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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.

In 1771, the Rev. Luke Babcock was recommended by the clergy of New York, "being lately ordained by the bishop of London, as a proper person for a missionary. And Colonel Philipse having requested that the mission of Philipsborough formerly filled by the Rev. Harry Munro, should be renewed ; and the Colonel having made a proper provision for the maintenance of a minister, with the assistance of the society, they have accordingly appointed the Rev. Luke Babcock to the mission with a salary of £30.

The youngest son of Doctor Joshua Babcock, of Westerly Narragansett (observes Mr. Updike) was the Rev. Luke, "an Episcopal clergyman at Philips's Manor, on the Hudson, where he died, leaving a wife and several children. Hawkins, in his historical notices of the missions of the Church of England, says: "another victim of ill treatment already mentioned, was the Rev. Luke Babcock, missionary at Philipsborough. He was seized by the insurgents, his papers were examined, and because he answered affirmatively to the question, whether he considered himself bound by his oath of allegiance to the king, lie was deemed an enemy to the liberties of Americn, and ordered to be kept in custody. ^ After four month's confinement, his health gave way, and he was then dismissed with a written order to remove within the lines of the king's army.