The number of people there are, I *)elieve, about 2,400 souls. They have abundance of odd kinds of laws to prevent any dissenting from tlieir church, and endeavor to keep the people in as much bhndness and unacquaintedness with any other religion as possible; But in a more particular manner the Church, looking upon her the most dangerous enemy they have to grapple with all. And abundance of pains is taken to make the ignorant think as bad as possible of her. And I really believe that more than half the people in that Government, think our Church to be little better than the Papist. And they fail not to improve every little thing against us. But I bless God for it, the Society have robbed tliem of their best argument, which was the ill lives of our clergy that came unto these parts. And the truth is, I have not seen many good men but of the Society's sending.

And no sooner was that Honourable Body settled, and those prudent measures taken for carrying on of that great work, but the people of Connecticut doubting of maintaining their ground, without some further su])port, they with great industry went through their Colony for subscriptions to build a College at a place called Seabrook. And tlie Ministers, who are as absolute in their respective parishes as the Pope of Eome, argued, prayed and preached up tlie necessity of it; and the passive obedience people who dare not do otherwise than obey, gave even beyond tiieii- ability. A thing which they call a College was prepared accordingly, wherein as I am informed a commencement was made about tliree or four months ago. But notwithstanding their new College here, and old one in Boston, and that every town in that Colony has one, and some, two ministers, and have not only heard them say, but seen it in their prints, that there was no place in the world where the Gospel shone so brightly,