[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] Peter's church, in the borough town of Westchester, and the county of West-chester, in our province of New York, and John Bartow, Isaac Willett, Lewis Morris, Jr., Peter de Lancey, Nathaniel Underbill, James Graham and James van Cortlandt, inhabitants of the said borough town of Westchester, in communion of the church of England, as by law established, in behalf of themselves and the rest of the inhabitants of the said town, in communion as aforesaid, by their humble petition, presented on the twelfth day of May last, to our trusty and well beloved Cadwallader Colden, Esq., then our lieutenant, governor and commander-in-chief of our Province of New York and the terri-tories depending thereon, in America, in council did set forth, tiiat for many years past there had been a church in the said town of Westchester, for the regular administration of divine service according to the use of the church of England, as by law established, but that for the want of proper persons to su-perintend the affairs and interests of the same with legal authority, the building was considerably out of repair, and pious and well disposed persons were dis-couraged in the designs of contributing to and establishing proper funds for