Slieweth unto Yo*' Excellency that on the first tuesday of ffebry 1715 At a General quarter sessions of the peace held at the city of New York the hired house of Yo'' peticoner scituate in the broad street of tliis City between the house of Jolm Michel Eyers and M"" John Spratt was registred for an anabaptist meeting house within this City. That the peticoner has it certifyed under the liands of sixteen inhabitants of good faith and credit tlmt he liad been a public preacher to a baptist congregacon within this City for four years and some of them for less. That [he I lias it certified by tlie Hon^ie Rip Van Dam Esqr. one of his Majestyes Council for the province of New York to have \ hired a house in this City from him January first 1720 only to ' be a public meeting house for the Baptists, wliich he still keeps and as he has obtained from the Mayor and Recorder of this City an ample Certificate of his good behaviour and innocent conversacon. He therefore huinbly prays May it please Yo"" Excellency

To grant and permitt this peticoner to Execute the ministe-

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riall function of a minister within this City to a baptist congregacou and to give him proteccon therein according* to His Majesty's gracious indulgence extended towards the protestants dissenting from tlie established church he being willing to comply with all what is required by the Act of toleracon from dissenters of that perswasion in great Britain & being owned for a reverend brother by other baptist teachers And as in duty bound the peticoner shall ever pray &c.