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

Harry Munro, Clerk. Christopher hegerman } Church Daniel Hewson Jun^ i Wardenj'^ John Barclay, W" Benson 18 May 1768. Read in Council & referred to a Committee. 13 July 1768. Reported and granted.

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Of Brian Nuton, Capt^ Lieutenant ; Cornelis van Ruyven Secretary and Carel van Brugge Commissary^ appointed by the Heer Director General Stuyvesant to go in a boat a second time to Oost-dorp.

[Translated from the Dutch.]

Anno 1656, 29'h Decemb"^ Having received our instructions from the Heer General we rowed out with the boat of theHon^'® Company's ship from before Fort Amsterdam on the 30 ditto, about 7 O'clock in the morning to proceed on our journey to Oostdorp, accompanied by Claes Bordingh as pilot, as the Companys Skipper was never through Hell-gate, and the Skipper of the Company's bark and a Sailor to row us thither