Province of ] Willijim Ward of Ulster County in the said New York \ Province Yeoman and Margaret his wife both of full age being Duly Sworn upon the Holy Evangelist of Almighty God Depose & say, that they very well remember Andries Volk & Jacob Webbers tlie First Trustees of the Glelje at or near a place Called Quassaick in Ulster County mentioned in the before written affidavit of Samuel Morell That upwards of Twenty years ago the said Andries Volk & Jacob Webbers removed to the Province of Pensilvania and that after their Removal no other Trustees chosen for tlie said Glebe untill the twenty third day of June in the year of our Lord one Thousand seven hundred and forty seven when tlie Iniiabitants of tlie Tract of Land Granted to the said Andries Volk & Jacob Webbers (kii Trust for themselves and other Palatines) by Letters Patent Dated the eighteenth Day of December one tliousiind seven Hmidred and nineteen being males above the age of Twenty one years assembled upon the said Glebe and by a majority of vutes

598 PAPERS RlilLATING TO THE PALATINES.

Chose Alexander Coldeu aud Richard Albertson to ]>e Trustees of the said Glebe according to the Directions of tlie said Grant and these Deponents further say That all the said Palatines to whom the said Tract was Granted or their Descendants have sold & Disposed of their rights in the said Grant & as tliey verily believe to English Protestants and that not one person professing the Lutheran Religion now Resides upon any part of the said Tract except This Deponent Margaret Ward who was formerly ontitulcd to Fifty Acres of the said Tract wdiicii tliese Deponents long since sold & Disposed of and the said Margaret Ward further saith That she is now willing and Desirous to Conform to tlie Cliuroh of England as by Law Established Sworn this 23^ of Sept^ember William Waro