Wright Post, of Throgg's Neck, addressed to my mother and by her repeated to me regarding the talented Ann Eliza, 'She has gone over to the church that per8ecut<;d her ancestors.' As we now look back over the seven decades that have gone by since that day, we may safely say that no change of ecclesiastical relations on the part of an individual has stirred ' society ' at the time' with questions so keenly conducting or has been effective of influences more widely felt in the homes of the coiintry.

" To many, even personal friends, the change seemed inexplicable ; a mystery, a fact untraceable to any adequate cause. Numerous and earnest were the questionings as to what influences had been secretly working at the starting-point of this new career. By some, esjiecially those who had been associated with her from childhood in the communion of ' dear old Trinity,' the explanation was found in the sensibility of her

1 When ■ first penning the closing lines of this paragraph, the writer supposed that there was still occasion in alluding to the designation of the island, to use the phrase, its fui-mer mum;. Since then we have welcomed the intelligence that since the estate has jias-sed into the hands of Mr. C. Oliver Iselin, the old familiar name, "Hunter's Island," whereby our sires and grandsires knew the place, has been restored and chiselleil upon the granite pillars of the causeway,-- a work of good taste in which we all have a common interest.