John Wallace and Ebenezer Lobdell, church-wardens of the parish : " That the above mentioned articles were left with him for safe keeping, and that St. James' church might have them by sending an order for that purpose. The Rev. David Perry was accordingly deputed to receive them in the name of the vestry." " At a society meeting legally warned and holden at the Independent School House," in Ridgefield, "on the 1 8th day of April, 1803, voted -- that the Society meeting desire Dr. Perry to deliver to Epenetus Wallace and Joshua Purdy, Esq., of North Salem, the Library of Books which are in his care, and which he , received of Dr. Moore of the city of New York, being those books which were sent by the Missionary Society in England for the use of Mr. Townsend."*
The Rev. Micajah Townsend, (son of Micah, youngest brother of the Rev. Epenetus Townsend,) of Clarenceville, Canada East, in a letter ada The Rev. Dr. Inglis, the rector of Trinity church, N. Y., reports : ■' That the state of the clergy of New YorK is much the same; and with the aforementioned losses, is to be lamented that of Mr. Townsend, missionary at Salem, who with all his family was lost la a ship which sank in its passage to Halifax.'' 8;>cietv's abstracts for 1 7 T9.
b Rec. of 11 rst Episcopal Soc., Ridgelleid, CoiUi., June, 1784, Liber I.
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dressed to the author, says : " A few ancient theological books had strayed from the library of my uncle Epenetus to that of my father, and are now in my possession."