Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. III
or any of their successors It shall and may be lawfull to and for all the Inliabitans of the same Tract of Land being Males and above the Age of twenty one Years to assemble and meet together at any time and times hereafter upon some part of the Glebeland, and by Majority of voice to elect and chuse other Trustee or Trustees in the Room or stead of such Trustee or Trustees so dying removing or otherwise disabled, which Trustee or Trustees so cliosen hereafter shall be Trustee or Trustees of the same Glebeland to all Intents or Purposes as if tlie have been herein nominated, for the Ordering or Management of the said Glebeland, and have and shall have full Power and Authority to lease or grant the same Glebeland or any part thereof at a certain Rent, and to have and receive the same Rent to and for the use aforesaid -- Provided allwais that the said Trustees for the Time being shall not lease the same or any part thereof for longer Term for one Term, then the Term or space of Seven fears And that they the said Trustees for the time being shall alwais take to their Assistance in the doing thereof the Lutheran Minister of that Parish for the time being if there bee any Incumbent. And Wee do further by these presents grant, that the said Trustees and their Successors for ever hereafter are and shall bee one Body corporate and politic in Fait and Name, by the Name of the Trustees of the Palatin Parish by Quassaik, and by that name be and shall be forever hereafter capable and able in the Law to sue and be sued, answer and be answered unto, defend and be defended, in any Coui't of Law an Equity within the province of New York --