That your Excellencys Petitioners by your Lordships benign favour and goodness understanding that one Cornelius Sebring for his own private Lucre and gain is ^soliciting your Lordship for her Majestys Grant of another Ferry from Nassaw Island to this City and of most of the Landing places now belonging to this City designing thereby to make Considerable Improvements to Ruine and destroy the present ferry the Chief Income and Support of this Corporation for the Prevention whereof your ExceHencji Petitioners most humbly Supplicate that your

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Lordship will be favourably pleased to take tlie Premisses into your Prudent Consideration and for the reasons aforesaid (the many more may be offered to lorlg here to incert) to Eeject the unreasonable and unjust Petition of the said Cornelius Sebring, wee liaveing an Intire Confidence of your Excellencys Justice and goodness that as you have hitherto Protected us in our Just Rights and Piiviledges (for which wee Return your Lordship our most dutiful! and Gratefull Acknowledgm^s So your Lordship will Continue to Countenance and Protect us in the same and that you will Ever prefer the publick welfare of so Loyall and Considerable a People as this Corporation are before the Interest and unjust pretence of a Private Person.

tfebb 5, 1707. And your Excellencies Petitioners as in

duty bound shall ever pray &c.

Ebenezer Willson. his Richd Willett

John Hendrick 8 brevoort ^ t,,

mark ^ ' -tiiagge

T: Van Zandt Walter Thong

Christo Denne John Tuder