8 STATEN ISLAND INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 
July 31. On the adjourned day the Assembly agreed that a peti- 
tion should be sent to the council of the company that the lands 
which had been previously granted by patent to the ancient planters 
by former governors, might not now after so much labor and cost 
and so many years’ habitation be taken from them upon the pretext 
of laying out portions of land for public use. 
A second petition was agreed upon to the effect that the com- 
pany would send out additional men to occupy and cultivate public 
lands and for other public purposes so that the planters might not ~ 
be too much drawn from their private business. A third petition 
prayed that it might be plainly expressed in the great Commission, 
as indeed it is not, that the ancient planters of both sorts, that is, 
those who came upon their own charges and those who came upon 
the company’s cost, might have their second, third, and more divi- 
sions successively in as large and free manner as any other plant- 
ers, and also that there should be allowed to the male children of 
them and all others begotten in Virginia, being the one hope of 
posterity, a single share apiece and shares for their wives, “‘ be- 
cause that in a newe plantation it is not knowen whether man or 
woman be the most necessary.” 
The fourth petition was “to beseech the Treasurer, Counsell 
and Company that they would be pleased to appoint a Sub- 
Treasurer here, to collect their rents, to the ende the inhabitants 
of this Colony be not tyed to an impossibility of paying the same 
yearly to the Treasurer in England; and that they would enjoin 
the said Sub Treasurer not precisely according to the letter of the 
Charter to exacte mony of us (whereof we have none at all as we 
have no minte) but the true value of rent in comodity.” 
The fifth petition prayed that workmen of all sorts might be 
sent out for the erection of the university and college. — 
The sixth and last was that “they will be pleased to change the 
savage name of Kiccowtan, and to give that incorporation a new 
name.” | 
After disposing of some other matters they adjourned to Mon- 
day, August 2d. On the day before, Mr. Shelly, one of the bur- 
