AFFIDAVIT OF PETER HERING. Peter Hering of full age being duly sworn on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God deposeth and saith That on Sunday the 18th day of September One Thousand Seven hundred and nine he being then at the Dutch Church in Bruyklandt upon Long Island with one Abraham Kettletas & several others, where he this deponent did see and hear Mr. Antonides a Dutch minister confirm two Elders & one Deacon or one Elder and two Deacons of the Dutch Congregation of the said Bruycklandt, and further this deponent saith not. New York September 24, 1709. Sworn before me, Ebenezer Willson, Mayor. Pietre Hering. Doc. Hist. N. Y. Vol. iil. pp. 100, 101. COUNCIL JOURNAL OF NEW YORK. Confirming Land to Episcopal Church. 1709, Sept. 26. An Act confirming a certain grant made to the Rector and inhabitants of the City of New York in communion of the Church of England as by law established, being read twice, is committed to the gentlemen of this Board, or any five of them. 289. Passed, 289. Sent to the Assembly, desiring their concurrence, 289. PETITION OF THE REV. JOSHUA KOCHERTHAL. [Sept. ? 1709?] To the Right Honorable Richard Ingoldesby Esq., Lieutenant Governour and As also to Her Majesties most Honourable Council etc. Most Humbly Sheweth: That all his endeavouring hitherto bestowed and applyed cannot meet with an effect answerable to his expectations to find but the utmost necessary expences to the building of his house and regulating his settlement upon the land assigned to him, being besides advised by Mr. Kokerell Secretary that he could not (after the latter end of this month of June) continue any further with the procuring and payment of wood and houserent, in consideration he had fully made up and surrendered all the accounts concerning our company and their settlement: wherefore your Honour's most humble Petitioner humbly undertakes to beseech your Honour's Generosity, to be graciously pleased, to settle upon him a further continuance of the said Assistance of Firewood and Houserent (like Mr. Kokerell hath hitherto done) untill Her Majesties Royal Most gracious Resolution concerning my subsistance may be known. Your Honor's most humble Petitioner is in duty bound to acquaint your Honours that he intends to transport himself to London by this favorable opportunity with your Honour's gracious leave, to acquire the easier and sooner by Her most sacred Majesty as well as Her most Gracious Ratification of what hitherto is done in favor of him and his Company, as also her most Clement Royal Resolutions con 1709 1709 cerning his settlement for the future. In a most respectful manner therefore he Implores your Honour's tender Benignity to be most favorably pleased, to procure a free Transport for him, in one of Her Majesty's ships, in Consideration he is not able to find the transport Charges himself by his present circumstances. Your Honour's most humble Petitioner takes the opportunity, most humbly to assure your Honour's, most humbly and submissively to endeavor to acquire not only her most Glorious Majesties most gracious Ratification of the said Transport, but also to acknowledge this your Honour's Extraordinary Favour with an immortal thankfullness, as in duty being bound. Your Honour's Most humble and dutifull and most Joshua Kocherthal. CHURCH OF New York. In Consistory: The Poor House, in the Schape Wytye, which was sold to Isaac Kip, was deeded to him. - Lib. B. 41. MINORITY REPORT OF DIFFICULTIES IN KINGS COUNTY; Ocт. 6, 1709. [See SEPT. 15, 1709.] To the Honourable Coll. Richard Ingoldsby Lieutenant Governor & Commander in Chief in & over her majesties Provinces of New York & New Jersey & Vice Admirall of the same in Council. In obedience to an order of this board formerly made whereby wee the Subscribers & others were appointed to Examine & Inquire into and heare the Petition of the Elders & Deacons of the Dutch Reformed Churches of Breuk Land Flatbush & New Utreght in behalfe of Mr. Antonides on the subject matter of the said Petition as also Mr. Freeman and others Concerned in the said affaire & to make report thereof to this board wee the Subscribers conceiving it our duty, do most humbly certify and Report this our opinion Viz. that the said Mr. Freeman is Justly & Legally called & Entitled to the ministry of the said Churches of Breuk Land Flatbush New Utreght and Boswyck and that the said Mr. Antonides is not legally called thereto for the Reasons Following First that the Persons whoe pretend to haue Called Mr. Antonides were not at that time the Elders & Deacons of the said Churches according to ye Rules & Methods prescribed by the Synod of Dort for the Government of the Dutch Reformed Churches, they having continued as such Some three years, Some four years, whereas by the Constitution of the said Synod they could haue continued but two years. Secondly, that the call on which Mr. Antonides came over is Expressed to bee made by a Generall towne meeting (which appears to haue been the usual way in Such Casses) and that appears utterly false by the Examinations, for that the pretended authority for making that call appears not to be given in a publiq meeting, but to be obtained Privatly & Clandestinely by Procuring Subscriptions in Going from house to house & there using false Insinuations concerning Mr. Freeman. Thirdly, that the said pretended call mentions the having obtained the Governors License, & aprobation for making the said call, whereas it appears by the oath of the Lord Cornbury then Governor & Thire own confession that the Lord Cornbury, did not give any License, to make that call, Fourthly, that on the contrary it appears that Mr. Freeman was called by a * generall Towne Meeting Publiqly assembled (as has alwales been Customary) for which the Express License & aprobation of the Lord Cornbury then Governour had been first obtained. Fifthly, that the having a License from the Governour was Esteemed necessary even by Mr. Antonides himselfe & those that side with him, Since both he & they frequently aplyed to obtain Such a License; as appears by Seaverall letters to the Late Lady Cornbury, & Mrs. Peartree, under the hand of the said Antonides & of the said pretended Elders for the truth of which wee the subscribers refer ourselves to the Examinations & the Respective papers produced at the taking thereof But notwithstanding the right wee conceive the said Mr. Freeman has to the said Churches, Yet as Mr. Freeman and those of his side haue out of a Christian Principle for pease Sake & to avoid all further Differences in the Said Churches offered to Divide Equally the pains & profit of the said Churches, Wee humbly conceive those Measures most reasonable & Conducleve to the Entire Reconciliation of both ministers and Partyes, this wee offered before, to the other Gentlemen of the Committee as being agreable to the Opinion of the Classis of Amsterdam Signifyed by thire Letters to that Purpose. All which matters aboue mentioned are nevertheless with Humility Submitted to your Honours' Prudent Consideration & Decision by Sir, Your Honours most obedient Most humble Servants, D. Provoost A. D. Peyster J. D. Peyster. 1709 Read in Council, 6th Oct., 1709. Doc. Hist. N. Y. Vol. ill. pp. 101, 102. ACTS OF THE CLASSIS OF AMSTERDAM. Letters from Lydius, Du Bois, Anthonides. 1709, Oct. 7th. A letter was brought in from Revs. Lidius, du Bois, and Anthonides, which was placed in the hands of the Deputies ad res exteras, to serve the Rev. Assembly with a report. Indian Affairs. The Indian affairs, (see the previous acta,) remain in statu. Suriname, New York. The Messrs. Deputati ad res Exteras report that they had spoken to the Hon. Pensionary Buys about the affairs of Suriname and New York, who had promised his assistance in these matters. These affairs remain further recommended to them. ix. 198. Request of the Church of Kingstown. 1709, Oct. 7th. Rev. Colleague Bomble made known to the Rev. Assembly that the Church of Kingstowne had requested of the Rev. Classis of Amsterdam, in writing, yea, had authorized it, speedily to call, ordain, and send them a pastor and teacher. 1709 Of the learning, piety, acceptable preaching gifts and other praiseworthy qualities of the party called, we entrust the judgement thereof to the Messrs. van Alphen, Jaco Hass van der Honert, and Doctor John Doutrein, or in the absence of any of the three, to the two, who are present. This request will be acted on subsequently. At the ensuing Classis, Rev. Adrianus Beuckelaer will preside in regular order. ix. 199. ANOTHER PETITION IN BEHALF OF THE GERMANS. Oct. 10, 1709. To the Right Honorable Richard Ingoldesby Esq., Lieutenant Governour and Commander in Chief in and over Her Majesty's Provinces of New York, Nova Caesaria, and Territories depending thereon in America etc. As also to Her Majesties Honourable Council of this Province etc. The Most humble Petition of John Conrad Codweis, in behalf of the German Company. Most Humbly Sheweth: That your Honours most humble Petitioner according to your Honour's Order, endeavoured to his utmost to find a Gentleman, who might be willing to support the said Germans with the Remainder of their Allowance, the entire Summe of which is not exceeding 195 pounds 3 shillings whereby he not only offered, That Your Honour's with the Concurrence of the Honorable Coll. Nicholson, would give such a Gentleman the same Encouragement of Certification and Recommendation to Her Majesty and the Royal Treasury as Coll. Wenham (b.m.) had before. But also, That the said Company by your Honour's Approbation should enter into a penal Bond, fully to repay the said summ to the said Gentleman, if his agent should not receive it from the Royal Treasury within twelve months. Your Honour's Most Humble Petitioner is in Duty bound further, most humbly to represent to your Honour's that he found Coll. Nicholas Bayard, Mr. Octavus Conradus, to be willing to the ready payment of the mentioned summ, provided, that they might have a sufficient assurance of the repayment thereof in Great Britain. But whereas he likewise did observe, that the said Gentleman did consider his propositions only as a fine talke and Discourse out of his own head, desireing your Honour's effectual Concurrence, he is constrained most humbly to acquaint your Honours, That, having duly executed Your Honour's Order, he can contribute nothing more but to add his most humble prayers to your Honours Generosity, to let descende Your tender Commiseration towards the precarious and miserable circumstances of this poor people, wherein they certainly shall perish this Winter, if they should not be speedily supplyed with the recited Remainder of their Allowance, to provide themselves before they shall be blocked up and cut off by the approaching Winter, which extremities consequently should inevitably reduce Her Majesties extraordinary Clemency and great expenses as well as your Honours tender care and Favour towards this poor people to no effect. The only most secure and effectual remedy against which would be, if your Honour's would be favorably pleased to assure any of the said Gentlemen, or rather, one of Her Majesties Honourable Councellors, That your Honour's Certifi cate and Recommendation will be certainly considered and accepted by Her Most Sacred Majesty, and that Her Majesty will never permit that this poor people should suffer the hardship of repaying the said Remainder, but to the contrary shall be most graciously pleased to order a speedy payment of the Bill of the said Gentleman etc. Your Honours most humble Petitioner, being convinced not to be allowed to question Your Honour's Favour of approving what he most humbly hath undertaken to represent and lay before your Honour's to the benefit of his Countrymen, shall ever call and subscribe himself for so great a happiness and Favour, with permission, if it please your Honour's Most humble, 1709 This Board do resolve for their encouragement to Certifie the advance of what money shall be paid to ye said Germans as aforesaid and to recommend the same to my Lord High Treasurer in the same manner as it was done on Coll. Wenham's undertaking the same the Germans haveing offered to give their personale security for ye Repayment thereof in case it be not paid in England in a year.— Doc. Hist. N. Y. Vol. iii. pp. 331, 332. DISPOSITION OF THE MAJORITY AND MINORITY REPORTS ON THE (Counc. Min. X.) Att a Council held in New Yorke Present the Honorable Richard Ingoldesby Esq. Lieut. Governor. Mr. Phillips having desired to be heard & it being granted he said:In the dispute between the Dutch Ministers on Long Island there has been a Reference and thereon two Reports have been made to this Board; One by Mr. Van Dam and three others, the other afterwards by Capt. Provost and two others to all whom it was referred and then he Proposed the Question whether two Reports on one & the same Reference ought to be made or ever has been made. Mr. Beekman Mr. Mompessom Mr. Barberie & Coll. Peartree are of opinion that the Report of the Majority has been always made and not two reports on one and the same referrence. Then Mr. Phillipse moved that the Report of Mr. Van Dam and others being that of the majority may continue on the file and the other taken of. Mr. Beekman Mr. Mompessom Mr. Barberie & Coll. Peartree being for the motion It is ordered that the Report of ye said Mr. Van Dam & others remain on ye file & the other of Capt. Provost and others to be taken of the fiel.- Doc. Hist. N. Y. Vol. iii. p. 103. |