The people of West Chester were verj' angry with me because I was for having this County divided into three Parishes, and evei-y Minister to have =£70 instead of .£50. and I had brought the County except that place to a willingness to have it so, as I formerly acquainted you, and had they permitted that projection to have taken place it would have been a great ease to the Society; for fii'st, what M"" Bartow had more than the £bO. he now hath, miglit reasonably have been deducted at home ; Secondly, M"" Bondet would have been provided forj And thii'dly, one M-" Morgan who was Minister of East Chester promised me to conform ; that there would not have been occasion of another being sent to us, and by that means have saved £bO. a year more

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at home, and wliolly out of all hopes of any. dissenting Minister getting footing amongst us, and it will never be well until we are in three parishes ; and I shall not fail, w^hen I have a fair opportunity, to push for it again. And to satisfy you of the reasonableness in what I offer, I beheve there has not six pubhc taxes been laid on this County by the Assembly this fifteen years past, but I have been at the proportioning of, and when the places in Rye parish pay =£50. the town in West Chester parish were allotted ,£120. and there are two places more, which both together are one tliird as big as Rye Parisli which ai-e now in neither of them.