A minister sent by the society to that County with some encouragement for a maintenance to preach and be a schoolmaster would be a great instrument of bringing the youth & others to the Church

W™ Tesey

In Queens County consisting of five towns divided into two parishes and endowed with j£GO, of Ne w- York money per annum, each parish paid "by a tax levied on ail the Inhabitants in the County by Act of General Assembly.

Jamaica. The parish of Jamaica in said County consists of three Towns, Jamaica, JVew Town 8f Flushing.

In the town of Jamaica there is ' a churcli of stone, built by a tax levied on the Inliabitants of the said town by an Act of General Assembly, it has a high spire with a bell, but is not furnished with pulpit, pews or utensils. The Church was built in the street; there is also a house and some land recorded for the parsonage, which was formerly in the possession of the Independent Minister, but now in the possession of the present Incumbent by his Excellency Lord Cornbury's flivor, who has been the great promoter of the church in this Provmce ana especially at tliis place.

In New-Town there is a church built and lately repaired by a tax levied on tlie Inhabitants by an Act of General Assembly : this Church was formerly possessed by a dissenting Minister,

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but he being gone, it is in possession of the present Incumbent by his Excellency's favor.