power Liberty Leave & Lycence to Erect & build a meeting house for the Indians in the Mohawks Country in order to y« assembling of themselves together for y^ solemn worship of God and that on any part of the Lands to them belonging as shall be found most Convenient for the purposes aforesaid Given &,<=

PETITION OF THE RECTOR &c OF S^ PETER'S CHURCH FOR A CHARTER.

To his Excellency Sir Henry Moore Baronet Governor and Commander in Chief of the Province of New York and the Territories thereon depending and Chancellor of the same &c. The Petition of the Minister Church Wardens and Vestry of S' Peters Church in the City of Albany Humbly Sheweth

That His Excellency Robert Hunter His Majesty King George the firsts Governor of tliis province on the 2pt October 1714 by Letter Patent under the Broad seal did Grant unto the Revd Thomas Barclay Peter Mathews Esq^^ and John Dunbar a certain piece of Ground therein particularly described for to erect and Build a Cliurch for publick Worsliip agreeable to the Rules and regulations of the Church of England as by Law Estabhshed, that soon after a Church was Built on the said ground and publick worship has been performed according to the mode of the Church of England. And your Petitioners conceiving it may be for the Interest and advantage of the said Church to have it Incorporated.

May it therefore please jour Excellency to Grant unto your Petitioners a Charter for tlie Incorporation of the said Cliurch in. such manner as unto your Excellency shall seem most proper. And your Petitioners shall ever pray &c