They do most humbly Pray that the said Minister Elders & Deacons & tlieir Successors may be by lier Majesties Grant or Charter under the Seal of this Province Made One body Politick and Corporate in the same, and in like manner and as near as may be to the Charter heretofore granted to the Minister Elders k Deacons of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of the City of New York, save only that the severall Lands & Tenements aforesaid now in their Possession be therein reserved to the use of Each respective Church aforesaid paying to her Matie her heirs and successors the Proporcon of the Quitrents they now pay in each respective Town aforesaid

180 PAPERS RELATING TO KINGS COUNTY

And yo' Petion'-s as in Duty bound shall ever Pray &c

Luycas Steuense V. Antonides

Gerrit Stoptliofif Pteynier Aertsen

Claes Van Dyck . Johannes Cornel

Hermanus Hooglandt Hen: ffilkin

Jan Amearman Alexander Simpson (mark)

Migguel hansen benjamin liegeman

John Borland (mark) Cornells Cornel

Cornells Van Duyn Dit is het | p cigen gestelt Isaack Remsen ' liandt '^^ merk van

Jan Rapale Jan Bennit

Kings County the 1 Aug^t 1711.

Read in Council 8 Aug 1711. & referred

CAVEAT ENTERED AGAINST THE ABOVE.

In Council, 13'h Sept. 1711 Mr. Jamison acquainted tliis Board tliat Inglebert Lott has entered a Caveat against granting a Charter to some Dutch Churches in Kings County And tliereupon Moved that the said Lott appeare and shew liis Cause of Entring such Caveat to the Committee to whom the Petition fur the Charter is Referred. It is Ordered that he appeare and shew cause accordingly.