Your Excellencjs Petitioners therefore naost humbly pray tkat jour Lordship will be favourably pleased to take the preriiiser3 into your prudent Consideration and order her Majestys Grant unto the Petitioners and their Successors for all the Vacant and unappropriated Ground on Nassaw Island from High water to Low water marke fronting unto tliis City from the place Called the Wallabought unto the Red hooke against Nutten Island for the better Improvement and accommodation of the Said ferry ; and also that yoiu" Excellency would be further i^leased to order unto the Petitioners & their Successors her Majestys Grant of Confirmation for the said ferry on both sides of the said River with power to Estabhsh one or more ferrys if there shall be occasion and to make by-Laws for the more orderly Regulation thereof at such Reasonable Rates and under such Mod,erate quitt

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Rent as your Lordship in your great prudence sliall see meet. And your Excellencies Petitioners as in duty bound shall ever pray &c

W'« Smith Ebenezer Willsox

Christo: Denne Jolm Tuder

John hendrt 8 breevoort D Provoost

Paul Droihiet jRichd Willett

Olfert Svoerts J J) -. Riemer

E. Blagge April 8th 1708 Read and granted k a Warrt to be prepared for the Attorney Gen" to draw a Patt.

A Full & just Discovery of the weak &

slender foundation of a most Pernicious

S L A N D E E

Raised against the

French Protestant Refugees

Inhabiting the Province of ^^ew- York generally, but more particularly affecting