Witness our trusty and well beloved Robt. Monckton, our captain general and governor-in-chief of our province of New York and the territories depending thereon in America, vice admiral of the same and major-general of our forces at our fort in our city of New York, by and with the advice and consent of \^0L. II. 28

■218 HISTORY OF THE

our governor for our said province. Second day of December, in the year A. D. 1762, and of our reign the third."

Signed Clarke.

[L. s.] - -■ ; '

Upon the 7th of July, 1764, the church wardens of the parish, stated to the Propagation Society, " that they have purchased a glebe of near thirty acres with a house, which will cost them in the whole, near £700, and that whole families of Quakers have conformed to the church." On the 8th of July, Mr. Milner informed the same body, that he had at his own expense, laid out £200 on the parsonage, built a new barn and out houses, &c., (fcc, and further added, that he had appointed Mr. Nathaniel Seabury, a son of the late worthy missionary, at Hempstead, schoolmaster.

" In 1766, (says Mr. Hawkins) Mr. Seabury intimated to the society, his wish to accept the offer of the mission of Westchester, which was made to him by the churchwardens and vestry, and the society consenting to this proposal, he removed thither at the end of the year 17136.1^

His average congregation at this place, was about 200 ; and he states, that one of the means which he adopted of communicating religious instruction to the people, was preaching at funerals in the more remote districts, whereby he had the opportunity of addiessing those who could not be brought together at any other time. In 1776 he was seized by a party of the disaffected in arms, and carried off to New Haven, all his papers being examined for proof against him.