The Inhabitants of this County are generally Indepen's @ what are not so are either Quakers or of no professed Religion at all the generality averse to the discipline of our holy mother the Church of England & enraged to see her Ministry established among them : The ancient settlers have transplanted tlieniselves from New England & do still keep a close correspondence & are buoyed up by Schismatical Instructions from that Interest which occasion all the disturbance & opposition w^e meet with in both our parishes. They have hitherto been used to a Dissenting INIinistry & they still support one at Jamaica who has a most pestilential influence over our people, who from their cradles were disaffected to conformity yet we bless God we have not been altogether unsuccessful! having brought over some of the most rigid of them into close communion & hope thro' Gods assistance in sometime to have a more plentiful harvest among them, their prejudice of education is our misfortune Our Church their Bugbear, and to remove that averseness they imbibed at their first principles must be next to a miracle. His Excellency my Lord Cornbury is a true nursing father to our infancy here, his countenance & protection never wanting to us & next to heaven we may attribute the success of our endeavoui"s to the favorable influences of his Government where inclination as a true son of the Church moves him zealously to support that Interest. This is the true state of affairs witMn our Parishes. We have Sixty pounds this Country money settled very precariously which by my liOrd Cornbury's influence we hope wiU be more firmly established by this