Under date of September 2Sth, 1741, he observes " that by God's help the church maintains her ground notwithstanding the efforts of the sectaries in new melhodism. He had baptized within a year sixty-nine children and six adults, &c."''

In 1745 Mr. Wetmore writes " that he is fully occupied in performing duty at Rye, Scarsdale and the White Plains, and begs for an assistant to officiate under him. At Bedford and North Castle there are four hundred families, &c."c

The same year Mr. Joseph Lamson was appointed assistant to Mr. Wetmore with a salary of £20 ; a gratuity of £20 was also made by the society, "out of compassion to Mr. liamson's sufferings and necessities, who was taken prisoner, shipped and carried into France on his voyage towards England, and afterwards on his way from Port Louis in France, to London, was detained seven months by a fever at Salisbury. Mr. Lamson undertook the voyage to England for the purpose of obtaining Episcopal ordination. fi In his first reports dated May 12th, 1746, Mr. Lamson writes '• that he officiates by turns at Bedford and North

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d Some idea (says the Rev. M. H. Henderson,) of tlie great disadvantages unde? which tlie church labored during our colonial existence, may be formed from the fact, that beside the great e.\pense of the voyage, (JCIOO,) an expense which candidates for holy orders could ill afford to bear, nearly one-fifth of all that went to England for ordination died, cither from small-pox, or the dangers of the deep. •' The number who had gone to England for ordination from the northern colonies, up to 1767, was 52 : of these 42 only returned safely. Henderson's Centennial Discourse.