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NEWBURGH
THE PALATINE PARISH BY QUASSAICK
By ADELAIDE SKEEL
Mr. Secretary Boyle to Lord Lovelace
Whitehall, 10th Aug'st, 1708.
My Lord:—The Queen being graciously pleased to send fifty-two German Protestants to New York and to settle 'em there at Her own expenses, Her Majesty as a farther act of Charity is willing to provide also for the subsistence of Joshua de Kockerthal their Minister and it is Her Pleasure that you pass a grant to him of a reasonable Portion of Land for a Glebe not exceeding five hundred acres with liberty to sell a suitable proportion thereof for his better Maintenance till he shall be in a condition to live by the produce of the remainder.
I am, my Lord
Your L'dshp's Most faithful
humble servant
Lord Lovelace. H. Boyle.
A bridge of sighs spans the distance between
the coming of Newburgh's earliest settlers, the
