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

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

1 No copy of said Letter in MSS.

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place where error & impiefj greatly abound nor liave I been wanting (thro' the Divine assiskmce) in tlie other parts & duties of my Mission for tlie space of almost one and twenty years to approve myself a faithful Labourer k my trust in God is that I shall continue to ai)prove m} self such whilst I remain 6.^ L°