to the parsonage house but could get no admittance whereupon a second record of forcible detainer was made by the Justice on his own view and Warrant issued to the Sheriff to apprehend the offenders & to keep them till they should be delivered by due course of law but the Sheriff' who had been lately appointed hj the President & Council in the room of tiie former deceased being a strong Independent told the Justices his conscience would not let him do it by wiiich means the ofienders have as jet escaped punishment and M'^ Poyer kept out of his possession of the parsonage and glebe.
And here it may not be improper to remember that in Febj 1702 the Cluu'chwai'dens & vestrymen the major part of w^hich w^ere Dissenters called M"" John Hubbard aforesaid to be Minister of the said precinct but he never officiated and the Lord Cornbury then Governor here (knowing the said W™ Hubbard not qualified to accept of the said call and tliat the Cliurchwardens & vestry had lost their right of presenting by calhng an unqalified person) on the arrival of M' Urquhart in the year 1704 inducted him into the said Church & parsonage whicli act of his Lordship w^as so far from being thought irregular that the General assembly by tlie before recited explanatory Act made in the year 1705 allowed of the same by ordering tlie salary to him.
In a short time after the death of M»' Urquliart the Churchwardens & vestry (tho new ones yet all independents) in tlie same manner called one M^ George Macnish a Dissenting Itinerant preacher who being as much if not more uijquahfied to accept or officiate than M'' Hubbard the present Governor M' Hunter ordered M"" Poyer to be inducted into the said Church and its appurtenances which was accordingly done by the Rev^ M'^ Sharp Chaplain of the forces here on the 18 July 1710.