PAPERS RELAXING TO CHURCHES IN QUEENS COUNTY,
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The mark ofJeremiah X Wood.
Sworn before meethe 9 th day of June 1719
W m Doughty Justice.
SEC Y CLARKE TO THE MAGISTRATES OF QUEENS CO.
Gentlemen
His Ex ! y having read a Petition from several of the Inhabitants of the precinct of Jamaica in yourCounty has Commanded me to send you the Inclosed Copy, that having Considered what is theresuggested as Complaints against you for the Judgem ts by you given and other your transactions andConduct upon the Acts of Assembly for maintainance of the Minister of the said precinct you mayreturn to his Ex'y your Answer thereto.
But there being other Complaints in the said petition against several of the Justices you are to giveto Each of them Copys of those particular Complaints which concern them and w th all to signify tothem that they do w th all convenient speed appear before his Ex'r to answer to what is so Com-plained of against them giving timely notice thereof in writing under their hands to the petitionersor one of them that they may be present and prepared to make proof of the said Complaints if anythey have I am &c.
G. C.
ANSWER OF THE MAGISTRATES TO THE PRECEDING.
May it Pleas your Excellency
It is with the highest sence of Gratitude that we reflect upon your Excellencys most particular•favour and goodness to us the Magistrates of Queens County by permitting us this way to Justifieourselves against the Complaints Contained in the petition of Samuel Fitch and others preferred to yourExcellency concerning some of our Judicial proceedings. To do which so far as those Complaintsrelate to us Jointly we are under no manner of Concern, for nothing can be more Remote hornthe truth than are the Suggestions Alleadged in the said petition.
We humbly begg your Excellency’s patience to hear the account of our whole proceedings inrelation to our turning out the Church Wardens of this parish appointing new ones, Raiseing moneywithout the Concurrence of the Vestry, and Ordering the payment of that money to the ReverendMr. Thomas Poyer Minister of Jamaica .
There being some money raised for the Ministers Salary in the hands of Jbhn Everet and Thomas