To his Excellency tlie Honorable Robert Monckton Captain General & Governor in Chief of the Province of New York & the Territories thereon depending in America Vice Admiral of the same & Major General of his Majesty's Forces, kc" &c* The Petition of Jean Carll the present Minister Peter Vallade & James Desbrosscs the present Elders and Daniel Bonnet & Charles Jandine the present Beacons of the French Protestant Church of the City of New York. Most humbly Sheweth

That a considerable Part of this Province and particularly of the City of New York, the Counties of West Chester and Richmond and a Tract called the Paltz in Ulster County have been long since settled by many of those unhappy People who flew from the Persecution in France upon the Revocation of the Edict of Nantz in 1685.

That those wlio established themselves in the City of New York were enabled by an Act of the Legislature of this Colony passed in 1703, to purchase and set apart a Lott of Ground on which in the succeeding Year they erected a decent Edifice for the pubhc Worship of Almighty God according to the usage of the French protestant Churches, and the Residue they devoted to the use of the Cemctry or Church Yard for the Interment of their Dead.

That they have ever since maintained a Succession of Ministers there, who have dispensed the Ordinances of divine Worship in the French Tongue once to a very numerous and flourishing Congregation, now indeed unhappily reduced by various Causes to a less popular Assembly.