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

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.

The State of the Parish is in other respects much the same. A most unaccountable backwardness to receive the Holy Communion prevails, & I almost despair of getting the better of it, seeing I have laboured mucli both publicly & privately to bring them to a sense of their duty in this respect but with little

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Jamaica March 26 1764

Reverend Sir

My last letter to the Honb^e Society bore date Oct"" 4. 1763 wherein I acknowledged receipt of the Prayer books & pious tracts they were pleased to order for this Mission, most of which I have now carefully dispersed in such manner as I thought would best promote the pious end proposed by them.

From an acquaintance of more than Six years with tlie people of this Parish, I find tliat their backwardness to attend the Public Worship & and to comply with the Christiim Sacraments, is not entirely the consequence of want of thouglit and carelessness which I at first apprehended to be tlie case, but am