Your Petitioners who appeal with the utmost Confidence to the whole Government for the Fidelity and Loyalty of the People of their Perswasion, most humbly pray your Excellency to grant them His Majesty's Letters Patent under the Great Seal of this Province creating them a Body politic and corporate in Deed and in Name by the Name and Style of The Minister Elders and Deacons of the Reformed Protestant United Dutch Churches of Marbletown, Rochester and Wawarsink ; and that they and their Successors may thereby be enabled to acquire and hold a competent Real Estate and injoy such other Power and Privileges as may be necessary for the pious Purposes aforesaid nearly similar to those granted to the Low-Dutch Protestants of the Cities of New York and Albany, and Townships of Kingston and Schenectady and other Places to be specified in a Draft of a Charter whicli they beg Leave hereafter to present -- Or that your Excellency would be pleased to grant them such other aid in the Prosecution of the laudable Design abovementioned as to your

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Excellency shall seem meet : And your Petitioners presuming upon the Wisdom, Generosity & Impartiality of the Government under which they live will ever pray kc^.

D. Ro-MEYN Minister ;i ,0" Behalf of

T r> # themselves and

Levi Pawling f the Rest of tho

Jacob HoRNBEEK ^ Petitioners by

JOHANNIS BeVIER 3 iliipowereZ ***

New York 11 th Nov^ 1766.

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