His funeral sermon wa« preached on the J3th Octob., 1751, by his successor the Rcvd Lambertus de Ronde, who had served the Church in Surinam for four years and a half, and had been calleil to assist the Revd Mr Dubois only some months before the latter's death. This Sernr.on, from which we have gleaned the above particulars, was printed in N. Y. by Hendricus de Foreest, anno 1752, and is to be found in the N. Y. State Library. Ed.

IX.

PAPERS

RELATING TO THE

PALATIIES

AND TO THK

Sksl 0(ttlcment of NiJitiburgl),

ORANGE COUNTY.

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ORDER OF COUNCILL FOR NATURALIZING AND SENDING CERTAIN PALATINES TO NEW YORK.

At the Court of Kensington yc iQth of May 1708 Present, The Queens Most Excell^ Ma^'*' in Councill. Upon reading this day at the Board a Report from the Lords Comm'-s of Trade and Plantations dated the 28th of Aprill last in the Words Following Viz*

May it please Your Maty Having in obedience to your Matys Commands Signified to us by the Rt Honbie ^r Secretary Boyle considered the Petition of Joshua Kockerthal the Evangelical Minister in behalf of himself and severall poor Lutherans come hither from the Lower Palitinat in Germany praying to be Transported to some of your Matys plantations in America ; We humbly take leave to represent to your Majty that they are in number forty one: Viz* Ten Men, Ten Women and Twenty one Children, That they are very necessitous and in the utmost want not having at present any tiling (but what they get by Charity :) to subsist themselves.