Two years afterward he was much more cheerful and wrote about making "many proselytes to our holy religion, who are very constant and devout in their attendance on divine j service ; and those who were enemies at my first coming are now zealous professoi-s of the ordinances of ' our church." '< January 10. 1709, Joseph Hunt, Jr., and Jeremiah I Fowler were chosen wardens, and Miles Oakley, Thomas Baxter, Sr., and Thomas Hunt vestrymen for the town. It is a curious fact that the majority were dis.senters, of whom the minister wrote that " they will part with no money but barely what the Assembly has allowed for the maintenance of the ministers and poor;" but yet his congregation " rather increases both in hearers and communicants," and in 1709 lie baptized forty-two persons, and thirty-six the next year. In 1724 he had in his parish two hundred families, and the average attendance on afternoon services on Sunday was seventy, the morning attendance being smaller. He died at Westchester in 1726, having firmly established his church and also a public school. The first schoolmaster was Charles Glover, who was appointed by the Gospel Propagation Society in 1713, he being " recommended under the character of a person sober and diligent, well aftected to the Church of England, and competently skilled in reading, writing, arithmetic, psalmody and the Latin tongue." The society paid him a salary of £18 annually. His successor was William Foster, who had the school when Bartow died.