[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] us for many years. "In continuation, A.D. 1716. On the 18>!> and 19* April tho Rev. G. Bartholf again performed religious service in this Christian church, for which both he and Teuuis Van Houten, who conveyed him to and fro> were both paid satisfactorily according to mutual agreement. And lor all this we are bound to show special thankfulness for the usual liber-ality of the very provident Lady Madame Catherina Philips. " Book 2. Of Church Minutes. We here note that it has been Re-solved by common consent between the Inhabitants of Philipsburgh on the one part, and the respective Inhabitants of the Manor of Mr. Van Cortlandt, that the afore-mentioned Church shall be bound, without moving any exception against it, to pay ami deliver over a just fourth part yearly for the religious service in the Church at Philipsburgh, in order that the Jlev. Minister of the Holy Gospel may receive his reward to his entire satisfaction for his faithfully performed services. And, on the other part, the Church of Philipsburgh shall be bound for the other three parts, whereby fully to satisfy the aforesaid Minister for his ser-vices. And they shall henceforth blend together as members of one and same Christian Church, and it -hall In-so in>tr.l dow n in the Church 'Book of Minutes,' as is right and proper.