To His Noble, Right Honorable, Major Edmond Andros, Governor General of all his Royal Highness', James Duke of York and Albany etc., Territories in America.[1]
The undersigned petitioners, the community of the unaltered Augsburg Confession, called the Lutheran by people living on the South River, do declare and make known, with all due reverence, that the petitioners made an humble request to his Right Honorable Lord on the 13th of May anno 1675 together with a document drawn up in the Council at New Castle on the 10th of December anno 1672, in which they divided the river into two parishes, so that all that is above the Verdritige Hoeck shall be and remain in the pastorate of Magister Jakobus Fabricius, which the petitioners' pastor suggested and with all due humility requested and petitioned that his Noble, Right Honorable Lord would please to confirm such a document and division for the glory of God and good order. Whereupon the petitioners anticipated a favorable reply and recommendation and had also hoped that they would obtain the same through Capt. E. Kantwel, but since the hasty journey and many troubles of his Noble, Right Honorable Lord have hindered it, so that they, the petitioners, do not know to what they shall have to conform, the petitioners come once again to his Right Honorable Lord with the humble request, if it pleases, to confirm the document and division together with their pastor Magister Jakobus Fabritius and to endow the petitioners with a favorable reply, doing which they shall remain his Right Honorable Lord's subjects and intercessors with God.
Done at New Castle the first of June anno 1675
The Community of the unaltered Confession of Augsburg on the South River belonging to the Churches of Zwaenewyck and Kraenhoek
[ Endorsed: ] No. 7 N. Castle in Delaware 1st. of June 1675Petition of Luterians Church
Henrich Janssen
Hendrick HI Jansen van Breemen
Harman Jansen
Piter Volker
Peter PC Classen
Peter X Witten
Corn. Janssen
Pieter X Maaslandt
Jan B Barends
Sibrand X Jansen
Hinrich X Fransen
Willem Jansen
Jan Jansen
John Nohmers
Clos X Andressen
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