said Congregation by Several mean Conveyances now stands seized and possessed of Scituate lyeing and being within tlie City and Corporation of Albany being particularly mentioned In a Schedule or List hereunto annexed, may in the said Patent of Incorporation be Confirmed unto the said Minister Elders and Deacons and to their Successors for Ever Vnder the Yearly lient or acknowledgement of one Pepper Corn (if demanded) Saveing nevertheless the Right and Title of all manner of Persons Body Politick and Corporate to the aforesaid Lands and Tenements or any part or parcell thereof all which is nevertheless humbly submitted by

Your Honours Most Obed' humble Servants

A D Peyster Nev Fork Aug. the 8^^ 1720. R Walter

Gerard: Beekman ' ' ' John Barberie

A. Philipse

ORDER TO PREPARE A PATENT.

By the Hon^'® Peter Schuyler Esq"* President of his Majesties Councill for the Province of New York in Conncill You are hereby authorized and required to prepare the Draft of Letters patent for incorporating the Reformed protestant Dutch Church in tlie City of Albany and making of them one body corporate and politick to tliem and their Successors forever by the name of tlie Ministers Elders and Deacons of the reformed ProtestaniDutch church in the City of Mhany the reverend Petrus van Dricsen being their present minister Johannes Cuyler Johannes Roseboom Henry van Ranselaer and William Jacobseu van Deursen being the present Elders Rutgert Bleecker Volkerst van Veghten Myndert Roseboom and Dirck. Ten Broeck being the present Deacor s of the said Church for the ffree use and exercise of their religion and worship according to the Canons rules institutions & church Government established by the Nationnll s>ixv.J .. ' )ft r.i Holland in the years of Our Lord