Your Ex^^ys Petitioners do tlierefore most Humbly pray that your Excellency will please to approve and Encourage this pious work by signifying Such your approbation and your Petitioners as in duty bound shall Ever pray ^<'

Petrus van Driessen V. D. Prseco Idoapprobe of what Johannes Rooseboom

is desired In tlie petition Myndert Schuyler

and recommend the Same Hend" van Rensselaer to all who are concern'd Johannis Beekman

Ro: Hunter Rutger Bleecker 18 June 1714. Stevanie groesbeck

AND PLACES ADJACENT 007

FIRST ENGLISH CIIUUCH IN ALBANY.

To his Excellency Robert Hunter Esq'^ Captain General! k Governoiir in Cliief of the Provinces of New York, New Jersey &c.

Tlie humble peticon of Thomas Barclay Minister and Peter Matliews and James Dunbar the present Wardens of the Englisli Church at Albany. Sheweth -- Vnto yor Excellency that whereas the right honorable the Society for propagating of tlie gospell in forrain parts have been pleased to appoint the peticoner Tliomas Barclay their missionary for the city of Albany for the benefit of the garrison and Inliabitants there to perform divin service according to the liturgy of the Chm-ch of England, they have liitherto been necessitated to make use of a small old Ciiappel belonging to a Lutheran congregacou at unseasonable hours as by their permission the house also [being] worn out k decayd. Yo^ Excellency taking it into yo'' pious consideracon on the SV^ of May last was graciously pleased to grant to the s^ peticoners a Lycence under yo^ hand & seal to collect and receive tiie cliarity k benevolence of all good Christians within the province towards the building of a churcli or chappel for divin service in the center of the broad street called Ymkers street leading from the fibrt to the waterside between tlie end of pearl street k the small street that leads to the Lutheran Church not exceeding si sty feet in length and fourty five foot in breadth which by yo^ Excell^ys Encouragement and example has hitherto been wonderfully successfull.