Who supplied the people with the gospel, we have not been able to find out; but God preserved and fostered the little band of Christian men and women, while they planted their feet upon the good sound scriptural principles of Presbyterianism : Here they stood, fortified by faith and prayer, until God heard and answered, and sent them from far over the sea a man after His own heart, to break unto them the Bread of Life.

May $d, 1720. -- Rev. William Tennent was invited here to preach the gospel. It is not certain whether he was ever regularly installed -- probably not, as he united first with the Presbyter)' of Philadelphia after he left here -- for he remained here only a short time. The church, in all probability, belonged at this time to the Presbyter)- of Long Island, which numbered but two or three ministers, and it was not convenient then, as now, to hold a meeting of the Presbytery. Mr. Tennent was born in Ireland in 1673, where he received a liberal education at Trinity College, Dublin, and where also he entered the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal Church and afterward became a dissenter and a Presbyterian from conviction. He was first settled in East Chester, New York. From there he came to Bedford, and from Bedford, after a little more than a year's labor, he went to Bensalem and Smithfield churches, in Pennsylvania. From there he accepted a call to Neshaminy, 1726, where a rich man, by the name of Logan, a relative of his, gave him fifty acres or land, on the Neshaminy Creek, on which to locate and carry on a school, which he had already commenced. Here he built a small house, about twenty feet square, mostly of logs, rudely