Governor Colden for a charter, which he was pleased to grant us. Being so far advanced in our undertaking, Mr. John Doty, a gentleman educated at King's College in New York, offered himself as a candidate for our church, and has performed divine service for us most part of last summer; and has given such general satisfaction, that we have unanimously agreed to give him a call as soon as he is properly ordained, and authorized to peiform the office of a minister. And as we are well acquainted with his moral life and conversation, we beg leave to recommend him to the Venerable Society as a person worthy of that sacred function, and don't doubt but he will have ample testimonials from the worthy clergy of New York, of his education and abilities. We send by Mr. Doty, our petition to the Venerable Society, a copy of our charter and of our subscription paper for his maintenance, which amounts to j£6i, 15s. New York currency, annually; but as many of the subscribers are very poor, and some of them we apprehend will be necessarily obliged to leave the neighborhood, we fear it will be difficult to collect some of the subscriptions; but that Mr. Doty may be certain of receiving something, we have given our bond to the Rev. Dr. Auchmuty as trustees for the Society, obliging us to pay annually to Mr. Doty the sum of ^40 currency during his continuance amongst us, as our minister, and if the whole subscriptions are received it is all to be paid to him. The church is in a very thickly settled country, (tho' no kind of public worship is established in the neighborhood) yet at present there are but very few that profess to be of the Church of England, which makes it fall very heavy upon those few, so heavy, that we could not have gone thro' with our undertaking but by entering into an agreement with the people on the lower end of Philipse's upper patent, in the county of Dutchess, that if they would join in the building of St.