KENNELLY, Archibald, publicist, born in Scotland; died in New York in 1763. He was a lineal descendant of Thomas Kennedy, second son of the third Earl of Cassilis, in the peerage of Scotland. Coming to this country, he was made collector of customs at the port of New York, and was also a member of the provincial council in 1750. He advocated parliamentary taxation, and publicly urged on the ministry that "liberty and encouragement are the basis of colonies." "To supply ourselves with manufactures," he insisted, " is practicable; and where people in such circumstances are numerous and free, they will push what they think is for their interest, and all restraining laws will be thought oppression, especially such laws as, according to the conceptions we have of English liberty, they have no hand in controverting or making. They cannot be kept dependent by keeping them poor." He at one time acted as receiver-general of the province. Kennedy published " Importance of the Northern Colonies " (New York, 1749) and " Present State of Affairs in the Northern Colonies" (1754).