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Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. III

O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. III. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1850. 304 words

" 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. Charles Gage excited a wonderful sensation by his sermons, and laboured so zealously in that Vineyard that the faithful unanimously addressed a letter of thanks to the Father Provincal for having provided them with such a distinguished preacher*' "

A SUMMARY ACCOUNT

OF THE STATE OF THE CHURCH IN THE- PROVINCE OF KEW YORK, AS IT WAS LAID BEFORE THE CLERGY, CONVENED OcTOB 5tH 1701, AT NK-W YORK, BY THE APPOINTMENT OF HIS EXCELLENCY EDWARD, LORD CORNBURY, AND COLONEL FRANCIS NICHOLSON. [Hawks' Church Rec]

In this Province are ten Counties. First New York, in whicli tiiere is an English Church, called and known by tJie name of Trinity church, already built, and the steeple raised to a considerable iieight by the voluntary contributions of several persons, a full account v/hereof has been given in a- former sclieme to my Lord of London. The JRector of this Church is maintained by a tax levied upon all the Inliabitants of the city, amounting

*If this suspicion be correct, he is also brother to the apostate Thos. Gage, the author of the New Surve)' of the West Indies, a curious book much pillaged by niodern travellers. He was a friar, but fell so low as to become priest taker, and even betrayed the illustrious Father Peter Wright, S. J. while the latter was chaplain in his brother's house.