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. J. was also employed there in 1686 and 7. It is very possible tliat these two last named may have been sent for by Dongan to carry out his promise, and that one of them may have opened the very suspicious Latin school, which Smith surmises was kept by a Jesuit.

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A late English work, " Collections towards illustrating the biography of tlie Scotch, English and Irish members of the Society of Jesus, by the Rev^ Dr Oliver; London, Dolman 18-45," has the following on these :---Harvey, Thomas ; Younger brother of

1 The catalogue sa5-s,-- <'16",S5. In missione ad Nov: Eboracum sunt duo saccnlotes, Vivunt ex puris elecmosynis et sunt P. Harvosus et P. II. Harrisonus."

STATE OF RELIGION. Ill

John H. I believe, born in London 1635, at the age of 20 joined the society after wliich he escapes my observation.

" Harrison, Henry ; all that I can collect of him is, that he died in 1701,cet49. Soc. 28.

"Gage Charles ; half brother, I suspect,* to Sir Henry Gage the brave commcUider at Oxford. That lie was stationed at Nurwich in the reign of James H. is certain, for we read in tlie annual letters whicli report the State of Religion antecedent to the revolution, 'At Norwich the Capital of Norfolk was a very celebrated cliapel wliere F.