A Brief state of the case of Ryer Shermerhorn, John Glen, Peter Van Benthuysen, and others, freeholders and inhabitants of the township of Schenectady, in the county of Albany

humbly submitted to the consideration of the honourable the representatives of the colony of New-York, convened in General Assembly, in support of the petition praying leave to bring in a bill for the division of the common lands belonging to the said township