The several Churches belonging to my Cure (as those of Jamaica, Newtown & Flushing) are in a very peaceable & growing state, whilst other seperate Assemblies in this Parish are in the utmost confusion k this I can write with a great deal of

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truth that Independency which has been triumphant in this town for the -10 j^ears last past is now by the providence of God in a very faint & declinyig condition wliich gives'us hopes that better Principles than sucii as issue out tlience will generally prevail amongst us & tliat we shall be better united than heretofore.

Revi Sir &« &,°

TlIO* COLGAN.

* THE SAME TO THE SAME.

. Jamaica Srpt 29th 1716

Rev*^ Sir -- These are to acquaint the Venerable Society that my endeavours in the work of my Mission are by tlie blessing of God attended with success a late & remarkable instance whereof we have in the conformity of a Family of good repute in y« Town from Independency to the Doctrine discipline and Government of our Church which considering all circumstances may be thought worthy of notice

In my, letter of the 26 March last' I gave information to the Society of our being in a very hkely way of having a Clmrch erected in the town of Flushing a place generally inhabited by Quakers & by some who are of no religion at all whicli indeed has all along from the first settlement of the town been a great obstruction and discouragement to an undertaking of tliis kind but now by the kind providence of God (who has laised up Friends & money for the purpose) the work is actually begun so that I have hopes of performing divine Service in this new Church in about 3 months time and also that the Society will bestow upon it a Bible & Common Prayer Book according to their usual bounty for certainly there can be no set of People within this Province who are greater objects of the Society's pity & charity than those belonging to the town of Flushing of which I have been so truly sensible that it has brouglit me (if I may be! peri! itted thus to express it) to double my diligence iii that