In one letter to the Right Honourable Richard Ingoldsby Esq’ʳ, Lieutenant Governor and Commander-in-Chief over Her Majesty’s Provinces in New York, Nova Caesaria and Territories depending thereon in America &c. as also to Her Majesty’s Honourable Council of this Province &c. they plead that “they do not know where to address themselves to receive the remainder of their allowance of provision at 9d per day.” Again, in their search to find “a Gentleman who might be willing to support said Germans with the Remainder of their allowance the entire summ of which is not exceeding 195 lbs, 3sh,” they but succeed in finding a gentleman whose offer of assistance they considered only as “fine talke and discourse out of his own head”—by which one learns the supplicants were left hungry and cold on their hilly farms, waiting for help which came slowly and for crops which yielded but scantily. [Illustration: THE LUTHERAN CHURCH.] Whoever institutes a comparison between the Palatines and the Pilgrims must remember the Pilgrims came to America, a compact society fortified by friends at home soon to follow, while the Palatines, beggared by the most terrible of religious persecutions, were sent, as individuals, by Queen Anne to her colonies, as to-day dependent children of the State are sent to the far West. They were absolute paupers, yet such was their moral excellence that a writer on Dutch Village Communities on the Hudson River indirectly commends these poor Germans. “From the banks of the Rhine the germ of free local institutions borne on the tide of western emigration found along the Hudson a more fruitful soil than New England afforded for the growth of those forms of municipal, state and national government which have made the United States the leading Republic among nations, and thus in a new and historically important sense may the Hudson river be called the Rhine of America.” The patent granted the Lutherans known as the Palatine Parish by Quassaick contained within its boundaries forty acres for highways and five hundred for a Glebe. The Glebe is bounded by North Street on the north and by South Street on the south. Across its western border ran Liberty Street, then the King’s Highway, although no king save Washington, who refused the title, ever trod its dust. The Glebe was “for the use of the Lutheran minister and his successors forever,” but they really possessed it only about forty years,—thus liberally was “forever” interpreted two centuries ago. “Here’s a church, and here’s a steeple, Here’s the minister and all the people,”