PAPERS RELATING TO WESTCHESTEH COtiNTY. 953

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.

City of } ^^ Joost Vredenburgh of the Manor of Fordham in New York ) 'the County of Westchester Cordwainer Hendrick Magielse of the same place Farmer and Benjamin Corsen of the same place Farmer all of full age being duly sworn on tlie holy Evangelists of Almighty God severally Depose and say as follows The said Joost Vredenburgh Deposeth that on Saturday the 29^^ day of September last he put up and fixed a printed Advertisement of wJiich the above written is a true Copy on the Door of the Parish Church of Westchester and on Monday the 8th day of October following saw tlie same remaining there in the manner he had fixed the same and that two Sundays had intervened from the day he so put the same up and the said S^h day of October, And that the Deponent the third Sunday after the said Advertisement was so put up sent the said Hendrick Magielse to Westchester to see if the said Advertisement remained as the Deponent had fixed the same on the Door of the Church aforesaid. The said Hendrick Magielse Deposeth that he was sent on a Sunday by the said Joost Vredenburgh to see if t1ie said Advertisement remained fixed on the Door of the Parisli Church of Westchester as aforesaid and that he found the same remaining tliere in the afternoon of that day and read the same in the words or to the efiect of the Copy thereof above written and that as to the time he so went to Westchester he believes it must have been the same Sunday on which tlie said Joost Vredenburgh herein declares it to have been because he never except at this Time went on the like occasion to Westchester, And the said Benjamin Corsen Deposetli that he saw the said Joost Vredenburgh fix up the Advertisement aforesaid on the Door of the said Parish Church of Westchester which he believes was on or about the 29^^ day of September last And tliat lie saw the same