Your Petitioner therefore most humble pray your Excell. would be pleaseth to order your Excellencys warrant to the Attorney Generall to prepare Letter Patent to youT Petitioners by Name Georg Loockstad, Michel Weigant, Herman Schuneman, Cliristian Henicke, Joshua Kocherthal, Peter Rose, Jacob Weber, Johannes Fisher, & Andrew Volck, for the afforesaid Tract of land according for the severall allotments by the said surveyor exprest, but not in the Name of tliem & their respective wives & children.

And that tlierein a Grant be made to your Petit. Joshua Kockerthal his heirs & assignes of such a suitable Portion of the 500 acres laid out for a Glebe on the South side thereof next

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adjoining to the lott laid out for your Petit, as to your Excell, sliall seem meet, & the remainder thereof only to be for a Glebe. And your Petitioner as in Duty bound shall New Yorck ever pray.

28th June 1718. Joshua Kockerthal.

PETITION FOR THE DISPOSAL OF THE GLEBE.

To His Excellency Robert Hunter Esqr Captain General

and Governour in Chiefe of his Majesties Province

of New York and New Jerseys & Territories thereon

depending m Ainerica & Vice Admiral of the Same in

Council.

The humble Petition of Christian Hincke on tlie Behalfe of

Sundry Palatines Settled at Quasick creek in the County

of Ulster.

Sheweth

Unto Your Excellency and the honourable Council That whereas there has been aloted to the use of the Church & Minester five hundred acres of Land upon proviso that tlie said Minester do resid and dwel with the Inhabitants at the place aforesaid and there do and perform the office and Duty of a Minester Now the present Minester utterly refusing to Comply with the Said proviso "and not having resided with the Said Inhabitants for above the Space of Nine years last past whereby they have been destitute of any Spiritual assistance from him, The said Inliabitants do therefore in most humble and submissive manner pray that the Sume of four hundred acres of Land (part ol tlie above mentioned five hundred) may be settled upon some other Minister or Teacher that shall undertake to Administer to the said Inhabitants as becomes a good and faithful Pastor and that the said four hundred acres of Land as also the other of the said five hundred acres may be setled upon the