That sundry Protestants of their perswasion who came over into tliis Province from Great Britain and Ireland, together with others Lihabitants of the said City of New York, many years ago entred into the Design of settling a Church and Congregation in the said City of New Y'ork, for the publick Worship of God according to the usage of the reformed Protestant Presbyterian Churches ; and that, for that Purpose, John Nicoll, Patrick McKnight, Gilbert Livingtoii, Tiiomas Smitli and divers otlier well disposed Persons, with the Assistance of the Charitable Coutri- VoL. III. 32

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butions, obtain'd from the Inhabitants of the said City, the Colony of Connecticut, and the Church of Scotland, purchased the Ground herein after mentioned, and on part thereof erected an Edifice or Church for the Publick Worship of God.

That the Fee Simple of the said Ground being by sundry Mesne Conveyances vested in James Anderson, the first Minister of the said Church, the said John Nicoll, and in Joseph Liddle and Thomas Ingliss, the same on or about the sixteenth day of May in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and thirty, was by Indenture under their Hands and Seals conveyed in due form of Law, to the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland and the Commission thereof, the Moderator of the Presbytery of Edinburgh, the Professor of Divinity therein, the Procurator and Agent for the Church of Scotland for the time being, and their Successors in office, as a Committee of the General Assembly of the said Church of Scotland.