%• Here it may not be out of place perhaps to record the fact, that in 1729, Noe WiUey, of London, gave a deed to his three sons, merchants in Ncvv-Yorl^ of a certain lot fronting on what is now Chatham, Oliver, Henry and Catherine Sts. to be used as a Jewish burial ground, and in the year following a trust was created providing " that the said land shall forever remain as a burial place for the Jewish Nation, and to no other use whatever." On its ceasing to be used for that purpose a quit claim deed of it was executed to the Jewish Congregation, Shearith Israel, by one Isaac Gomez Jr. The Tradesmens' Banking house is erected on part of the property. There was a suit at law last year before the Superior Court (old Branch) of the City of N. Y. in which the history of this property was brought up and investigated. The decision was rendered in thebeginning of July. Ed.

ADDRESS FHOM GOV. HUNTER'S FRIENDS TO THE BISHOP OF LONDON AGAINST THE REV. MR. VESEY, Circ. 1714.

My Lord

If we are the last of your L'^ ships Diocese who come to congratulate your L^ ships promotion to the See of London, yet we are as sincere in our Joy on that occasion as those much happier people who enjoy your L^ships nearer influence, for it is with very good reason we hope, that we of this Province are not destined very long to be the only part of the Xtian world that is insensible of the great sway which your L'' ships wisdom holds in all the affairs of Church and State in Great Erittain and its Dominions, and it is from Your L^ships high station in both we draw this happy conclusion in our own favour, that when your L^ship is informed (as we think it our bounden duty you should be) of the true state of the Church in this place, that then we who have been brought up in her faith, & continue steadfast in her Communion, shall receive such encourageoient and protection from your L^'sliip as may enable us to preserve peace and union amongst ourselves, and to maintain our blessed Religion in that state here which our open enemies repine at, and to whose prejudice those who are secretly abetted by them are takeing large steps.