But who is disgusted with me for declining to give Newtown & Flushing to M-^ Treadwell, tho I readily consented & am willing to receive M^ T. or any other person that sliall be agreable to the Society into the Parish in an amicable manner ; but the Expenses of a growing family will not permit me to relinquish any part of the Salary. Nor do I conceive that I have any right to give up any part of the Parish to the entire management of another person, unless it should be divided by

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the same public authority which first established it. Had M' Treadwell made me acquainted with his being in the Parish I should readil)^ & gladly have invited him to preach at all th« three Chiu'ches, & am very sorry he did not give me the opportunity, as it would have prevented all Disputes & a great dea,5 of Talk & noise and ill Blood. I am told that I can have mj remedy at common Law and have been much urged by mj Warmer Friends to make use of it, but I would on no accounv have an affair of this kind litigated but choose to submit it entirely to the Venerable Society, knowing that while I discharge my Duty to them, they wiU protect me in the quiet & peaceable enjoyment of my mission, which I am sorry to acquaint them is a good deal disturbed & unsettled by this behaviour of M"*" Tread well's.