The Independents here being the most numerous do annually choose the Church Wardens & Vestry out of those of their own persuasion who are the most inveterate against the Church, every freeholder having a vote by Virtue of an Act of Assembly for settling the Ministry made in the year 1693 in whicli act there is a clause empowering them to call a Minister, the act also provides that such a Minister shall be inducted & established to entitle him to the'Salary of J£60 per annum given by the same Act.

Now tliis Dissenting Vestry & Church W^ardens have (as no other could be expected of them) after the deatli of the Rev*l Ml" Urquhart (who enjoyed the Glebe & Salary undistured for about six years) called one M"" Geo : M^Nish who because of that call has seized upon tiie Parsonage House & Glebe pretends to all and has acturally received some part of the said Salary. This call is the only argument on which they insist & on pretence wliereof they defraud t!ie rightful minister both of the Glebe and Salary contrary to tlie knovfn laws and continued practice of all the other places in this Province tliat stand upon the same foundation. To confute therefore their absurd notion tiie case may be stated th.us. In Feby 1 7p2 the Vestry & Cliurch Wardens (being as always Dissenters) called one M^' Hubbard a Dissenting Minister (one whom some of us have lieard declare it a sin to say the Lord's Prayer). In the year 1704 M^ Urquliart was sent here by the Venerable Society & Eishop of London and was immediately inducted and established by the then Governor of this Province the said call given to M"" Hubbard (who never did oificiate as Minister of the Parish) being deemed to be invalid, because the person called was not qualified to accept & tliis