Honored Sir : --That I be not wanting in duty to the Honorable Society and their orders, I inform you that I am alive and thank God in good health, considering my age, having lost this year my wife, God having crowned the hardships of her pilgrimage with a honorable end. I keep and rule my house, as I ought to be exemplary in house ruling as in church ministering. My congrcgaa New York MSS. from archives at Fulhara, vol. 1, pp. 4T5. 476. (Hawks.) b New York JlSi. from archives at Fulham, voL 1, pp. 512, 513. (Hawk's.)

THE TOWN OF NEW ROCHELLE.

tion continue in the same terms that you have been informed by my precedents, forty, fifty and sixty communicants. I have of late admitted to the communion two negroes to the satisfaction of the Church, who heard them often before giving promise of their Christian instruction, and haviug good report among our people. There is nothing wanting in respect of the outward order, but as I have represented before that our town might have the privilege of Church, and enjoy the benefit of the law for to contribute towards the support of the minister who serveth them. I pray not on that point by ambition nor as complaining of any indigence, but it does not look well that a minister who hath served past twenty years in this province, founded a church and put it in the order where it appears to the public approbation, be left to voluntary contribution, and the contribution raised by law be applied to another place. I leave that to your wise considration, depending entirely on the favour and approbation of the Honorable Society for which I pray daily, as I am bound in duty, that their good works may continue and prosper, to the confirmation and propagation of ever truth and godliness.