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.

Wherefore your Petitioners most humbly Pray His Majesties Grant and Confirmation of the aforesaid Five Hundred Acres of Land to the Present Trustees and their successors to be Chosen Pursuant to the Directions of tlie aforesaid Grant witli such further Powers and under such Regulations and Restrictions as to your Excellency and Councill shall seem Proper.

And Yom- Petitioners as in Duty bound shall Ever Fray &c.

Sept. 6th 1751.

Edmund Concklin june^', Caklass levsredge,

William Ward, Henry Smith,

Jacb wendel, William Mitchell.

James Denton, Alex*" Colden,