In pursuance of yc Honours reference made in Council the 17*ii of this Instant of the peticon of Andrew Volck and Jacob Webbers of the 17'^ December 1719 in behalf of themselves and the other palatins therein menconed We have perused inquired into and considered the same as also the letter of the then E* Honorable M'^ Secretary Boyle to the then Lord Lovelace in his lifetime of the 10ti» of August 1708 Governour of New York by her late Majesty of blessed memory her speciall directions in their favour, As likewise the return of the survey Card and ground platt of the late Surveyor Generall of A certain tract of land on the West side of Hudsons river above the high lands in the County of Vlster neer to a place called Quassaick containing two thousand one hundred and ninety acres laid out into nine lotts for the said palatins and a glebe of five hundred acres for a Lutheran minister and his successors forever. It being set forth in the s^ peticon, that their minister Joshua Cockershall Deceased for whom one of the said lotts is laid out, hath left a widdow & children Who survive him, and that Peter Rose, another of the said palatins for whom another lott of the said land of one hundred acres is laid out, hath sold and alienated

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all the right title ami interest on the same to one Burger Meyiuleis a blacksmith that lives amongst them for a valuable consideracon. And are of opinion A warrant be directed by yy Honour to the Commissioner for executing the office of tlie Attorney Generall for the dravi^ingof a grant of the same tract of land pursuant to tlie said draft or ground plot beginning on the north side of quassaick creek and extending northerly up Hudsons river upon a straigjit line two hundred and ninteen chains and into the woods from Hudsons river at botli ends & the said whole length one hundred chains conteining two thousand one hundred and ninety acres in manner following viz^ lott N" 1 by Quassaick creek, conteining two hundred and fifty acres to George Lockstedt and Anna Elizabetha his wife, Margaratha, Anna Sarah and Catharina their three children that is to say to each of them fifty acres thereof and tlieir heirs and assigns forever respectively.