is preaching in the morning at Breuckelen but, towards the qpnclusion of tlie Catechismal exercises of New Amsterdam, at the Bouwery which is a continuation and the place of recreation of the Manhattans, where people also come from the city to Evening Service. In addition to the household there are over forty negroes whose location is the Negro quarter. There is no consistory here, but the deacons of New Amsterdam provisionally receive the ahns offerings, and there are to be neither elders nor deacons there. Besides me there are in New Netherland DD Joannes Megapolensis and Samuel Drisius in New Amsterdam;

110 STATE OF RELIGION.

D. Gideon Scliaets at Fort Orange ; D. Joannes Polemius at Middelwout and N. Amersfort & Hermanns Blom at the Esopus

EARLY CATHOLIC CLERGYMEN IN N. YORK.

Mr. John M. Shea, S. J. has had the politeness to furnish the Editor with tlie following particulars.

College Sie Marie, Montreal, June, 26 1850. My dear sir:

Reading over your Documentary History the other day, I fell upon the letters of Eongan to the government at home, wliicli I had never had time to examine at Albany. These would shew that the offers of Dongan to the Caughnawagas were sincere, and tliat he really designed to give them English Jesuits as their missionavics if tliey would remove into the English territory near Saiafoga. Eut a still stronger proof is to be found in the Roman C;italogue of the Society of Jesus, by which it appears that Fat'iicr Thomas Harvey, S. J. a native of London was in New York from 1683 to 1G90, and subsequently in 1C96, the interval being spent in Maryland wdiere he died in 1719 .Etat. 84. Fatlier Henry Harrison, S. J. was in N. York in 1685 and returned to Ireland in 1690, and in Maryland 'm 1697.' Father Charles Gage, S.