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 Jlethodists. In 1 752 the Rye Church united with the Synod and thus all the original Puritan Churches of New York, organized in the seventeenth centurj', were combined in one compact Synodical organization. On

possession of churches, glebes and parsonages. This was done, or attempted, at Westchester and East Chester, Rye and Bedford. In Rye only, of all these towns, no church had been built; but a tax was levied ui)on the inhabitants for its erection, and meanwhile the house and lands which had been provided lor a minister and held by a succession of pastors, were taken for the mis-sionary." ("The Presbyterians in the Province of Xew York," Rev. Charles W, Baird, Mug. Amer. Hist., 1879, Vol. HI., Part II.)

-"Colonel Heathcote represents that Morgan was ready to conform. But in this case he wits hasty in judgment. Jlorgan was of tougher tibre than Vesey. He resisterl all the influence brought to bear upon him and remained faithful. He labored for many years as a Presbyterian minister and died in New Jersey in connection with the .Synod of Philadelphia. Rye was taken possession of by Tliom:4s Pritchard and afterwards by Mr. Muirson. and John Jones, pastor of Bedford, was forced to retire to Connecticut after arrest and reprimand before the Council." -- Uriggs' " Purilattinn in Xew York."