Its lying dormant so long is a plaine Indication of ye opinion of the Dissenters themselves in favour of the Church, flbr if that act was made for the Dissenters (wliich they doe now against ail reason assert) why did they never mal^e use of it in all that time & thereby put an end to the continued & endless contentions they have had with their ministers many of which are not yet paid by them.

363 PAPERS RELATING TO CHURCHES IN QUEENS COUNTY.

*REy» M^ POYER

TO THE SECRETARY OF THE SOC: FOR PROP: THE GOSPEL.

Jamaica on L Island March 7 1712 Sir

I Imiiibly beg the Venerable Society will be pleased to accept of these sincere tender of my hearty acknowledgement for their most favorable acceptation of the state of the Church in this place contained in the Clergy's Memorial, for the manifestation of their pious concern for tliis Infant Church and their very land letter to us and I desire and shall always endeavour submissively to submit to their commands and unblameably to demean myself with a true Xtian temper.

I hoped to have done this in conjunction with the rest of my Brethren at a meeting proposed to be at Burlington tlie S^i day of this Instant intended as I presume for the very end, but was prevented by an order from our Governor Coll Hunter to meet at a Convention of the Clergy at New York on the 24'^ of February preceding, the design of which convention (as might reasonably have been expected) should in tliis point have concurred witli that of the meeting at Burlington but finding not that but other private particular ends was proposed after a weeks stay from my parish in a very expensive place (therefore also unagreeable with my circumstances) I withdrew myself from 'em and because his Excellency in his Speech had resented some harsh words; I had in the midst of my difficulties made use of in a Letter to his Grace the Lord Ai'chp of York I thought it my duty liumbly to beg his pardon for the indecent mamier of expressing 'em which I did by a letter whereof I herewith present you a copy.