Feet and in Length extending from the Front on I)oth sides to Little Queen Street on the Easterly Side one hundred & fifty four Feet and on the Northwesterly Side one himdred and fifty Seven Feet and one Hali' Foot English Measure and that the said Hou^e and Lot or Parcel of Ground in the Township of Breucklln are situated near the Ferry on Nassau Island containing ' in Breadth Eighty Feet & ten Inches fronting the Road from the City Ferry to Breucklin Church & the same in the Rear, and in Length on both Sides one himdred and twenty five feet all English Measure, and are bounded Southeasterly by Land now or late belonging to the Widow Middagh & Northwesterly by the Land formerly of Hans Bergen.

That }'our Petitioners who' do most cordially exult in the late Successes of his Majesty's Arms, hope their Congregation will speedily grow numerous by foreign Accessions, and are extremely desirous to secure the little Estate they now enjoy & transmit it to tiieir Posterity for the pious Ends for which it was originally given.

And as the French Protestants in general may boast of the most inviolable Fidelity to all those indukent States & Powers who' protected them from the merciless Page of their Popish Persecutors -- as your Petitioners in particular are the Descendants of a People who', suffered the greatest Hardships & flew from their native Country to preserve the Purity of the Christian Faith and Worship.

As tliey tiatter themselves that a Fi-ench protestant Church ia this City may invite Forreigners of their Perswasion to come over and settle here increase the number of useful Inhabitants & be a Means to reclaim the Kings popish Subjects in Canada who' will visit these Parts from the Errors, Idolatry & Superstition of the Churcli of Rome & thtis facilitate tlieir hearty Submission to the British Government firmly confiding tiierefore in your Excellency's Generosity to aU Protestants who' are good Subjects & being perswaded that the zeal for the Public Interest whicli has so often induced you to expose your Life in the most hazardous Euterprizes will engage your Excellency's approbation of any Measure that may conduce to the common utility & the maintenance of the protestant Religion, Youi' Petitioners do