Much Honoured, we cannot but Esteem this a very great Greivance We always have exerted our Selves in person and Estate according to our Abilities for advancing tliis Work, but now believe it under very Languishing Circumstances during M'^ Andersons Aboad among Us, Whom We cannot but think after more than two years triall, very Unsuitable for advancing our Interest in New York because severall that joyned with Us at first have forsaken tlie Congregation upon his Acco' and we are also fully perswaded he has not been Estabhshed among us by very just and honorable Methods, as we are able if the Honourable Councill pleases to give a particular information. And the Grant of a Charter upon the Terms desired will We Conceive Expose Us to tlie Temper of these men, who probably will plead their priviledge in Opposition to the bringing in of another Minister tliat may be more acceptable than M^" Anderson, and if by virtue of such a Grant they can exclude Us, we have no Reason to expect any favour from their hands.

Therefore We hiunbly beg your Honours to Consider how great a Hardship this will be upon Us who have born the Bur den and Heat of the Day, to be turned of without so much as the priviledge of bringing in a Minister whom we may Sit witli pleasure and Delight especially Considering we tliink our Selves (notwithstanding all the Advantages that have been taken against us) very little inferiour either in Number or Quality to them who by their Unfair proceedings have brought in M"" Anderson.