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

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was done l)ef()re wliicli because he Avill not do tliey are forming" representations against him, I hope M*" Poyer lias more prudence & justice tlian to be concerned in tliem for to m}' knowledge neither the Church of tliat place nor he in particular have any reasons to arraign Coll Hunter's conduct in that atiair, I was present when lie told me (ami?) the two great patrons of the Dissenters that he thought the Church had the fairest claim That it being a matter of property it must be decided in a regular course of law iji which IM"" Poyer should have liis purse for the carrying of it on ; he has often repeated this to M' Poyer & pressed him to bring it on, assured him of all the countenance and assistance whatsoever that it was j'easonable especially money but whatever is tlie matter they do not care to do it.