He arrived in New York in ten weeks, during the prevalence of a very fatal sickness, of which twenty persons, on an average, died every day for some months. He was fixed at Westchester by the governor, Lord Cornbury, but found the glebe of one hundred acres "all a wilderness," no part of which had ever been cultivated. He says, November 4th, 1702, " we have a small house built here for public worship of boards, but there is neither desk, pulpit, nor bell in it.'''^

Here follows the Bishop of London's'^ license to John Bartow, clerk.

« In 179i2 the frame work of the old church was sold by order of the vestry to Mrs. Sarah Ferris, widow of Benjamin Ferris, who afterwards converted it into a barn. It is now owned by her son-in-law, Captain E. Hawkins. The frame work measures exactly twenty-eight feet square, according to the specification 147 years ago. The posts are sixteen feet high.

b Hawkins' Hist. Notes of Colonial Church, 276. MS. Letters, vol. i. 1, 55.

■= We take the following extracts from Queen Anne's instructions to Lord Cornbury, dated December 5th, 1702. " Article 6th. And whereas the inhabitants of our said province have of late years been unliappily divided, and by their enmity to each other, our service and their own general welfare have been very much obstructed, you are therefore in the execution of our commission to avoid the engaging yourself in the parties which have been formed amongst them, and to use such impartiality and moderation to all as may best conduce to our service and the good of the colony."