Leonard Lewis Engel bardt Lott

Leendert huygen de Kleyu Jolm Ditmars Joh: Tiebout Yacob houderte

Henry Swift Fred'rick Symonse

John Van Brugh Jacobes Oukes

Martin Clock Philip Nagel

Andrew Greveuraet Jurre Colyer

R. Walter Abraham Brouwer

Johannes hoogiandt Johannis Polhemius

Chrestapher Beekman Cornelis Coljer

PAPERS RELATING TO THE CITY OF NEW-YORK. 423

hendrick vaider heul Daniel Remsen

Evert Duyckinek Auke Leffertseu

G. Duyckinek benjamin andrews

Rutgurt Waldron Lammert

Abr:Santford Claes Blom

Bpjijamin Faneuil Cornelis Vander lioeve

Jean Cazalez Pieter Gerbrantse

Jolin Auboyneaux Jacob Pardon

Johannes Burger Benjamin D'liarriette.

BEMONSTEANCE OF THE CORPORATION OF NEW YOM AGAINST THE PRECEDING.

To His Excellency Edward Viscount Cornbury ' Capt* General & Governour in Chief of her Majesty s Province of New York &c : and Territories depending thereon in America and Vice Admiral of the Same &c : The humble Petition of the Mayor Aldermen & Commonality of her Majestys City and Corporation of New York '

Most Humbly Sheweth

That tlie Inhabitants of the said City ana Corporatiosi for Seaveiity years past liave peaceably and quietly PossesM aad Efijoy'd Several Rights Liberties PrivIIedges Franchise* Free Customs Preheminencys Advantages Jimsdictions Emoluments and Immunities Granted and Confirmed unto them by her Majestys Royal Ancestors and the divers Governours Authorized & Commissioned by them as well as by the several GoverHOurs Directors and Commanders in Chief of the Nether Dutch nation whilst the same was under their power and Subjection to the great increase of her Majestys Revenue and the Sencible Growth and Advancement of her Majestys said City and Province and Among the Rest that of the Ferry between the Said City and Nassaw Island (formerly Called long Island) and that the loading and landing place of the said Ferry from