remain so fixed tliercon Monday after the fourth Sunday next following the day the said Deponent Joost Vredenburgh put up & fixed the same as aforesaid.

Sworn the 20^'' day of ) Joost Vreuenburg

; November 1753 ) Hendrick Nichelsen

Before me Benjemen Corsen.

Jn" Chambers Sworn the 21 ^^ day of November 1753 Before his Honor the Governor in Council . • r, G^ Banyar D. Clk. Con.

PETITION FOR LEAVE TO COLLECT FUNDS FOR BUILDING A NEW MINISTER'S HOUSE AT NEW ROCHELLE.

To the Honorable Cadwallader Golden Esq' Lieutenant Governor & Commander in Chief of the Province of New York & Territories Thereon Depending In America &<= A Petition of Sundry of the Inhabitants of New Rochell Belonging to the Church of England.

S"" the Society for Propogation of the Gospel In forcing Parts have Been So Charitable as To Appoint M*" Houdin -- a trench Refuge a Gentleman of a Good Character Successor to their I^ate Worthy Missionary at New Rochell the Reverend M' Stoupe -- In Consideration of which Particular Regard they Require and Insist that the People at New Rochell Should Do their Utmost To make M"^ Houdin a Comfortable Support and that they Should Immediately Put the Parsonage House In Good Repair We Are Ready & Willing To Exert Ourselves To the Utmost According To Our Abilities, But To those that Are Acquainted with the Circumstances of the People Profesing the Church at New Rochell It will Appear To Require the Utmost Exertion of Our Abilities To Efford that Necessary Support To M' Houdin that the Society Expect & Require & If We Should Be Obliged to Raise four Hundred Pounds To Build a New Parsonage House, The Old Being So Decayed that It Is thought By No Means Worth Repairing Especially at this Burthensome Time We have the Greatest Reason To fear that It w^ill Be So Extremely heavey