ment will not suffer those to remain cloathed with the Authority of tlie Law, who arbitrarily pervert their Power to partial & Illegal purposes, to the advancement of their own private Interest and sinister Views, and to the oppression and abuse of others ; and as he presumes that the Ministers of the Blessed Gospel who demean themselves peaceably and worthily are entitled to the protection of the Government, and ought to be secured in the exercise of their Function, he humbly Prays that the Conduct of the said Justices may be enquired into ; And if they shall be found guilty of the Matters charged against them by the Petitioner, which he is ready to prove, that they may be remoyed from their Ofiices, or otherwise dealt with as the Law directs.

Gerhard Daniel Gock 1766 May 17: Read in Council & Order thereupon.

PETITION FOR A CHARTER FOR CERTAIN DUTCH CHURCHES IN ULSTER CO.

To His Excellency Sir Henry Moore Baronet, Captain General and Governor in Chief of the Province of New York and the Territories thereon depending in America Vice Admiral of the same kc^ &ca

In Council, The Petition of Dirk Romeyn Minister of the Churches of Marbletown, Rochester and Wawarsink in Ulster County, Jacob Haasbrouck, Solomon Van Wagenen and Levi Pauling Elders of Marbletown, Abraham konstable Hendrick Smith, Frederick Shorter and Cornelius Tack Jun'' Deacons of Marbletown, and Johannes Smith and Ilrie Tack, Kirk-Masters of Marbletown ; Nicolas Keter, Jacob Hoornbeek, Dirk Hoornbeek & Ehas Depuy Elders of Rochester, Frederick Shenigh, Isaiah Robinson, Cornelius Oosterhoudt and Benjamen Merkell Deacons of Rochester, Lodewyck Schoonmaker and Jacobus Bush Jim^ Kirk Masters of Rochester ; Johannes Gerardus Hardenbergh and Johannes Bevier Elders of Wawarsink, Stephen Dewitt and John Vol. hi. 63