That a Petition the 11*^ of May a. c. being brought in, from Your Excellency's petitioner Michael Christian Knoll and his Consistory, in Cause and for 500 Acre^ of Land for a Glebe at Quassaik Creek in the Highlands

That your Excellency had been pleased ; more points of Declaration should be laid before Your Excellency

In Obedience of which we lay dowe Litra A. Shewing the proper terms of his Majesty most gracious

Letters patents concerning those 500 Acres. Litra B. In what manner our Ministers of New York have

observed the Service of Worship from time to time.

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Litra C. By what Autliority our Ministers are gone to Serve at Quassaiii namely,

1. By Indulgence of our Honourable Governours

2. By Corporation of the Trustees there, with our Church in N. York

Litra D. An Extract of Circonstances, in what Manner, they now there (upon the 2190 Acres of Land :) living Inhabitans, English Presbyterians and Dutch Reformed have taken Possession of the Church and Church Land there. Whereof it appears, that Birgert Mynders, our one Trustee having sold his Land too, he being the last of they, there settled Lutheran Inhabitans on the 2190 Acres, and he being removed at the Walenkill, and our second Lutheran Trustee being one of our Tenants upon the Glebe : the new Inhabitans think to be master of the Glebe, and have lockt up the Church there, meaning that your most humble petitioner, nor the said old Trustees, not have any Eight at the Glebe, for want of Lutheran settled Inhabitans upon the 2190 Acres, althougli there live as Tenants upon the Glebe and there about, on both Side of the River, more then thirty Families of our Protestant Confession, and higher at Bacliwaik a thirty Families more.