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.

Again we are jointly and severally bound in the Sum of £350, to Coir Depeyster and M^ Bayard, in payment for the land on which the aforesaid Meeting hous is founded, which added to tlie other obligations v.e are Under, together with what we are in advance makes the Congregation in Debt to us near =£600 which under the present Circumstances are not likely to be soon Discharged, and probably yfill Continue as a long Incumbrance upon us and perhaps to posterity. M^ Mackniglit who is l)oimd with us is going for Europe, which will leave us the persons

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accomptable for payment of these Debts, together with Doctor Nicols whose unsteadiness and unfaitlifuhiess lias been frequently experienced in Divers Instances formerly, and who is likely still to be a Companion of the same Natm-e, and we are not Easy to Remain Accomptable for Debts only Entailed upon us, for the Gratifying the Humours of Some Men, to the hindering the prosperity of the Interest in Generall.