That sometime after the Passing the said Grant aU the said Palatine Familys sold their several Lotts in tlie said Tract to your Petitioners and those under whom they claim, and they with the aforesaid Trustees Removed into the County of Albany or some other parts And your Petitioners further shew Tjiat the said Trustees being so Removed Tlie Male Inhabitants of the said Tract above the Age of twenty one Years on the Twenty Third Day of June in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty seven met upon the said Glebe Land and by Majority of Voices Elected your Petitioners Alexander Golden and Richard Albertson Trustees of said Glebe Lands who took tlie Possession thereof. But as yoiu* Petitioners are all English Protestants the Grant of the said Glebe if Confined to the use of a Lutheran Minister only would be entirely useless : But yom- Petitioners are Advised and Conceive That

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if the Palatines had Continued on the aforesaid Tract and They or Their Descendants had Conformed to the Church of England They might have Called and Chosen a Minister of the Churcli of England to have the Care of souls there, who would in that case have had the benefit and use of the aforesaid Glebe Lands. And that if the said Palatines could have done so, Consequently his Majesties Natural! Born Subjects who now by purchase Succeed the said Palatines in the right they had in the same Lands, may do the same. And your Petitioners Do also further shew That the Trustees of the said Glebe Lands having power by the said Grant to Lease the said Lands for no Longer Term then seven years Prevents the same being improved or of that advantage tliat it might be, had they power to Grant three Hundi-ed Acres thereof for ever in acre Lotts Reserving no le^s then five Shillings for each acre as a Rent For Ever Which Rent would in Part Su])port a Protestant Minister and Schoolmaster to have the Care of Souls and the Instruction of the Children of your Petitioners and the neighboming Inhabitants, and the Remaining Two Hundred Acres thereof would be suilicient for settlements for such Minister and Sclioolmaster, and had your Petitioners Power to Hold a Fair on the said Lands on the Second Tuesdays in April and October annually it would not only be an advantage to your Petitioners, but to all the Inhabitants of that and the Neighbouring Counties.