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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 155 (part 5)

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[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] * That those interested in the country may also attend to its government and keep a watchful eye over it, without its being intrusted to a set of hairbrained people, such as the Company flings thither, but to such as obtain in New England. NoTA Bene. — New England is divided into four Colonies, which they style Provinces. Each Colony hath its Governor, and neither Patroons, Lords nor Princes are known there; only the People. Each Governor is like a Sovereign in his place, but comports himself most discreetly. They are, and are esteemed. Governors