PAPERS RELATING TO WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

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ORDER AND REPORT ON THE ABOVE.

At a Council held at ffort William henry this 29 th day of June 1702.

Sa: Sh: BroughtonGarrard BeekmanRip Van Dam

Upon the motion of Coll: heathcote that the Minister of New Rochelle had formerly a sallaryallowed him out of the Revenue which the late Earl of Bellmont deprived him of, It is herebyordered that the petition of the said Minister formerly D d to his Excellency be referred to the s dColl: heathcote who is to Examine into the Allegations and Report the same.

By order of his Excellency & Councill

B. Cosens Clk concilj

May it please Y r Excell:

In obedience to y r Excell: Commands I have Examined into the Allegations of the within Petition& do find, that the Petitioner was employed about 15 years ago by the corporation for Propagatingthe Xtian ffaith amongst the Indians at a place called New Oxford near Boston , with the allowanceof a Salary of £25. a year, where he consumed the little he brought with him from ffrance in set-tling himself for that Service, and being afterwards by reason of the War compelled to fly fromthence, his Improvements where wholly lost. Dureing the time of his stay there, which was about8 years, it apears by a certificate under the hands of the late Lieut . Governour Stoughton of Boston ,Wait Wintrope, Increase Mather , and Charles Morton, that he with great faithfullnesse care & in-dustry discharged his duty both in reference to Xtians & Indians, and was of an unblemished lifeand Conversation. After his being called to Newrochelle the Corporation afforementioned in Consi-deration of his past services & sufferings, were pleased still to Continue him his Sallery which heEnjoy’d untill the arrival of the late Earl of Bellomont, who haveing settled £30 a year upon himout of the Revenue used afterwards his intrest with the said Corporation to take of the Sallery,they had all along allow’d him, which no sooner was effected but he Immediately suspended himallso from the £30 a year he had settled upon him, by which meanes the Petitioner is left with avery deplorable Condition not being able with the sallary that is allowed him at Newrochelle , w ch isonly £20 a year to support himself and familly. All which is hu’bly Submitted by

Y 1 ' Excell’s most Obed 1 humble Serv‘

Caleb Heathcote.

• Esq r

Caleb heathcote EsqJohn Bridges Doctor of Laws

ORDER TO INDUCT REV D M R PRITCHARD TO THE CHURCH OF RYE.

Edward Viscount Cornbury Cap‘ Gen" and Governour in Cheif of the provinces of New Yorke,New Jersey &c., and Vice Admirall of the same.

To all and singular Rectors Vicars Chaplains Curates Clerks and Ministers wheresoever constitutedin y e s d Province of New York and also to Caleb Heathcott Esq r and Joseph Theate Church-Wardens of the P ish Church of Rye in the County of Westchester , I do hereby firmly enjoyn andcommand that you induct and p'sent the Reverend Tho. Prichard as Rector to y e Rectory or Parish Church of Rye aforesaid, and that you put him in the reall actuall and corporall possession of the s dRectory or p ish Church of Rye afores d , and of all the Glebes Rights and Appurtenances thereunto