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Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. III

O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. III. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1850. 266 words

against liis Lordship to remove liim from liis Government every Act of Government was to be nicely scann'd and amongst the rest this Order of his Lordship was called an arbitrary k unjust Order and a turning a man out of his possession by force (tho' in fact no force was) and it is concieved that WiU"i Urquhart by his induction to the Church must take all that belongs to it particularly the parsonage so that M^" Hubbards delivery of it w^as conceived rightfull & what by law he ought to have done. These Clamours stirred up the more rigid and obstinate of the Independents to claim the Church as built by them the majority in number to the Churchmen but nothing was attempted against the Church during that noble Lord's Government.

But after his removal by the arrival of Lord Lovelace Tliat Dormant claim of the Independents did not want its secret and open abettors as well to blacken the Lord Cornbury's administration in that particular and to increase the number of petitions and complaints his enemies had prepared against them as also to destroy the established Church that had been peaceably enjoyed so many years, accordingly the Cliiefs of that sect in 1709 presented a Memorial to the Lord Lovelace prajing to be relieved therein. The which M'" Urquhart fidly answered but before that could come to a hearing the Lord Lovelace feU sick and soon after died, nothing being determined in the matter. Thus tlie affairs of this Church stood till the death of M»' Urquhart who died in August the same year.