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.

And whereas the said Minister Elders & Deacons respectively for the use of their said cliurches by virtue of sundry mean conveyances in the Law are .possessed of sundry parcells of Lands & Tenements respectively for every particular Church aforesaid That is to say for the Church of Flatbush two Lotts of land situate lying and being in the said Town on the north side of Col. Gerardus Beekman Jacob Hendrickse & lioelof van Kerck on the south of the lane that leads to Gouwanes conteining one hundi-ed & eigliteen acres as allso tAvo Lotts of meadow the [whole] being in the bounds of the said Town over the fresh creek broad 7 Rodd laid out by N" 19 and the other over the Second Creek broad 12 Rod No 15 both stretching from the woods 'to the Sea Allso one otlier Lot of Land in the said Town to the north of Peter Stryker and to tlie South of the highway that Leads to the New Lotts Containing fourty eight acres Allso one other Lot to the South of Peter Stryker & matty Luyster and to the North of the Lane tliat leads to the New Lotts conteining fourty eight acres Allso two Lotts of meadow the one over the fresh creek broad 7 Rodd N" 20 and the other over the Second creek