If Ml" Freerman & his friends should not be pleased to consent to the above articles that then Cap" Joannes De' Peyster be desired to produce the resolucon of the Classis of Amsterdam, whereby Peace is said to be recommended according to the order of the said Classis, as M^ Freerman intimates in his letter without date to M"" Antonides that Capt. De Peyster aforesaid had shewn the same to him, together with the means' to attain sncli a Peace.

New-York 4^^ March 170f.

By order of tlie said Elders and Deacons,

Abrah: Gouverneur, Joseph Hegeman, Gekonemis Kemsen,

PlETER MeLIJLS.

Endorsed,

" Proposals on the part of M'" Antonides's friends. 17U8."

PAPERS RELATING TO KINGS COlJN'rY. 155

FURTHER PETITION OF DOME ANTUNIDES' ELDERS.

To the Right Hon^'e Rich^i Ingoldesby Esq' her Ma* ■* Lieut Gov & Comand'" iu Chief of the Provinces of New-York & New Jersey and the hon^ Councill of • the same: The Petition of Joseph Hegeman Peter Nevius & Jeronimus Remsen in tlie behalf of the Elders & Deacons of the _ Dutch Reformed Protestants Churclies of the towns of iBatbush liatlands & brookland, Humbly Sheweth,

That yo'' Pet « did in the time of the late Lord Lovelace petition liis Ex'^y & Councill against sundry Iregularitys coraitted in their Churches by M^" Bernardus freerman:

That his E\y & Councill were pleased to referr the Examicon thereof unto three of the members of this board to take ye same in tlie p^sence of sundry other Gent".