580 PAPERS RELATING TO THE PALATINES.

the yearly rent of one peppercorn if the same be legally demanded wliich ueverthelesse is liumbly submitted. By Your Honours Most Obed' Humble servants

A : D : Peyster New-York Dec^ W^ 1719. Gerard Eeekman

Rip Van Dam John Barberie A. D. Philipse T Byerly.

FERRY BETWEEN NEWBURGH AND FISHKILL

To the Honourable George Clarke Esqr. Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief of the Province of New York and Territories thereon depending in America &c : In Council The Humble Petition of Alexander Colden of Ulster County. Sheweth.

That your Petitioner is Interested in & Entituled unto part of a Tract of 21 90 Acres of Land in Ulster County formerly granted to Andries Volck and Jacob Webber beginning on the North Side of Quassick Creek and Extends northerly up Hud sons River upon a Streight Line 219 Cliains. That your Petitioner is Settled & has made Considerable Improvements on part of the Said Lands. That as there are now many Settlements on both Sides Hudsons River aforesaid, Persons frequently have Occasion to Cross over from one Side of the said River to the other, But are often obliged to wait a Considerable time for passage over the same, there being no Ferry yet Estabhshed on Either Side thereof That your Petitioner is willing to provide proper Boats and ^persons Constantly to attend for the Transportation of Passengers Horses and Goods a Cross the Said River to & from the aforesaid Tract of Land now Commonly Called New Burgh Patent. And has obtained Liberty of the Owners of the land on the Easterly