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.

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Castle to fall congregations and had then baptized eleven children and three adults."^ At a vestry meeting of this parish held at Mr. Benjamin Brown's, sen., in Rye, .January 16lh 1749, the Rev. James Wetmore delivered the following letter, from the Rev. Philip Bearcroft, D. D., secretary to the Honorable Propagation Society.

London, Charier House, June 27, 1749. Gents : --

It is with much concern that the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts are informed that your cJuircIi and the parsonage house are very much out of repair, and that even the possession of the glebe is disputed against your very worthy pastor Mr. Wetmore, whose great pains and abilities in the cause of God's church, cannot but recommend him to every worthy member of it. Therefore the Society hope and expect that upon due consideration you will give orders for the full repair of the church and the parsonage house, and defend Mr. Wetmore in the maintenance of all his just rights, as you desire his longer continuance among you,