May it please Your Excellency to grant to your Petitioners & tileir heirs his Majesty s Letters patent for the said tract of Land under Such Quitrents conditions and Restrictions as are usual & agreeable to your Excellencys instructions from his Majesty & your petitioners shall Ever pray

Jacob S Sharp Christophel Hagadoni. June ye 13th 1724

Read and referred to the Gent, of the Council or any five of them

KEPORT ON THE PRECEDING PETITION.

At a Committee of the Council held at the Council Chamber in New York June ye 13th 1724.

Present Capt Walter J

Ml' Van Dam f Doctor Colden ^ Mr Barberie ? M'^ Alexander > Ml" Harison j M^' W™ Provoost ) May it please your Excellency In obedience to your Excellencys order in Council of this dav Vol. in. 46

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referring to us the Petition of Jacob Shai-p Christopher Hagatorn and Jacob Shoemaker in behalf of themselves and others Palatines inhabitants of that part of the Mannor of Livingston formerly granted by Robert Livingston to Brigade Hunter to the use of her late Majesty her heirs and successors We humbly Report that We have Considered of the same and ai-e of opinion that the Siu'veyor General or his Deputy be ordered to Inquire of the number of Familys and Persons that are settled upon the gaid Land and that are willing to take his Majestys grant and what quantity may be proper to grant to each of them, which is humbly submitted to Yoiu- Excellency by