Whereupon It is ordered that the said order of this Board be confirmed and that M^" fltreeman doe not presume to preach in any of the Churches to which M"* Antonides is called, and that none of the said Clmrch Masters soe Newdy Elected presume to Intermedle in the affaires of the said church or in any Lands houses or other effects thereto belonghig And all her Majesties Justices of the Peace of the said County and persons Concerned are to take Notice hereof and Governe themselves accordingly.

PETITION OF THE CONSISTORY FOR A CHARTER.

To Ills Excellency Egbert Hunter Esq"^ Capti^ Gen^i &

Gov^' in Chief in and over her Mati«3 Province of New

York &c &c &c.

The humble Peticon of Vincentius Antonides Minister of

the Reformed Protestant Dutch Churches of Flatbush

Brookland & flatlands in Kings County on the Island of

Nassau in the Province of New York Joannes Cornel

Rynier Aarsen, & Henry Filkin Elders of the said Chui-ch

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at Flatbush Benjamin Hegeraan Cornells Cornel & Jan Bennet Deacons thereof- -Michiel Hansen Jan Dorlaut & Cornells Van Duyn Elders of the said Church at Brookland Nicolas Van Dyk Isaak Remse & Jan Rapalie Deacons thereof, Jan alberts ter heunen Lucas Stevense H Gerrit Stoothof Elders cf the said Church in Flatlands, Harman Hooglant Alexander Simson & Jan Amermau Deacons of the same. Most Humbly Sheweth,

That for many years last past at the charge of sundry of the Inhabitants of the said Towns & of other Pious persons there hath been erected in each of the said Towns a Chui-ch for the Publicq worship of Almighty God and othiCr Divine Service to be celebrated therein after the manner of the Dutcli nationall Churches of the Provinces of the United Netiierlands acording to their Profession and Disciphne Established by the nationall Synod of Dort held in the year 1618 & 1619 which said three Churches since the settlement have always Joyned together iu the calling & paying of one Minister for them all.