I hope the Honorable Society will be pleased to consider the difficulties T struggle with, that my family may be supported and not lie under the discountenance of those who are only pretended friends to the Established

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Chiirc'i, I have acquainted the Right Honorable the Bishop of London of ray writing to t!ie Society

I remain |1

Honom*ed Sir, yours &*' (

I Thqs Poyer

*MESS^ ROBINSON & REYNOLDS TO THE SAME.

London 13 June 171 1.

Sir -- We dj herewith send you the passage we read out of M Cotton Matlier's Letter as you desii-ed your mo. lible st^

B. Robinson ' Tiios Reynolds

The passage was as follows:

If I may witliout offence extend my intelligence as far as the neighbour Colonies, and those particularly tliat are under the Government of New York, I am credibly informed that in many towns tiiere tliey have no Minister at all. In t'le Jersey's particularly there are at least seven towns that have no public worship of God in them.

At t'.ie jame time tliere is a town called Jamaica on Long Island under the Governnjent afbrtsaid a Town consisting of considerably above an hundred iamil'.es, and exemplary for all christian knowledge & goodness & a church with a worthy Pastor in it, about half a scoi-e families (and of a meaner character) in tiie Town declared for the Church of England & thereupon a Minister of tlieir profession was sent to tliem (one Urquhart) who is maintained by the af »resaid Society ; but this little company having the advantage (right or wrong) to be uppermost, took away from the Dissenters (if it be proper to call such a disproportionate number so) their meeting house computed to be worth six hundred pounds, and compelled them to build another.