Therefore as in the former Petition Your Excellencies ordering and Will is humbly prayd for, that the said 500 Acres of Laud may be granted unto our Church in New York for the Use Benefit and Behoof of the Families round about Quassaik, although the not are settled Inhabitans upon the 2190 Acres, that they may there Congregate at Quassaik Glebeland or upon any conveniant Place, and may have theu- old and own Trustees under them in Corporation with tlie Chm-ch of New York, in the End they may perforrae their Sacred Service without En vie Hatred and Scandal. And we shall ever pray &c Michael Christian Knoll Protestant

Lutheran Minister in N. York Chajiel Beekman George Petterson JoiiANN David wolff. New York y 5th of October 1749.

1749 Ocf 29. Read & Council of opinion that nothing can be done on this petition.

PAPERS RELATING TO THE PALATINES. 587

EXHIBITS ACCOMPANYING PRECEDING PETITIONS.

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Copie of his Majesty's Letters Patents concerning the 500 Acres of a Glebe Land by the Quassaik Creek in Ulster County. George by the Grace of God King of Great Brittain France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith &c: To all to whom these Present shall come Greeting. Whereas our loving subjects Andries Volck and Jacob Webber by their Petition, presented to oui- Trusty and Well beloved Colonell Peter Schuyler, President of our Councill for our Province at New York, in behalf of themselves and others originally Palatines have prayed to have our grant by Letters Patents under the Great Seal of tlie Province of New York for a certain Tract of Land in Ulster County Scituated on the West side of Hudsons River above the Highlands near to a Place called Quassaik, containing two thousand one hundred and ninety acres, which Petition the seventeeth Day of December instant was read and reserved to a Committee of our Councill for the same Province who thereupon on the eighteenth Day of December instant did report, that they had inquired into and considereth of the suggestions of the said Petition a Letter from the Right Honourable M' Secretary Boyle, to the Lord Lovelace Governoui- of this Province of the Tenth of August Seventeen Hundred and eight in their favour, by Her late Majesty Queen Anne (of blessed memory,) Speciall Directions as likewise the Survey or Ground- Plat of the Surveyor General of the same Land laid out by the Directions of our Trusty and Well beloved His Excellency Brigadier Hunter before liis Departure for Great Brittain into nine Lotts for the said Palatines witli a Glebe of Jive hundred Acres thereof^ for the use of the Lutheran Minister and his successors forever.