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[Page 9]
Besides all the attention which is required to the encouragement of agricultural pursuits, and protection of outsettlements, there is much for me to do in the Police of the Country (Magistracy not being arrived to that dignity which it should have been) - in its state of defence; in repairs and completion of the public works & Churches which are in a most dilapidated state; in regulating private Buildings, and schools in the Towns, and the watching over the rising generation, and impressing upon their minds by instruction, what has been entirely neglected by their Parents, in moral and Christian Duties; but there are a vast number who have no Parents, the Mothers being dead, and their Fathers having left the Country, being either Sailors, Soldiers, or Prisoners. In no Country would there occur more obstacles in gaining these ends, for besides the natural habits of the Prisoner tending to obstruct every attempt, the Settlers are by no means of that character which teaches industry and good will.
But under all these