About the year 1764, this parish united with the churches of Ridgefield and Ridgebury, in Connecticut, and engaged Mr. Richard S.

a Conn. MSS. from archives at Fulham, p. 1520. (Hawks.) One of the missionaries of the Society, writing iu 1760, says:-- "Eye tried to prevail upon him, (Mr. Dibblee.) imt the good man, though In greater need of better support, apprehensive of the great detriment it would be to that ("hnrch (Stamford) has refused."

b Churchman's Magazine, new scries, vol. lv : 2C9-270.

e Meade's Hist, of Oireenwlch; p. 271.

THE TOWN OF NORTH SALEM.

Clarke" to read divine service and sermons on Sundays. He was succeeded by Mr. Epenetus Townsend, who had been strongly recommended by Dr. Dibblee, as a lay reader.

On the 17th of October, 1 767, the Rev. Samuel Auchmuty, D.D., rector of Trinity church, New York, addressed a letter to the Venerable Propagation Society, enclosing the following petition from the churchwardens and vestrymen of Salem : --

THE CHURCH-WARDENS AND VESTRY OF SALEM, &o., TO THE

SECRETARY.

"Salem in Westchester County, Province of New York, )

August 31st, 1767. j"

May it Please TnE Venerable Society :

Wc, the church-wardens and vestry of Salem, and parts contiguous in the Province of New York in America, beg leave in behalf of ourselves and poor brethren, professors of the Church of England, to lay before you our unhappy circumstances ; for want of proper religious instruction and constant administration of God's word and sacraments, according to our religious profession, there being no minister of our Holy Church in the Province nearer than Rye, between thirty and forty miles distant to Salein, and upon Cortlandt's manor and Pliilipse's patent. Many of us already have a high esteem for the doctrines, worship and government of the Church of England ; some of us embrace every opportunity we have of communicating with the same, and a number of others are well disposed to the Church, many of whom are not under the care of a minister of any denomination.