I remained, after that, two years in that province expecting a favorable season for the reestablishment of affairs, but after waiting two years, seeing no appearance, and being invited to remove to this Province of New York by Colonel Heathcote who always evinces an affection lor the public good and distinguishes liimself by a special application for the advancement of rehgion and good order, by the Establishment of Churches and Schools, the fittest means to strengthen and encourage the People, I complied with his request and ^lat of the Company of New Rochelle in this province, where I passed five years on a small allowance promised me by New Rochelle of one hundred pieces and lodging, with that of one hundred and five pieces which the Corporation continued to me until the arrival of milord belaraont who, after indicating his willingness to take charge of me and our Canton ordered me Thirty pieces in the Council of York, and did me the favor to promise me that at his journey to Boston he would procure me the continuation of that stipend tliat I had in times past. But having learned at Boston, through M'" Nanfan, Ins Lieutenant, tliat I annexed my signature to an ecclesiastical certificate which the Churches and Pastors of this Province had given to Sieui* Delius, Minister of Albany, who had not tlie good fortune to please his late Lordship, his defunct Excellency cut off lus thirty pieces Avhich he had ordered me in his Council at York, deprived me of the Boston pension of 25 pieces, writing to London to liave that deduction approved, and left me, during three years last past in an extreme destitution of tlie means of subsistence.