They therefore Humbly Pray

May it Please Your Excell<="'

By Letters Pattent under the Great Seal of This Province to Incorporat them by the Name of the Minister Elders and Deacons of the Presbyterian Church in the City of New York to make them One Body Politick & Corporat in fact and " name Capable and able in the Law of sueing and beinosued answering and being answered unto Defending and beinsr

462 PAPERS RELATING TO THE CITY OF NEAV-YORK.

Defended in all Courts of Law and Equity in all matters and Causes wliatsoever of taking and receiving holding and Enjoying to them and there Successors for Ever there said Church and Ground and Cemitry where the same now Standeth with such other necessarie powers and Authority for the Preservation and Continuation of there Succession The Management of there Affixires and the free use and Exercise of there said Rehgion in the said City of New York as your Excellency with the advice of His Maji'^s Counciil shall see meet and Reasonable and the Petitioners As in Duty Bound shall Ever pray &c

James Anderson New- York Sept^ 19th 1720 Patrick Macknight

John Nicoll Joseph Leddel John Blake Thomas Ingles

*,* This v/as the earliest Presbyterian church in llie city of New. York. It stood on what was Stontenburgh's garden (ante p. 403:) in WaU-st.

To the Honourable peter Schuyler Esqr President of his Majesties Counciil Convened in Counciil The Memoriall of Gilbert Livingston and Thomas Smith in Relation to tlie Grant of a Charter to the presbyterian Congregation in New York -- Very Honourable