Queries on Frontier Settlement and Defense
MS not found; reprinted from William Duane, Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin...with a Postliminious Preface (Philadelphia, 1834), I, xvii.
[1756]
Considerations to be taken:

What number of men?

Should the post be fortified, and in what manner?

How long to be continued there?

Could they not be partly employed in raising their own provisions?

Could they have some lots of land assigned them for their encouragement?

What their pay? and from what funds?

How much the annual expense?

Is it certain that the late method of giving rewards for apprehending rioters will be effectual?

To whom does the land belong?

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