Townsend is constant in the performance of his duty in his own parish and preaches frequently in the parts adjacent. From Lady Day to Michaelmas he baptized twenty-one infants and one adult, and admitted two new communicants. "& The abstracts for 1776 add : "That one letter from Mr. Townsend on September 20th. 1775. gives the same account of his mission, in which he hath baptized thirty infants, buried seven, and married three couple in the preceding half year."c

The last communication the Society received from Mr. Townsend was in June, 1777, soon after he had been compelled to leave the scene of his labors by the threatening state of affairs.

MR. TOWNSEND TO THE SECRETARY.

"Salem, Province of New York, Juxe, A.D. 1777.

" Rev. Sin: -- From the first existence of the present rebellion, I could -- give the Honorable Society no account of my conduct with respect to public affairs-- because my distance from New York, and the excessive vigilance of the Rebel committees in getting and examining all letters, rendered such a step extremely dangerous ; but, being now, by God's good Providence, banished from among the Rebels for my loyalty to his Majesty, I think it my duty to give the Honorable Society a short account of my conduct, from the beginning of these troubles, and of the treatment I have met with from the Rebels.

" In the latter part of the year 1773, and the beginningof 1774, 1 strongly suspected that the leaders of the opposition to government in America were aiming at Independence, and the Eastern Provinces, at the subversion of the Church, likewise:'' and that in pursuit of those ends, they would, if possible, influence the people to a revolt ; but when the first Congress approved the rebellious resolves of the County of Suffolk in Massachusetts Bay, I had no longer any doubt of their intentions.