In a Brief for collecting the said sura it is provided that in case the Redemption or Death of the said captives shall happen before the arrival of the said sum in Holland, that then it shall be disposed of to such uses as are mentioned in the said Brief; The Slaves being either dead or redeemed before the money was transmitted, his excellency in council hath assigned the said sum for the finishing of the steeple of Trinity Church. '

1 For the Docs, connected with the above Transaction, see pos^ p. 41 i^.

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His excellency the Governor taking into liis consideration tlie great cliarges the parishioners liave been and are still at in raising the Edifice and steeple to that perfection they designed it, hath been graciously pleased to recommend to her Majesty the Queen, that i\ may please her Majesty to bestow a farm within the bounds of the said City, known by the name of the King's Farm, to the use & benefit of the said Chm-ch, with half an acre of ground adjoining to the said ChiU'ch designed by his Lordship fer a Garden and a house to be built for the said Incumbent.

Plis Lordship has been pleased to encourage Religion, and discountenance Vice in the said Province by Proclamation, and has used his utmost endeavours to promote the Public Worsliip of God, and train up Youth in the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England, particularly in the city of New- York, and liath contributed to the building a French chm-ch. And since the death of the late minister of the French Congregation, resolves to use his interest to introduce a French Minister that shall have Episcopal ordination and conform to the constitution of the church.