Brigadeer Hunter to the use of her Late Majesty her heirs & successors and to which was also referred the report of the Surveyor General pursuant to a Reference to him from the Councill Have Considered of the Same and are of opinion that your Excellency may Grant to Jacob Sharpe Joliannes Heiner Johannes Kolman & Christophel Hagendorn their heirs & assigns six thousand acres butted & bounded as in the petition fourty acres of land for a Glebe for the use of a palatijie minister for the time being who is likewise to teach school wliich is by the trustees aforsaid to be Laid out of the unimproved Lands and the remainder in trust for themselves & the other palatine heads of familys inhabiting the said Six thousand acres To hold to Each of the said Inhabitants liis & her heirs & assigns so much of the Said Land as is improved & in Every of their actuall possessions And to hold all tlie Lands unimproved within the bounds aforesaid in Common to them y heirs & assigns to be divided amongst Every of the said inhabitants Share & Share aUke and that witli the usual Quitrents Clauses conditions and reservations which is nevertheless humbly Submitted by

Your Excellencys Most obedient

& most humble serves

By order of the Committee

Ja: Alexander Chau*man.

induce the Assembly to pay certain debts which Mr. L. claimfd to have against the public. It was previous to this, however, that Livingston introduced his Lordship to that "most abandoned Villain" Capt. Kidd, between whom &. Mr. Livingston on the one part and Bellomont on the other, an agreement had been entered into to equip a privateer on shares for their mutual advantage.! Kidd shortly after deceived his associates and brought down trouble on all those who had been unfortunately, though innocently, connected with him.