We beg your Lordship to believe that nothing herein contained is designed as the least reflection upon any person it being only the ti-ue plain matter of fact and which we could not out of a diie regard to the interests of the Church & to your Lorilshipsomit the transmitting to your Lordship that if the s^ effect we justly fear should happen to be the consequence of these tlungs We may clear ourselves before God & man as having done what was possible for us to prevent it.

All of wliicli is hujubly submitted to your Lordships prudent consideration by

PAPERS RELATING TO CHURCHES IN QIJEENS COUNTY. 233

May it please yom^ Lordsliip your Lordsiiips most dutifu] & obedient Sons and liumble Servants Thos Poyer Eector of the parish of Jamaica & precinct Wm Vesey Rector of the parish of New York Jno Bartow Rector of the parish & precinct of Westchester Evan Evans Rector of Philadelphia John Talbot of Burlington Aneas McKenzie of Staten Island Jacob Henderson Minister of Dover hundred John Thomas Rector of Hempstead New York 13 Novemb"- 1711.

* COLL. MORRIS TO THE SECRETARY.

New York New Yearsday 1711

***** '•'M'- Boyse complains that he has given bond for some books to the Society for the Library at Harlem* which M*- Poyer has and detains from him having given bonds for the same books. Having mentioned M- Poyer it naturally leads me to give you some account of the Church at Jamaica on Long Island, it being under his care ; there is a great disagreement there between the Church and the Di'^senters about the Cbu'Th ?T?d the rir?onr'>^ house each calling them theirs the parsonage house was in the possession of the Dissenters till sometime after the arrival of M^ Urquhart and the Dissentei-s were put out of possession by a Warrant from my Lord Cornbury without any more ado this short way of proceeding so contrary to law very much alarmed the Dissenters and encreased their prejudices against the Cliurch, Urquhart was not long lived, after his death his Widows Daughter by another husband marries a dissenting minister who was put by his mother in law into possession of the parsonage house and grounds ; the fraud of this woman was a great surprise to tliose of the Clmrch and added fresh fuel to tliose flames that before raged with too much fury I'm told some of them expected Coll Hunter would take the same short method in their favor that