Before we go out of this province, w^e design to visit the Quakers again att Flushing, and in some other parts, and to try what influence my lord's recommendation will have upon them to give me a hearing vv'ithout interruption. *******

New York, 29 Novemb"- 1703.

PAPERS RLLATliS^G TO THE CITI OF NEW-YORK. 415

PETITION OF THE HECTOR &c., OF TRINITY CHURCH, N. Y.,

TO APPROPRIATE TO THE CHURCH, CERTAIN FUNDS RAISED FOR THE REDEMPTION OF CAPTIVES IN BARBARY.

To His Excellency Edward Viscount Cornbury Captain

Gen'i and Governour in Clieif of the Province of New -

Yorke and tlie Territorjs depending tliereon in

America and. Vice Admiral! of the same &;c in Council.

The liumble petition of the Rector Wardens and Vestrymen

of Trinity Cliurch in New-yorke

humbly sheweth

To Yor Escell: that on the 2^ day of December 1697 Coll ifletcher tlien Governour of the Province by advice and consent of the Council for that time being did order that Coll. Steph Cortlandt M"" Peter Jacobs Mariuss D"- John Kerbyle and M*^ Johannes lOp (trustees of money raised of voluntary contribution by lycense of the Government towards the redemption of perticular slaves in Salley and failing that use towards such other pious use as the Governour and Council of the Province for the time being should direct) should deliver over the papers and all things relating tJie said money with full power to have use and receive the same to M'' Thomas Wcuham and M' Rob* Lurting then Church wardens of said Church tow^ards the finishing the building of said chm-ch under a certain provision that if it were possible to purchase the redemption of one Bartholomew Rosston (the surviving slave of that number) that the corporation of s'^ church be accountable for s^ some or somuch thereof as to answer his redemption as by a copy of s*^ order and annexed papers more at large appears.