That the aforesaid Tract, tho within the late Claim of New Hampshire, has never been patented under that Government but is free from aU Controversy, and still remains vested in the Crown -- Wherefore as well from your Benevolent Disposition, as from Your Excellency's firm atttachment to our happy Establishment the Petitioners hope That this their Request, wiU readily meet with your Countenance and approbation.

Your Petitioners therefore most humbly Pray that Your Excellency will be favourably Pleased, by his Majesty's Letters Patent, to Grant unto them and their Successors the Tract of Land above described: And That the same may be erected into

510 PAPEKS RELATING TO THE CITY OF NEW- YORK.

a Township by the name of [Kingsland] with the usual Privileges, and under tlie Terms of his Majesty's Instructions

And Your Petitioners as in Duty bound shall ever Pray kc^

Samuel AucHMUTY ^ ^ Committee ap-

David Clarkson y'''^'"' ^y, /,^."

( vestry to prefer this Benj" KisSAM. ) Petition.

New York the 17th February 1767.

REMONSTRANCE AGAINST PREACIIINrx IN ENGLISH IN THE DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH IN N. T.

To his Excellency Sir Henry Moore Baronet, Captain

General and Governor in Cflief in and over the Province

of New-York and the Territories depending thereon in

America ; Chancellor and Vice Admiral of the same ;

And to his Majesty's Honourable Coimcil of said Province

in Council Assembled.

Whereas several Persons appointed to Act, as well for

themselves as many other Members of the Reformed protestant

Dutch Church of the City of New York in North America did