Robert Jenney, chaplain of the forces of this province, who is willing to relinquish his place in the forces to settle amongst us and become our minister, provided he can have your honours' favor and bounty for his encouragement. We have taken ye liberty lo give him a call, as ye act of assembly of this province empowers us, (which is enclosed to your honours,) humbly praying for your approbation, of what we have done, and that you will please lo grant unto him as our minister, ye favour and bounty, being a person whose conversation, preaching, and diligence in his holy function we are well acquainted and satisfied with. We are confident that his residence amongst us will effectually reconcile all our differences, and heal all our breaches, occasioned by our being so long in want of a faithful and prudent pastor to guide and instruct us. That God Almighty will prosper your honours' pious and charitable endeavours for the service of his church in this wilderness, and that he will grant unto every one of you the choisest of his blessings, temporal and eternal, is the hearty prayer of

May it please your honours, your honours' most dutiful and most obedient humble servants. Signed by order,

John Carhart, Clerk.*

The Rev. Robert Jenney, minister of Rye, writing to the Propagation Society in 1723, observes, "that he has several other townships under his charge, and that since his admission in 1722, he has baptized ten adults and fifty children ; number of conmiunicants twenty-six."'' In 1724 Mr. Jenney reported "the baptism of two adults and several children ; communicants twenty-eight. c A. D. 1725,<i the quotas of the various districts stood thus: