Wetmore acquaints the Society " that a very worthy person, a native of England, i' but now being in New York had put into his hands £600 currency, of which he reserves to himself the interest during life, and hath left by his will £400 more to be added after his death, to purchase a convenient glebe, and other liberal legacies.''^

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St. George Talbot, Esq., see vol. i. 95.

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The Rev. James Wetmore died on the 15th of May, 1760, J*- having been nearly thirty-four years minister of this church. His remains repose in the old parish burial ground, on the north-west side of Blind brook. A plain monumental tablet marks the spot and bears the following inscription.

. _ Sacred to the memory

of the

- R E V, .1 A M E S W E T M O R E,

The late, worthy, learned and faithful

Minister of the Parish of Rye,

for above thirty years, who having

strenuously defended the Church

with his pen, and adorned it by his life

^' and doctrine, at length being seized

■ " <- of the small pox, departed this

life. May 15, 1760. JEtatis, 65.

Cujus memoria3 sit in

Benedictione sempiterna.

Mr. Wetmore left issue two sons, Timothy, afterwards attorney general of the province of New Brunswick, and James, of Rye; descendants of the latter are still living in the town. Also four daughters, Alethea, wife of the Rev. Joseph Lamson, Anna, wife of Gilbert Brundage, Charity, wife of Josiah Purdy, from whom descend the Purdys of Rye, and Esther who married first David Brown, and secondly Jesse Hunt, Esq. high sheriff of this county in 1780.