He was formerly, for many years together, one of the ministers of the Church of England, in Boston, a religious and worthy man, a very good scholar, and a fine grave preacher. His performances in the puli)it were solid, judicious and profitable, his conversation was agreeable and improving, and though a strict churchman in his principles, yetof great respect and charity to dissenters, and much esteemed by them. He was bred at the University of Cambridge, in England, and was about forty-eight years of age when he died, very much lamented." Extracted from Greenwood's History of King's Chapel.

b This gentleman was the son of Archdeacon Jenny of Wanney town, in the north of Ireland. See Hist, of Narragansett church by VVilkins Updike.

c Mr. Punderson graduated at Yale College in 1726, and was afterwards ordained a Congregational minister over the second church in Groton. In 1732, he came into the Episcopal church, and crossed the Atlantic to be ordained. On his return, he reorganized a church at the village of Poquetannuc, in North Gr3ton, in 1738, which has ever since existed," &c. Mr. Punderson was for some years an itinerant missionary of the " Society for the Propagation of the Gospel," from 1740 to 1750. In 1753-4 he was settled missionary in the towns of Guilford, New Haven and Branford." Ibid.

78 HISTORY OF THE «!

Aug. 1797, Rev. Samuel Haskell, Presb., resig.

April, 1801, Rev. Evan Rogers, Presb., death.

1809, Rev. Samuel Haskell, Presb., resig.

1822, Rev. William Thompson, Presb., death.