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

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Egbertse Dewitt Deacons of Wawarsink, and Andries Bevier and Benjamin Bevier Kirk Masters of Wai-wasink. Humbly sheweth

Tliat this Province was originally settled by Emigrants from the United Provinces subject to the States General in Europe, many of whom set themselves down in the said County of Ulster, and their Descendants have long since planted the Churches abovenamed, and have decent Edifices in which the Worship of God is carried on according to tlie Usages of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Churches of the United Provinces in Europe.

That the said Churches of ]\'Iarbletown, Rochester and Wawarsink each enjoy small Real Estates given by well disposed Persons for the Maintenance of the Worship of God, and the members of the same being unable at present to support more than ono Minister thro' the Discouragement to farther Benefactions tor want of Corporate Powers to hold Estates to pr .Misuses & preserve and hand them down to Posterity secure against any secular Applications of the same ; And being very desirous of the privilege of an Incorporation so often granted to Episcopal Churches and other Dutch Churches of theii* Perswasion both in this and the Province of New Jersey.