In obedience to an order of this board formerly made whereby wee the Subscribers & others were appointed to Examine & Inquire into and heare the Petion of the Elders & Deacons of the Dutch Reformed Churches of Breuk Land Flatbush & New Utreght in behalfe of IVP antonides on the subject lAatter of the said Petition as also M^" Freeman and others Concerned in the said affaire & to make report thereof to tins board wee the Subscribers conceiving it our duty, do most humbly certify & Report this our opinion Viz*: that the said M"" Freeman is Justly & Legally Called & Entitled to the ministry of the said Churches of Breuk Land Flatbush New Utreght and Boswyck and that the said M"" Antonides is not Legally called thereto for the Reasons Following

First that the Persons whoe pretend to haue Called M'' Antonides were not at that time the Elders & Deacons of the said Churches according to y« Rules & Methods p»"scribed by the Sinod of Dort for the Governm*: of the Dutch Reformed Churches, they liaving Continued as Such Some thi-ee years. Some four years, whereas by the Constitution of the said Sinod they could haue continued but two years

Secondly, that the call on which M"" Antonides came over is Expressed to bee made by a Generall towne meeting (wliicl; apears to haue been the usuaU way in Such Casses) and that apears utterly false by the Examinations, for that the pretended authority for making that call apears not to be given in a public^ meeting, but to be obtained Privatly &" Clandestinely by Procuring Subscriptions in Going from house to house & there ushig false Lisinuations concerning IVP" Freeman.