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. It being sett forth in their said Petition that Joshua Cockerthall v* ho was Minister since the Surveying and making of the said Ground Plate is dead, leaving a Widow, aud small Children. And that Peter Rose another of the said Palatines for a valuable consideration has sold his right and interest in the Lott laid out for him to Biu-ger Meynders a Black Smid who lives amongst them and is a Lutheran.