To His Excellency the Hon^'i^ George Clinton Captain Generall and Governour in Cheif of the Province of New York & Territories thereon Depending in America Vic-e Admirall of the Same and Admirall of the White Squadron of His Majesties Fleet &c. In Council The Humble Petition of the Proprietors and Inhabitants of a Tract of Land above the Highlands at a place Called Quassaick now commonly Called Newbui-gh Patent in Ulster Country. Most humbly Siieweth

That while Lord Lovelace was Governor of this Province he had promised (Pursuant to an Instruction from the late Queen Anne or a letter from the then Secretary of State) a Grant to nine Palatines of a tract of land above the Highlands at a place Called Quassaick and Accordingly the same was Surveyed by the then Surveyor Generall and laid out into nine Lotts for them with a Glebe of 500 acres for their Minister, The whole Tract Containing 2190 Acres, But nothing further was done therein diiring the hfe of Lord Lovelace, nor during the Goverment of Brigadier Hunter, But after his Departure from this Province CoU Peter Schyler then President of the Council on the Eighteenth of December 1719 by Letters Patent of that date Granted Eight of the Lotts so laid out to Eight of the said Palatines and their Famihes, and the ninth Lott to one Burgher Myndertse a Black- Smith who had purchased a Eight of one of the said Palatines And by the same Letters Patent Granted to Andries Volck and Jacob Webber and their successors for ever -- as Trustees for the ^Benefitt of a Lutheran I^Iinister to have the Care of Souls of the