Tennent and his adherents were excluded from the Synod of Philadelphia in 1741, in the absence of the entire Presbytery of New York. The excluded Methodists rallied around the Presbytery of New Brunswick, and in 1745 it combined with the Presbytery of New York in erecting the Synod of New York, all of whose churches were in sympathy with the Methodists. In 1 7r)2 the Rye Church united with the Synod and thus all the original Puritan Churches of New York, organized in the seventeenth century, were combined in one compact Synodical organization. On

possession of churches, glches and parsonages. This was done, or attempted, at Westchester and East Chester, Kye and Bedford. In Rye only, of all these towns, no church had been ljuilt ; hut a tax was levied ujwu the inhabitants for its erection, and meanwhile the house and lands which had been i)rovided for a minister and held by a succession of pastors, were taken for the missionary. ' ("The Presliyterians in the Province of New York," Kev. Charles W. Baird, M,ig. Amer. JIM., 1879, Vol. III., Part II.)

2 "Colonel Heathcote represents that Morgan «us ready to conform. But in this case he wits hasty in judgment. Morgan was of tougher fibre than Vesey. He resisted all the influence brought to bear upon him and remained faithful. He labored for many years as a Presbyterian mini.ster and died in New Jersey in connection with the ."Synod of Philadelphia. Rye was taken possession of Iiy Thomas Pritcliard and afterwards by Mr. Muirson. and John Jones, pastor of Bedford, was forced to retire lo Connecticut after arrest and reprimand before the Council." -- JlrU/tjs' " Puritanimi iti Xew York."