With respect to the state of my own ^lission things are considerably mended especially at Flushing which has ever been the seat of Quakerism & infidelity -- Many young people of both sexes have steadily attended divine Service the past Summer whose Parents are eitlicr Quakers or Deists and behaved with great decency -- They are now finisliing the Church which before was only enclosed so as to keep out the weather & I hope in my next letter to acquaint the Society of its being completed.

At Newtown also they are repairing the Church & havt rebuilt the Steeple from the ground at a considerable expence

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and I had the pleasure the last time I administered the Communion at the Parish Church to "find three added to the number of the Communicants.

I must beg leave to repeat my request to the honored Society for a number of Common Prayer Books wliich I am lately enc£>m'a§e(l to think may be distributed to advantage.

I am &<^ &«

Sajmuex Seabury.

* THE SAME TO THE SAME.

Jamaica March 2C, 1761.

Rev^ Sir

In my last I informed you that the people at Flushing were finishing their Church. The severe cold weather the past Winter obhge4 them to suspend the work some months, but they have now resumed it & are likely to complete it in a short time, together with a handsome Steeple whicli was begun last Autumn. The principal expense of this work is defrayed by M"" John Aspinwall & M»' Tho^ Grennall two Gentlemen Avho have lately retired thither from New York.