* * * * The Clergy here have had a Sort of convocation at the instance and charge of his Excellency, Colonel Nicholson, Governor of Virginia, we were but seven in all, and a week together w^e Sat considering of ways and means to propogate the Gospel, and to that end we have drawn up a Scheme of the present State of the Church in these provinces, which you shall see when I have time to ti-anscribe it, and I

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shall desire you to Send it afterwards to my good brother Kemble. We have great need of a bishop here to visit all the Churches, to ordain some, to confirm others, and bless all. * * * *

HEY. GEO. KEITH TO THE SOCIETY FOR PROP: THE GOSPEL.

* * * * Last Sunday I preached here at New York in the forenoon before his Excellency, Lord Cornbury, at the desire of M"- Vesey, minister of the Church of England here. My Lord Cornbury invited us to dine with him at Fort Henry, as accordingly we did after Sermon, and at Several other times at his desire we dined with him. There is a brave congregation ol people belonging to the Church here, as well as a very fine fabric of a church, and the Rev. M^" Vesey very much esteemed and loved both for his ministry and good life, and the like I can say of all the other ministers of the Church, where I have travelled as at Boston, at Rhode Island, and Philadelpliia.