1709 PETITION OF THE ELDERS AND DEACONS OF REV. MR. ANTONIDES. To the Honorable Richard Ingoldesby Esq. Lieut. Governor & Commander in Chief of the Provinces of New York & New Jersey etc. and the honorable Councill of the Province of New York. The Humble Peticon of the Elders and Deacons of the Dutch Reformed Protestant Churches of the Towns of Brookland flatbush & flatlands in Kings County Sheweth That whereas on some differences in the said towns relating to & concerning who was the minister of said Towns application has heretofore been made to this board and sundry Gentlemen of this board & others have been directed to examine that matter and make report thereof which they have accordingly done whereby it appears that Mr. Vincentius Antonides is duely called Minister of the said Towns to the said Congregations as by the said report remaining on the file relacon being thereto had may more fully and at large appear. Your Petitioners therefore humbly Pray that the said report may be approved in Council & that your honors will be pleased to declare that the said Mr. Antonides ought accordingly to exercise his function as Dutch Minister to the said Congregations, and your Petitioners shall ever Pray. New York, 22nd Oct. 1709. In the name & by their order, Jeronimus Remsen. Doc. Hist. N. Y. Vol. iil. p. 103. PETITION FOR A DECISION ON THE DIFFERENCES IN THE CHURCHES OF KINGS COUNTY. To the Honourable Coll. Richard Ingoldsby Lieutenant Governor & Commander In Chief of the Provinces of New York & New Jersey & Vice Admiral of the same. The humble Petition of Cornelius Seabring & Cornelius Van Brunt in behalf of themselves and others members of the Dutch Churches of flatbush Brookland & New Utrecht. Sheweth That his late Excellency John Lord Lovelace late Governor of this Province decd. having in his life time referred the Examination of the subject matter of a certain Petition signed by Joseph Heggeman Jeronimus Ramsen & Peter Nevius in behalf of Domine Antonides; & of another certain Petition signed by your present Petitioners in Behalf of themselves and others as above and also in behalf of Domine Bernardus Freeman their Minister; to divers persons for them to make their Report to his said late Excellency; but the said Lord Lovelace dying before the said Report was perfected, the said referees according to order have since made their Report to your Honor, in two Different manners, as your Petitioners are informed but your Honour having not as yet made any decisive order thereon as your Petitioners can learn. Your Petitioners most humbly Pray your Honour would be pleased to declare your decision of the Matters thus so fully Examined into by the said Referees that the same being signified to the respective parties concerned may put an end to the differences which have so long depended between them. And they will Pray, etc. Cornelis Seberingh Cornelis Van Brunt. Read 27th October, 1709. - Doc. Hist. N. Y. Vol. ill. p. 104. LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR INGOLDESBY'S ORDER ON THE DIFFICUL Oct. 27, 1709. The preceding petitions having been read the Lieut. Gov. was pleased to make the following order in hec verba: A Reference haveing been made by the Late Lord Lovelace to certain persons to inquire into ye causes of the Differences that have happened between Mr. ffreeman and Mr. Antonides with relation to ye Churches in Kings County & ye said persons having made two severall reports to ye Honorable Coll. Ingoldesby Lieut. Gov. of this Colony. His Honor haveing considered the said Report and the Matters therein contained does think fit to order & direct and does hereby order & direct that from this time forward Mr. Freeman and Mr. Antonides shall preach at all ye said Churches in Kings County alternately and divide all ye Profitts Equally share and share alike and to avoid all further disputes between the said Ministers Mr. ffreeman shall preach next Sunday at Flattbush & ye Sunday following Mr. Antonides shall preach att Flattbush and so on in the other Churches turn by turn if Elther of them refuses to Comply with this Order to be dismissed. Whereupon Mr. Philipse moved that the oppinions of ye Gentlemen of this Board with relation to ye same matter may be Entered which follow Mr. Phillipse. That ye Report made in favor of Mr. Antonides ought to be confirmed that he ought to discharge his function without any Interrupson pursuant to the fifty third article of her Majesties Instructions to my Lord Lovelace.* Mr. Barberie of ye same opinion. Mr. Van Dam of ye same opinion. Capt. Provost. That the Determination of the Lieutenant Governour is very Reasonable and ought to be complyed with. Mr. Beekman, being a party Concerned Desires to be excused from giving his oppinion. (Coun. Min.) - Doc. Hist. N. Y. Vol. ii. pp. 104, 105. REV. BERTOW TO THE SOCIETY. DEATH OF REV. MR. URQUHART. Art. 53. You are to permitt a Liberty of Conscience to all persons (except Papists) so they be contented with a quiet and peaceable enjoyment of the same not giving any offence or scandal to the Government.— Instructions to Ld. Lovelace. 1709 1709 COMMISSION OF REV. DANIEL BONDETT, TO BE MINISTER OF NEW Richard Ingoldesby Esq. Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief of their To Capt. Oliver Besly and his Brethren Gent. of ye Consistory of New Rochelle in ye County of Westchester, Greeting. Gentlemen: The bearer hereof Mr. Daniel Bondett an Orthodox Minister of the Church of England haveing laid before me the orders of ye Right Honorable and Right Reverend father in God Henry by Divine mission Lord Bishop of London and Diocesan of this Province to officiate in your Church and Parrish according to ye Rules & Constitution of the Church of England as by Law Established bearing date June 16th 1709, as also a Letter from ye Venerable Society for propagation of ye Gospel in fforeign parts bearing date June 6th with an Extract of their Journal June 3, 1709 Constituting and appointing him one of their Missionaries and a Yearly Sallary for his Service in Your Church. You are therefore directed to receive him as such. Given under my Hand & Seal this ninth day of November in the Eighth year of ye Reign of our Sovereign Lady Queen Anne of Great Brittain etc. Annoq. Dni. 1709. LETTER OF SUNDERLAND TO PRESIDENT OF COUNCIL OF NEW Trade Papers, Z. 70. Sir: White Hall Nov. 10, 1709. The Queen having thought fit to order the sending of some three thousand of the poor Palatines to New York commanded us to acquaint you with it and to tell you that they are to sail from hence about the 15th of next month, to the end that you may consult with her Majesty's Council thereupon. The proper measures to be taken for providing for these poor people on their arrival in your parts, both as to lodging and provisions. Her Majesty does particularly recommend me to let you know that the expenses of it will be assured from hence. Her Majesty's intention being that these people should in no wise become a burden to your colony. DOMINE ANTONIDES REFUSAL TO COMPLY WITH THE PRECEDING ORDER. To the Honorable Richard Ingoldesby Esq., Lieut. Gov. & Commander in Chief of the Provinces of New York & New Jersey & the Honorable Council of the Province of New York. The humble Peticon of Vincentius Antonides Minister of the Dutch Reformed Protestant Churches of Brookland flatbush and flatlands on the Island of Nassau. Sheweth That your Petitioner having been served with an Order from his Honor dated the 27th of October, 1709 And to the end that he may not be wanting in his duty to God his said Churches nor give any Just cause to incur his honors displeasure, he humbly beggs leave to Represent that he cannot comply with the said Order unless he breaks through the Rules & Discipline of the Dutch Re formed Protestant Churches the Constitucon whereof not admitting any minister to assume a right to any Church but where he is Regularly called to, which the said order seems to Direct. Your Petitioner therefore humbly Prays that your Honor and this board will Protect your Petitioner in the due & peaceful Exercise of his ministerial function in the said Churches where he has been regularly called unto and as his Predecessors in the said Churches have enjoyed. And your Petitioner as in duty bound shall ever Pray, etc. Read 11 Nov. 1709. Signed Vincentius Antonides. 1709 THE NEW YORK ANGLICAN MISSIONARIES TO THE BISHOP OF LON- May it please your Lordship: New York 24th November, 1709. We think ourselves obliged by the ties of humanity & sacred relation of the Fraternity as well as those of Christian charity to the indigent to make this representation to your Lordship our most worthy diocesan & the venerable Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in the behalf of the virtuous Relicts of our late deceased Reverend Brethren Mr. Muirson and Mr. Urquhart whose present difficult circumstances as they extort this our Petition, so we humbly hope will render them proper objects of your commiseration The other our dear Brother Mr. William Urquhart Minister of Jamaica on Long Island being settled amongst the greatest adversaries of the Church was at great pains as well as charges to maintain the title of his Church & parsonage besides repairs and his natural good inclinations to hospitality & frequent occasions leading him into extraordinary expences to support the credit of his character, being twelve miles of New York has likewise left his Widow in such Incumbrances as truly we cannot but pity and do therefore jointly implore the Venerable Patrons of the Church and its missionarys to remove, by the equal benevolence And further these being the first of your missionaries here that have died in your service, we beg leave to entreat, that the same charitable Bounty of a year's salary may continue to be paid to the Widows of your missionaries who shall hereafter die in the service of the Church, to remove if possible the too frequent & difficult circumstances of Ministers Relicts. Evan Evans de Philadelphia Jno. Thomas de Hamstead Jno. Sharpe Chapn. to the Queens forces Saml. Myles. Hen. Harris de Boston Jno. Talbot de Burlington Jno. Bartow de West Chester Christ. Bridge de Rye. - Doc. Hist. N. Y. Vol. ill. pp. 132-3. 1709 REVEREND MR. VESEY TO COLONEL RIGGS. THE QUEEN'S FARM. New York, December 2nd, 1709. My Dear friend Coll. Riggs: I humbly intreat you to remember me in England and to vouchsafe me your favour in these particulars, as 1st. To put the Bishop of London in mind to adjust the affair of the farm, by the Queen's letter, or otherwise, before the new Governor leaves England that it may be no cause of dispute between him and us after his arrival. 2nd. That the farm though now of small rent thirty pounds per annum will in a few years be much more considerable, and that it deserves the utmost efforts to secure it to the church, which may easily be effected at present, but hereafter not. 3rd. That if the farm and consequently my house rent be taken away, my income in this chargeable publick station will not support me. 4th. That I deserve some encouragement as well as others haveing served the Church twelve years with success, that when the people belonging to the men of war have been sick on shore, have visited them and done offices for them, though their Chaplains have officiated as ministers of parishes at Boston Philadelphia and towns very remote from New York, and received the profits; and also that in the absence of the Chaplain of the Fort I have taken care of the sick soldiers and their families, baptized their children and buried their dead; and all this without any consideration, except that for about two years I was Chaplain to the Triton prize, which is now gone; that Mr. Harris at Boston which is three hundred miles and Mr. Evans at Philadelphia one hundred, from this Province, are the Chaplains to the two guard ships of this Province; that besides what the Rev. Mr. Evans has at Philadelphia which is more than all my salary, he has a liveing of above one hundred and fifty pounds per annum in England; that the Missionarys of this Province besides their establishments here which are looked on proportionable to the country as good as mine have all of the fifty pounds each per annum from the Society. 5th. That these are all worthy gentlemen and doe great service to the Church, and well deserve what they have, and I dont in the least envy their happiness; but with submission think that some care ought also to be taken of me, who have served the church here much longer by many years than any of them, I may say it without vanity, with more success, whatever noise some of them may make in England. 6th. Therefore in justice I ought to have the allowance of fifty pounds per annum from England as well as they, since my ship is gone, my perquisites sunk, and my annual income sometimes leaves me in debt in this publick and expensive place, where a man is obliged to live in another manner than in a country town. 7th. That my Lord Bishop of London be moved to petition the Queen in Council for such an annuall allowance out of the Treasury of fifty pounds as his Lordship did for an one hundred pounds per annum for the minister of Boston, Mr. Harris, and I think as much for Mr. Barkly and easily obtained it. 8th. That if Coll. Riggs and Mr. Newman with the concurrence of the Bishop of London shall effect this great matter for me, I shall make them both ample satisfaction. 9th. But if this can't be obtained (as I hope it may by the earnest application of my friends) then I hope my friends will procure for me the debt of twenty pounds from the King's bounty, which I ought to have had when I left England, which King William promised for encouragement to every Minister that would goe into the Plantations and so was continued by Her Majesty Queen Anne, and that this twenty pounds if procured (after Mr. Newman is satisfied) be put into Coll. Riggs hands to be disposed of for me as he shall think proper, either in solicitations or in goods, Coll. Riggs reserving for himself so much as he pleases for his trouble. |