Livingston, W^ Smith juni",

Jno Smith, John Lasher jun""

Garr^ Noel, ^ Joseph Hallett,

Thqs Jackson, John Dunlap,

Nath' M°KinlYj Peter R. Livingston,

John Stephens, Jn^ Morin Scott.

New York 18th March 1766.

LORDS OF TRADE TO GOV. MOORE.

Whitehall Jul V 29, 17(55,

Sir

His Majesty having been pleased by an order in Council to refer to us for our Consideration and Report a Petition of the present Ministers of the presbyterian Churcli in tlie City of

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New- York praying to be incorporated by a Charier under tlie Seal of the Province of New- York for the purposes set forth in the said Petition, We think it necessary (not only from a Consideration of the Natui-e of the Petition in general but also as it refers to a like application formerly made b}^ tlie said Ministers to Lieutenant Governor DeLancy and to proceecliugs had thereupon) to send you the inclosed copy of the said Petition, desiring that you will, after having communicated it to the Council for such advice & Information as they may be able to give you upon it, report to us in the fullest manner, the present State and Condition of this Protestant Establishment, and also all the Proceedings upon the Petition alledged to have been presented in tlie administration of W' Delaiicy, and the Reasons wliy such Petition did not proceed at that Time, with your opinion whether from any particular circumstance in the present state of the Province of New- York, tliere are any objections to Complying with a Request, whioli in the general and abstracted view of it appears to us to be no ways Improper or luireasonable. We are Sir