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.

In a letter of May 6th, 1761, Mr. Timothy Wetmore complains to the Society, " that since the death of his father they had not been ffivored with a sermon, or either of the sacraments, for six or ei^ht months.''^

» The last will of James Wetmore, clerk, bears date Nov, H.^O. Surrogate's office, N. Y. Lib. xxii. 123. )i Reports of Propagation Soc.

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After a vacancy of nearly two years the mission was again filled by the appointment of the Rev. Ebenezer Piinderson.a In 1763 this gentleman informs the Society " that since writing his last letter, besides two-thirds of the Sundays at Rye, and the other third at White Plains, North Castle and Bedford, he had been twice to Crampond and once to Croton, he had also baptized nineteen adults and ninety-two children."

Mr. Punderson died in 1764. The following inscription is taken from his monument in the grave yard.

; Sacred to the Memory . . '

of the , ' Rev. Ebenezer Punderson,

late Missionary to the Rev. Society for