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1710

Order of Council on the Above.

In Council 13th April 1710. The President communicated to this Board a letter from Mr. Samuell Clowes* of ye 11th April setting forth that the Dissenters had that Day Committed a Riot or forceable Detainer of ye Church at Jamaica And therefore Desired that all Due Encouragement might be given to the Queens officers who had committed the persons for that Fact Especially by Directing the Attorney Generall to prosecute the offender

The President allso communicated a Mittimus under the Hand and Seal of Robert Read Esq., one of Her Majesties Justices for keeping the Peace in Queens County whereby the High Sheriffe thereof was Directed to take into his Custody Hugh Carpenter, George Woolsey, Jonas Wood, Richard Olfield, Samuel Mills & Jarimiah Smith who he setts forth are convicted of ye said forcable holding (by his own view) and them to keep in the comon Goal of this County untill they shall be thence delivered by due Course of Law.

Ordered that the respective Justices of Queens County or the major part thereof Enquire into the Facts abovementioned and Lay a true Representation thereof before this Board by Thursday next, and that a copy of this Order be forthwith sent to ye said Justices.

Jamaica in Queens County, ye 19th of April 1710.

Wee underwritten Justices of the peace of our Sovereign Lady the Queen for Queens County assigned in obedience to an order from the honourable the presi dent & her Majesties Council of this province dated the 13th Inst. (to us directed) have Inquired upon oath into the matter of the Disturbance in the Church of Jamaica & doe find that Mr. Justice Read has proceeded therein according to Law & that the Record he has made is a true Representation thereof. We remaine, Your Honours most obedient Servants,

Tho. Willett
John Jackson
John Tredwell
Saml. Moore

Endorsed,

"A Letter from ye Justices of ye Peace
for Queens County."

John Marston
Tho. Jones
Wi. Cornell

Tho. Whitehead.

In Council, 20th Aprill 1710.

The Justices of ye Peace for Queens County Layd before this Board according to order a Representation of the Disturbance and forceable Detainer of ye Church of Jamaica by some Dissenters which was a Record made thereof by Robt. Read Esq., and Certificate of severall of ye Justices that the same is a True Record.

Upon Consideration of this matter The Board is of opinion That the Law being open they ought not to encourage or discourage the said Prosecution.- Doc. Hist. N. Y. Vol. iii. pp. 133, 134.

Another Petition of Rev. Mr. Antonides.

To the Honorable Gerardus Beekman Esq. President and the rest of her Majesties Council of the Province of New York etc.

The humble Petition of Vincentius Antonides minister of the Dutch Reformed Protestant Churches of the towns of Flatbush flatlands & Brookland on the Island of Nassauw in Kings County.

Sheweth

That whereas upon a difference in the said County a reference was had and matters Examined by a Committee of this board & others relating to your Petitioners right to the said Churches & upon ye report of the said Committee being re

An account of this gentleman and of his descendants will be found in Thompson's Long Island, ii. 106.

Note.

turned to this board whereby it appears that your Petitioner was duly called minister of the said Churches but hitherto could not obtain a Confirmation of the said report nor Proteccon in the due Exercise of his functions there but to ye Contrary has been forbid to preach in the said County to the great grief & damage of your Petitioner.

He therefore humbly prays that the said report may be confirmed & he protected in the Exercise of his duty without molestation in the like manner as his predecessors in the said Churches have enjoyed.

And your Petitioner as in duty bound shall ever pray etc.

New Yorke

April 12, 1710.

V. Antonides.

Doc. Hist. N. Y. Vol. iii. p. 106.

Petition of the Sheriff and Justices of Kings County in Favor of Domine Antonides.
The Honorable Gerardus Beekman Esq. President and the rest of her Majesties
Council of the Province of New York etc.

The humble Petition of the Justices of the Peace & high Sheriff of Kings County on the Island of Nassauw

Sheweth

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That for some years past there hath been a great difference in the said County concerning the right of the ministerial function of the Dutch Reformed Protestant Churches of flatbush & Brookland which Mr. Antonides claimed as being thereunto called by the Consistory of the said Towns & Mr. Freeman pretended to by a Lycense from some of the former Governors of this Province; that the said difference hath been examined by a Committee of this board & others & by a Report from the major part thereof remaining of record it was found that Mr. Antonides was duly called minister of the Churches according to their Constitution, the Confirmacon of which they humbly conceive would have entirely ended the said difference but instead thereof your Petitioners find that contrary to the same the late Lieutenant Governor by his orders dated the Elleaventh of October last has not only entirely given away the said Churches to Mr. Freeman but allso has forbidd Mr. Antonides to preach in the sald County & by what Law your Petitioners are yet ignorant of comanded your Petitioners to be aiding & assisting to the said Mr. Freeman to the prejudic of the said Mr. Antonides and the ancient rights of the said Churches & the hasarding the peace & tranquility of the said County. Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray your honors to take that matter into your Serious Consideracon & give such & the like Proteccon & countenance to the Dutch Protestant Reformed minister regularly called according to their Constitucon to any Churches in the said County as their respective predecessors before the said difference have always enjoyed & of right to them belongs And Your Petitioners as in Duty bound shall ever pray etc. In the name & by their order,

New Yorke,

17th Aprill, 1710.

Joseph Hegeman, Pieter Strycker, Gerret Stoothoff.
Doc. Hist. N. Y. Vol. iii. p. 107.

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Further Order in Council on the Pending Difficulties.

Att a Council held att the City Hall of ye City of New Yorke this 18th day of
Aprill 1710.

Present the Honorable Gerardus Beekman, President

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Upon the said (preceding) two Petitions & after a Debate thereon it was put to ye vote and ordered that every Member declared and enter their opinions thereon which is as follows to witt

Majr. Provost. That these matters and these petitions ought not to be meddled with till Col. Hunter arrives.

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Coll. Peartree. That Mr. Antonides ought to have liberty to preach to the people that called him.

Mr. Phillipse. That the report of ye Major Part of ye Council to whom the matter was referred dated 14th 7ber Last ought to be confirmed and Mr. Antonides protected in ye free exercise of his ministerial Function of ye said Towns accordingly and that all persons may be ordered to take notice thereof and Mr. Antonides & Freeman Recommended to Dispose as much as in them Lyes their Respective Consistoryes so as that each of them may be called by them to such Churches as they are not yett duely called unto.

Mr. Barberie, of ye same oppinion.

Mr. Van Dam, of ye same oppinion.

Mr. Beeckman, whereas there is a Governor expected every Day is therefore of opinion that that is more proper for him to Lett the Report & Petitions Remain as they are till Coll. Hunter arrives.

Upon collecting the opinions ordered that the said Report be confirmed Mr. Antonides protected in the free exercise of his Ministerial Function in the said Townes and all persons to take notice thereof accordingly and ye said Mr. Antonides & Mr. Freeman Recommended to Persuade & Dispose (as much as in them Lyes) their Consistory's Respectively so as that each of them may be called to such Churches as they are not yett duely called unto.- Doc. Hist. N. Y. Vol. iii. pp. 107, 108.

Petition in Behalf of Domine Freeman.

To the Honorable the President & others the Members of Her Majesties Council for the Province of New York.

The humble petition of Daniel Remsen & Cornelius Sebring Members of the Dutch Reformed Churches of Flatbush & Brookland in Kings County, which tends much to ye prejudice of Domine Bernardus Freeman minister of ye said Churches of Flatbush & Brookland (of which said Churches the said Domine Freeman has for sometime past been in full peaceable possession) & to ye disquiet & injury of your petitioners & that ye said order was made without any notice given to ye said Domine Freeman or any other on his behalf whereby they might have been heard before ye passing said order.

Now forasmuch as ye said order doth very much alter the Regulation lately made by his Honor Col. Ingoldesby Late Lieutenant Governor touching ye said Churches.

Your Petitioners humbly pray ye matters concerning ye said Churches may con-
tinue as they were upon the Regulation above mentioned until ye arrivall of
Col. Robert Hunter who is daily expected as Governor of this Province.
And your petitioners etc.

27 April 1710.

Daniel Remsen
Cornells Seberingh.

Doc. Hist. N. Y. Vol. iii. p. 108.

Order on Said Petition.

In Councill, 27 April 1710.

Upon Reading the above Petition the Council gave their opinions as follows:
Major Prevost. That the Petition be granted.

Coll. Peartree.

him.

Mr. Phillipse.

That Mr. Antonides ought to preach to ye People that called

That ye last order of this Board be confirmed.

Mr. Barberie. Of ye same opinion.

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Of ye same opinion.

Mr. President. For Peace & quietness that Mr. Freeman should have ye Priviledge to preach at Flattbush & Brookland till Col. Hunter arrives or till a further agreement. (Counc. Min.)- Doc. Hist. N. Y. Vol. iii. p. 109.

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ACTS OF THE CLASSIS OF AMSTERDAM.

Letters from New York. Draft of a Letter to New Netherland.

1710, May 5th. Rev. Streso handed in a letter, written from New York at a later time in further explanation of what had taken place there; also two drafts of letters about to be sent to the respective ministers of New Netherland (in answer) to theirs, in case the Classical Assembly should find pleasure in the same.

The Classis thanks Rev. Bomble for the drawing up of these drafts. They would now be glad to see the retiring and the newly appointed Deputies ad res Maritimas once more jointly deliberate upon the aforesaid drafts, polish them up a little, and give the church of New Netherland to understand how strongly the Classis desires the peace of the churches there; and how happy the Classis would be to see the government of the church there carried on in harmony with the Church Order established here. ix. 207.

Rev. Vas.

1710, May 5th. Rev. Vas, called as minister to Kingston, appeared. He stated that the Rev. (?) Skipper (Captain) asked 700 guilders for his passage, and that three hundred guilders must be paid down at once. He requested that this money might be paid to said skipper in his behalf, as he was in no condition to advance it, by the Messrs. Bomble, Schulting and van Oostrom, out of those nine hundred guilders which they had in their keeping from the churches of New Netherland. This money was to be used for the best interests of those churches, generally, and this could be done, provided the Rev. Classis of Amsterdam would go security for the same. ix. 207.

Indenture of Servitude, at Albany, May 10, 1710, by permission of the Deacons of the Dutch Church.

This Indenture witnesseth that Aulkey Hubertse, Daughter of John Hubertse, of the Colony of Rensselaerwyck deceased hath bound herself as a Meniall Servant and by these presents doth voluntary and of her own free will and accord bind herself as a Meniall Servant unto John Delemont of the City of Albany, weaver,

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by and with the consent of the Deacons of the Reformed Dutch Church in the City of Albany aforesaid who are as overseers in the disposal of the said Aulkey Hubertse, to serve from the date of these present Indentures unto the full end and term of time that the said Aulkey Hubertse shall come to Age, all which time fully to be compleat and ended, during all which term the said servant her said Master faithfully shall serve, his secrets keep, his lawful commands gladly everywhere obey, she shall do no Damage to her said Master nor see it to be done by others without letting or giving notice thereof to her said Master; she shall not waste her Masters goods or lend them unlawfully to any; she shall not commit fornication; at Cards, dice or any other unlawful Game she shall not play, whereby her said Master may have Damage; with her own goods or the goods of others during the said Term, without Licence from her said Master, she shall neither buy nor sell; she shall not absent herself day or night from her Master's service without his leave, nor haunt Ale-houses, Taverns or Play-houses, but in all things as a faithful servant, she shall behave herself towards her said Master and all his during the said Term. And the said Master during the said Term shall find and provide sufficient wholesome and compleat meat and drink, washing, lodging and apparell and all other Necessarys fit for such a servant; and it is further agreed between the said Master and Servant that in case the said Servant Aulkey Hubertse should contract Matrimony before she shall come to age, then the said servant is to be free from her said Master's service by virtue hereof, and at the expiration of her said servitude, her said Master John Delemont shall find, provide for and deliver unto his said servant double apparell, that is to say, apparell fit for her to have and to wear as well on the Lord's Day as working days both linning and woollen stockings and shoes and other Necessarys meet for such a servant to have and to wear, and for the true performance of all and every of said Covenants and Agreements the said partles bind themselves unto the other by these presents. In witness whereof they have hereunto set their hands and seals this 10th day of May in the nineth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lady Anne by the Grace of God, over Great Brittain, France and Ireland Queen, defender of the faith, etc. Anno Dommini 1710.

Jon. Delemont.

Signed, sealed and delivered in the presence of Antho. Brat, Theunis Brat, Jona Rumney.

It is further agreed between the said parties that the said Master shall before the expiration of the said Term teach or cause to be taught to read. This done before sealing and delivering.- Munsell's Annals of Albany, Vol. iii. pp. 234-6.

Petition of Geo. Woolsey and others.

To the Honorable Coll. Gerardus Beekman President of Her Majesty's Counci for the Colony of New York and Councill.

The Peticon of George Woolsey, Hope Carpenter, Jonas Wood, Richard Oldfield, Samuel Mills & Jeremiah Smith of Jamaica in Queens County.

Most Humbly Sheweth

That your Peticoners Stand Comitted till they pay their fine and charges upon a supposition of their being guilty of a forceable Detainer grounded on the conviction by the view of Robert Read Justice of the peace for Queens County whereof they are not conscious to themselves of being the least guilty, and of which they humbly conceive they can give sufficient proofe to any impartiall Judicature.

They therefore humbly pray that your Honors will give them such Relief as shall appear agreeable to Justice And they shall as in duty bound

Ever pray etc.
George Woollse

Hope Carpenter

Richard Oldfield

Jonas Wood
Jeremiah Smith
Samuel Mills.

Read the 19th day of May 1710 & al partys to attend on Monday & the Justices of the peace to be served with Copy of this Petition.

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