To you therefore, jointly and severally, I do commit, and firmly injoining. do command each and every of you, that in due manner, him, the said Ebenezer Punderson, or his lawfull Proctor, in his name, and for him into the real actiial, and corporal possession of the Rectory of the said Parish Church and Parish, including the districts and precincts aforesaid, and all of their rights and appurtenances, whatsoever, you induct, or cause to be inducted, and him so inducted you do defend : and of what you shall have done in the premises thereof, you do duely certify unto me or other competent judge, in that behalf, when there unto you shall be duely required.

Given under my hand and the prerogative seal of the Province of New- Y'ork, at Fort George, in the City of New-Y'ork, the seventeenth day of November, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-three."

C'adwallader Colden."

CERTIFICATE OF MR. PUNDERSON'S INDUCTION INTO THE RECTORSHIP OF THE PARISH OF RY'E. " I, John Milner, Rector of the Parish of Westchester, in the County of Westchester and Province of New-Y'ork, do hereby certifye, that by virtue of a warrant hereunto annexed, from the Honourable Cadwallader Colden, Esquire, his SFajesty's Lieutenant Governour and Commander in Chief of the Province of New-York, aforesaid, and the Territories depending thereon, in America ; I have this day inducted the Rev, Ebenezer Punderson, into the real, actual, and corporal possession of the Rectory of the Parish Church of Rye, commonly called Grace Church and of the Parish of Rye, including the several districts or precincts of Rye, JIamaroneck, and Bedford, in the County of Westchester aforesaid, with all their rights, members, and appurtenances, the 2l6t day of November, .\nno Domini, 1763. The induction of the Rev.