To his Excellency Sir Henry Moore Baronet, Captain Generall & Governor in Chief of the Province of New York and the Territories thereon depending in America Vice Admirall of the same kc^ In Council. The Petition of the Minister, Elders, Deacons and Trustees of the Presbyterian Church of the City of New York, according to the Westminster Confession of Faith, Catecliisms & Directory agreeable to the established Church of Scotland Most humbly sheweth That your Petitioners are informed that your Excellency was

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pleased, on the fourth Day of February Instant, to lay a Petition lately preferred by your Petitioners to the King's most Excellent Majesty for a Charter, and a Draft of the Charter they prayed for, before the Honorable tlie Board of Council for their Report thereon to your Excellency, in Pursuance of a Letter of Keference sent to youi- Excellency from the Lords Commissioners for Trade & Plantations.

And as your Excellency and the Honorable Board may justly expect to be waited upon by your Petitioners to be ascertained of the Truth of such of the Facts in the said Petition suggested as may perhaps be thought to require Proof. And your Petitioners are extremely desirous to give full Satisfaction, and to enable your Excellency to report on this Subject to their Lordships by the return of the Packet which arrived yesterday.

Your Petitioners therefore beg Leave in this Way to signify their Readiness to attend the Commands of your Excellency and the Honorable Board, and most humbly Pray if there are any Facts not so notorious as to require Proof, that a Note of them may be signified by the Clerk of the Council, and a short Day appointed for your Petitioners to exhibit the evidence that may be desired.