Note. -- The passages in the above address printed in Italics are scored out of the original. The last paragraph is in Governor Hunter's handwriting. It will be well to compare it with Gov: Hunter's Letter to the Sec: of the Soc: for Prop: the Gospel, dated 2oth Feb. 1711-12, which is inserted ante among the "Papers relating to Queens Co." together with other documents illustrative of the State of the Church about that lime. Ed.
DESECRATION OF TRINITY CHURCH.
At a Meeting of y^ Councill in New York ye ll^h day of ilebruary 1713. In ye absence of his Excelled Present Coll DePevster M'" Barberie Capt Walter M"" Phillips
Mr Van Dam Upon Information that Trinity Church in this City was on Tuesday night last broke Open and diverse things belonging to y*^ said Churcli taken away & Spoiled and y^ Board being Informed that one William Dobbs Sexton of y® said Churcli cold give some account thereof
Ordered y^ said Dobbs be sent for who being Called in & Examined saith as followeth : --
That yesterday morneing being y« Tenth of ffebruary Instant, tlie suti being about halfe an hour high he sent his Boy as usual every morning to y<= Church to see if all was well, who Imediately Returned & told him y^ Church was broke open, Whereupon he went to y*-' Churcli, and in y® Church Yard jr y^ Nrvrth corner of }^ Church found a peise of y« Surpliss l>i'i)ig, ivM seveiall peices more thereof near y« Steeple In one of wiiich pei'.-essome persons had Eased themselves, And looking tartlier found two Common Prayer Books and two Psalm Bouks lyeing io ye Church