"That at the expense of himself and family there is now erected on the Manor of PhiJipshorough a handsome stone church completely finished, and every thing necessary for the decent performance of divine service prepared, that about three quarters of a mile from the church he has laid out and appropriated two hundred and fil'ty acres of excellent arable and wood land for a glebe for the minister for ever, and that he fully intends as soon as ihey are happy to have a worthy clergyman of the Church of England settled among them, to build him a genteel and handsome house upon said glebe, the materials for which are now providing, and which will cost at least i;400. He therefore earnestly requests the society to send them a missionary,'*that he and his tenants, nearly one hundred and fifty families, may be no longer destitute of the worship of the Church of England."

The board taking this letter into consideration have appointed the Rev. Harry Munro,'^ a gentleman recommended to tliem by all the clergy of New Jersey and the Rev. Messrs. Charlton and Auchmuty at Perth Amboy, September 20th, 1764, and by other

constable of the Yonkers appears, with a receipt from Mr. Bartow, bearing date ye 21 May, 1714-15 suice the year 1702, as the minister's rate with the coUecliou allowed, &c. ^ Vol. i. 315.

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very ample testimonials to he the society's missionary at Philipsborough, with a salary of £30 per annum.

June 8th, 1765, Mr. Munro himself, writes, "that on his arrival at his mission, he found everything promising and agreeable, a neat church (always kept in good repair by Col. Frederick Philipse and family) and a decent congregation, materials already for a parsonage, the glebe well fenced, plenty of wood, and a sufficient quantity of arable land.