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The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester (1881 revised edition, Vol. I)

Bolton, Robert Jr. The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester, from its First Settlement to the Present Time, Vol. I. New York: Charles F. Roper, 1881. Revised posthumous edition. 369 words

By my antecedent accounts, the Honourable Society hath been informed of the number of our communicants, which hath been from the beginning of our conformity, four times in the year, between thirty and forty communicants of our town, sometimes above forty, but this last Easter there was fifty communicants ; three families reunited to the flock, which were the most sober and sensible persons of our disturbed inhabitants ; those who remain yet backward, showing rather the humour of seditious, obstinate disturbers, than the spirit of sound, religious Christians; but I live peaceably and civily with them, knowing that the most forward may, by the grace of God, turn docile ; as I have with patience and moderation waited for others, so shall I continue to do for the few remaining back, ready to help them for their own good and the full and perfect gathering of the flock. It remains that I inform the Honourable Society, that as 1 continue to do the service in English every third Sunday, as I did from my first entrance in this place j that I have done it till now with a Bible of small volume and character, that the Honourable Society be pleased to allow us the benefit of an English Bible, with a small quantity of English common prayers, because our young people, or some of them, have sufficiently learned to read English for to join in the public service when read in English. Concerning the books I have received from the Society, they are disposed of according to their intention, with an exact memorial of the persons who have received them, and that which remain of those or of my own shall be left and conveyed, I hope, to my successor ; entreating the Honourable Society that he may be a missionary fit for to perform the divine service in French and English as I have done, for the edification of our people, and perpetuating the memory of this conformity to the national Church of England, in which we shall continue to pray for "the life and prosperity of her Majesty and dominions, for the preservation and welfare of the Church, and as bound by our just acknowledg-