Tiiat pursuant to your Escell. warrant the Sui'veyor Generall did survey & lay out for your Petit, a certaine Tract of Land on t'le West side of Hudsons River in the County of Ulster beginning on tlie Nord-side of Quaseck Creek & extend Northerly lip Hudsons River on a slreight line 200 & 19 chaines, & into the woods on that side 100 chaines, containing two thousand one hundred & ninety acres, vvliich said Tract of Land he thereby divided into nine Letts, the which are numbered from 1 . to 9. Eacb Lot containing a suitable quantity for each family to which they are appropriated, there being allowed for each head fifty acres, and 500 acres for a Glebe as by the Return of the said Survey appear.

That on the 12 of August 1714 your Excel] : in Councill was pleased to order a warrant to tlie attorney Generall to prepare a Patent for the Lands petitioned for by them according for the severall allotments expressed in the surveyor Generall's Return of the warrant of survey, but that therein a Grant be made for your Petit. Joshua Kockerthal their Minister, his heires &

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flssignes of 250 acres being tiie North part of the 500 acres laid out for a Glebe & that in lieu thereof the Land laid out for your Petitioner Joshua Kockerthal be by the said sui-vey added to the Glebe

Now in asmnch as the warrant above directed by your Excell. to the Attorney Generall to prepare the letter Patent above said, is not as yet made out, your Petit, humble crave leave to acquaint your Excell. that as they concei\e tlie said Letters Patents being ordered to be made out, for each respective Division as aforesaid in the Name ^of tliem & their respective wives & children, according to the said Surveyor Generall Return, may hereafter be a means of Disturbance and Disagreement in their respective familys with their cliiklren.