stone with four bastions, mounting forty-six guns; Fort Albany at Albany is a small stockade with four bastions and mounting twelve guns, sufficient against the Indians. Ministers are scarce and religions many, so that there are no records of marriages or births in New York. In New York there are no beggars, but all the poor are cared for......1678 Governor Andros knighted by the King in London......1678 Sir Edmund Andros lands in New York after a nine weeks voyage......Aug. 8, 1678 Jacob Leisler, with other New-Yorkers, on the way to En