That your Petitioners intending to apply to the General Assembly of this Province for leave to bring a Bill into that Honourable House to enable them to sell and dispose of those Lands known by the name of the Manor of Fordham in the County of Westchester eitlier altogether or in parcels as they shall Judge best to and for tlie use and benefit of their said Church Did (pursuant to liis Majesty Royal Instructions relating to the passing of private Bills in this province) cause an Advertisement to be affixed on the door of the parish Church in Westchester declaring tlieir said Intentions where the same remained upwards of four Weeks successively.

Y'^our PeLliioners thcivfbre humbly pray that they may have leave to make proof to your Honor and this Honorable Board of the SLiid Advertisement behig so affixed and Remaining on the door of the said Parish Ciiurch and tliat the same may be entered in the Council Books and a Certificate thereof granted to your petitioners and your petitioners as in duty bound shall pray &<= Signed in behalf of ourselves { Henricus Boel p. t. Prceses.

& y® rest of y^ Petitioners, c Ab: Van Wyck. 21« Nov. 1753

Read in Council & granted.

New York September 27: 1753.

ADVERTISEMENT.

Publick Notice is hereby given That the Minister, Elders and Deacons, of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church in the City

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of New York, do intend to apply to the Governor, Council, and General Assembly of this Colony, for leave to bring in a Bill to enable them to sell and dispose of those Lands known by the name of the Manor of Fordham, in the County of Westchester, eitlier all together or in Parcels, as tliey shall Judge best, to and for the use and Benefit of their said Church.