Letter from Alexander Cumine to Alexander Ogilvie (Transcript.) Became a schoolteacher of Latin to boys. 'Deterred from trade by the distracted condition of America' - declining trade of the province. 'We are mad about liberty but weary of our resolutionsof our not importing goods ... there is a stagnation of trade, [p]rice falling, people complaining - we need only a steady and resolute government to set matters right again but that we seem not to have'. 17 March 1770