The summer past, the first Sunday after Trinity, I preached at Sharon, a town in Connecticut adjoining this province, about fifty miles to the northward, where they have a neat little church and a pretty congregation. The next day I preached in the north precinct of the Oblong in this Province, about five or six miles from Sharon. There they have a new church just raised, which they intend to cover in the summer, and finish as soon as might be. There is a large body of people whose religious circumstances truly deserve compassion ; and here, undoubtedly, would soon be a fine congregation, if they could enjoy the benefit of having a sober minister of our Church settled among them, by the assistance of the Society, which they intend earnestly to request as soon as they can qualify themselves for it, by finishing their church and procuring a glebe. I beg liberty to request a favor from the Society, which may perhaps be of considerable service to me ; the professors of the Church in Connecticut are taxed for the sup-

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port of the minister of the Church in the same proportion as the Congregationalists for the support of their minister. This tax is levied and collected by the Congregationahsts, together with their own, and by them paid to such ministers of the Church as are appointed over them by the Society. Now, Itidgefield and Ridgebury being in Connecticut, the committee appointed for raising and paying the minister's rate at Ridgebury have been in some doubt whether I am entitled to the rates of the Church people there ; because it is certain they -were formerly under Mr. Learning's care, and had no written appointment or anything from under the Society's hand to convince them that the Society had now included them within this mission.