Witness our trusty and well beloved Cadwallader Golden, Esquire, our Lieutenant Governor and Commander-in-chief of our Province of New York, and territories thereon in America, at our Fort in our city of New York, by and with the advice and consent of our Council for our said province, the nineteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand, seven hundred and sixty four, and of our reign the fifth. First skin, line the fortieth, the words or with and second skin, line the twenty -seventh, the word is are interlined.

Clarke.

August 27, 1765. The Rev. Epiiraim Avery was appointed to the mission of Rye.

In 1773, Mr. Avery's notitia parochialis stood thus: baptized 90 infants, adults G, colored infants 5 ; marriages 5; burials 10.

On the 5ih of June, 1776, he informs the Society, " that he has lost the use of his right hand, and therefore is incapable of writing and sending an account of his parish.

"The persecutions and privations to which the clergy were exposed (says^ ^Dr. Hawkins,) in the war, whether from the Royalist or American armies proved fatal to several of them. At Rye, Mr. Avery was a principal sufferer ; his horses were seized, his cattle driven off, and his property plundered. His death, by some supposed to have been occasioned by these losses, happened soon afterwards.''^

» Hawkins' Hist. Not. Col. Church, 281. Mr. Avery was a step-son of Uie celebrated General Putnam. -- Editor.

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