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

The week Ibllowing I did set out for this place where to this time I have not ceased (aecording to the ability that Gcd hath given me) to instruct tlie Flock committed to my charge I have laboured faithfully in my Lords Vineyard and in my private advice from House to House as well as public discourses I have exhorted tlicm to faith in Christ and amendment of life and to live in Love I have likewise endeavoured to possess tliem with as due a sense of the fundamentals of our religion as I could and the Great God has vouchsafed to give such a blessing to my poor yet well nieaning endeavours the number of the communicants of the Church of England here before my time never exceeded 30 I have had above CO -- of the Independents who are the most numerous in my parish I have gained some and of the Quakers more some that were very rigid Indeperidejits since I came and that have reflected very much on our Church and constitution are now very frequently my hearers; and among the Quakers where my predecessor M'" Urquhart tliought it not worth his while to go I seldom have so few as fifty and often more than one hundred bearers.

And notwithstanding I have all along discharged the duties

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of a Paris!i Minister yet have I never received one penny of the Salary due to me by the laws of the Colony h.ow to come by it I can't tell; and Avitliout it or an augmentation of my Salary from my Right Hon'"^e & Riglit Rev^ Patrons I cannot live in t'lis dear place. I live very near much below the character of a Missionary and yet am running myself in debt.