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

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Christ 1618 and 1619 with such and the liberty s and priviledges as are granted to the Minister Elders and deacons of the reformed protestant Dutch church in the city of New York or to the Minister Elders & Deacons of tlie Reformed Protestant Dutch church of the town of Kingstown in Ulster County with such variacons additions or omissions as they may have found most proper and agreeable to their present circumstances from the usage and presence of others. Provided always that the yearly income of their demesnes whereof they are now or hereafter shall become seized and possessed shall not Exceed the sum of three hundred pounds lawfull mony of the Colony of New York And you are by the Draft of the said Letters Patent to Grant and confirm to them & their successors and assigns for ever all the tenements & heridataments whatsoever whereof they are now seized and possessed to and for the sole and only proper use benefit and behoof of the aforesaid minister elders and deacons of tlie reformed protestant Dutch Church in the City of Albany their successors and assigns forever saving nevertheless the right & title of any other person or persons, body corporate and politick whatsoever to any of the aforesaid tenements or hereditaments or to any part or parts of any of them yielding and paying therefore yearly and every year forever unto Our sovereign Lord the King his heirs and successors forever the annual rent of one peppercorn on the feast of the annunciacon of the blessed Virgin Mary comonly called Lady day in lieu & stead of all other rents services dues duties and demands whatsoever the particular description and limits and boundaryes of their present demesnes are conteind in a certain schedule hereunto annexed and for yo^ so doing this shall be your sufficient Warrant Dated as above.