I have thought it Incumbent on me to represent these unwarrantable and illegal Proceedings of the Commissioners ; and the Extravagant Claim of the Proprietors of the Tract called Minissink Patent to your Honour, That you and the Gentlemen of his Majestys Council, and other OiRcers of the Crown, with whom the King has more immediately entrusted the Care of Preserving his Rights and Revenues, may be informed thereof. All which are Nevertheless humbly Submitted by.

Y^ Honours Most Obed* humble Ser*

New York 20*^ March 1765. Alexr Golden.

ULSTER AND DUTCHESS COUNTIES. 991

PETITION OF THE EEV^ G. D. COCK.

To his Excellency Sir Henry Moore Bar' Captain General and Governor in Cliief in and over the Province of New York and the Territories depending tliereon in America, Chancellor, and Vice Admiral of the same.

The Petition of the Reverend Gerhard Daniel Cock Most humbly sheweth,

That your Petitioner is a Protestant Minister of the Gospel, and came to this Country in the Month of November one thousand seven hundred and sixty three, on the Invitation of the Dutch Congregation settled at a Place called the Camp on the East Side of Hudsons Ptiver in the County of Dutchess, in Quality of their Pastor.

That in the Exercise of his Function he has always behaved himself Peaceably and Inoffensively and endeavoured to promote the Cause of Religion and Virtue to the utmost of his power.

That for some time past an unliappy Diiference has subsisted between the Dutcli Congregation at Kingston in Ulster County, and their Minister tlie Reverend Mj" Hermanns Myer, and it being the constant and laudable Usage of the Dutch Churches in this Province whenever Disputes of this nature arise, to Invite the Neighbouring Ministers to hear the same that they may have an opportunity of Composing and Reconciling the Parties at variance, the Petitioner was called upon in tlie Month of October one thousand seven hundred and sixty four by the Elders and Deacons of the said CImrch for that purpose.