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

In the next place I appeal to the evidence of all sober men Clergy or Laity for a testimony of my conduct in my station with relation to that interest but being to guess at the particular facts of which I am accused I can think of none that can so much as afford a pretence for such a representation unless it be the affairs of Jamaica Church, here and that must only be in the opinion of such as think that all laws human & divine are to be set aside when they come in competition with what they conceive to be the secular Interest of the Church.

I see by one of yours that the Society is not unacquainted with the true state of that matter but I must beg leave to inform you so far as I have been concerned in it.

Mf Poyer having the Society's Mission & my Lord Bishop of London's recommendation to that Church I upon his first application granted him induction. The Dissenters were in possession of the Manse house by contrivance of the Widow of M^^ Urquhai-t the former Incumbent whose Daughter was married to a Dissenting Minister there, I consulted the Chief Justice Mompesson how far I might proceed towards putting M'" Poyer in possession who gave his opinion in writing that it could not be done otherwise than by due course of law without a high crime & misdemeanor this opinion I sent to M^ Poyer & begged him to oommence a suit at my cost but heard nothing from liim until