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.

That by an Instrunrent dated the fifteenth day of August in the Tear of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and thirty two, under the Seal of the General Assembly of the Church ot Scotland, and signed by Niel Campbell, Principal of the University of Glasgow and Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland and Commission thereof ; James Nesbit, one of the Ministers of the Gospel at Edinburgli, Moderator of the Presbytery at Edinburgh, Wilham Hamilton Principal of the University of Edinburgh, James Smith Professor of Divinity therein, and "William Grant Advocate Procurator for the Church of Scotland for the time being, they then did, pursuant to an Act of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, dated the 8^'^ day of May in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and thirty one, empowering and appointing them to grant those Presents, declare that, notwithstanding the aforesaid Eight made to them and their Successors in office, they were desirous, that the aforesaid Building and Edifice and Appurtenances thereof be preserved for the pious and religious Purposes for which the same were designed ; and that it should be free and lawful to the Presbyterians tlien residing or that should at any time thereafter be resident in or near the aforesaid City of New York in America, or others joining with them to