support they cannot be capable to make any settlem* on the land whereon they are placed but must Desert tlie same and betake themselves to some other manner of Providing a maintenance whereby the End of her Majestys bounty and Charity will be wholly frustrated It is therefore their request to Collo Thomas Wenham tliat he do provide a needfull & necessary support for the said Minister and y"^ six. and Twentj- other Germans of lus Congregation untill the expiration of the said Twelve months from their arrivall here or untill her Majestys pleasure be known herein because the Revenue of this Province is Expired and besides the Go vernm* greatly in Debt.

In Comicil, June 18. 1709. Ordered that Mr. Van Dam Mr. Barbaric & Capt. Provost b© a Comittee to Inquii-e into the Disputes between y« Germans lately sent to this Province by her Majesty & y' Mr. Vesey and Mr. Du Bois assist them on their said Inquire concerning their Rehgious Disputes the times places of y^ meeting of which Committee is to be appointed by ye said Mr. Van Dam Mr. Barbaric k Capt Provost or any two of them.

In Council] June 21. 1709.

Mr. Barberie from the Committee to Inquire into the Disputes between the Germans sent to this Province by her Majesty Reported that they have Inquired into those relateing to their Religion assisted by Mr. Vesey & Mr. Du Bois and that nothing of the ahgations suggested against those called Pietists have been proved before tliem --