The Presbyterians by the sly tricks k quirks of the common Law got the Church, the Parsonage house & lands into their possession & now they are resolved to deprive the next Missionary of <£G0 currency settled as a yearly Salary by an Act of Assembly. The next Missionary may depend upon it he must either engage in a law suit against the Dissenters or throw up the Salary above mentioned; and if he is not a man of tolerable good sense and resolution, they will get lug

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Salary also into tlieir possession and tliat Mission ^vill be entirely lost. J thank God I am very well beloved by all the Gentlemen of sense honor and virtue in this Province k if the Honb'« Society will be pleased to nominate me as Missionary in the room of M^" Poycr By the assistance of God the merit of a good cause & a laithful application no doubt but that 1 shall be able to obtain tlijs continuation of the Salary to the Missionary of Jamaica and perliaps recover what is already lost notwithstanding the number cunning and power of our adversaries this I leave to the consideration of the Society & hope they will either remove me to Jamaica or by a yearly bounty put me on an equal footing with my neighbouring Missionaries which I am persuaded will be thought botii a modest and a reasonable request. Ee so good as to liiy this before the Society at their next meeting which will add very much to your former favors of this kind. Iam&,«