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8thly That all parties consent that these articles being interenangeably signed be read to the respective Congregations from the Pulpit & authentiq copies thereof sent to the other Dutch Churches in this Province to be by them kept & that notice hereof be given to the Classis of Amsterdam with the request of both parties for their approbacon.

"Lastly. If Mr Freerman & his friends should not be pleased to consent to the above articles that then Capn Joannes De Peyster be desired to produce the resolucon of the Classis of Amsterdam, whereby Peace is said to be recommended according to the order of the said Classis, as Mr Freerman intimates in his letter without date to Mr Antonides that Capt. De Peyster aforesaid had shewn the same to him, together with the means to attain such a Peace.

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“By order of the said Elders and Deacons,
“ABRAH: GOUVERNEUR
“JOSEPH HEGEMAN,
“GERONEMUS REMSEN,
“Endorsed, PIETER MELIJUS.
“‘Proposals on the part of Mr. Antonides’s friends. 1708.’”1

After a full and patient hearing of all the testimony in the case, the Council sent in majority and minority reports to the Governor. The former, signed by Messrs. Rip Van Dam, A. D. Philipse, J. V. Courtlandt, and Leendert Hugyen Do Kley finds “that Mr. Antonides is duly and regularly called minister of the said towns of Brookland, Flatbush, and Flatlands, according to the discipline, practice, aud constitution of the Dutch churches of the towns aforesaid, and that Mr. Freeman is duly called minister of New Utrecht, on the said island, and we believe is likewise minister of Bushwick, though it has not been proved before us.”2 The minority report, by Messrs. D. Provoost, A. D. Peyster, and Jo. D. Peyster, finds that "Mr. Freeman is justly and legally called and entitled to the ministry of the churches of Breukland, Flatbush, New Utrecht, and Boswyck.”3 The majority report, however, in favor of Mr. Anton

1 N. Y. Doc. Hist., iii. 151_154.

2 Ibid., iii. 159.

3 N. Y. Doc. Hist., iii. 160, 161, date Oct. 6, 1709: “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 tit that time the Elders & Deacons of the said Churches according to ye Rules & Meth-