I fear many of the Missionaries are distressed for want of an opportunity to draw for their salaries, and I apprehend they have not yet received any benefit from the generous collection that was made for them in England. Dr. Chandler some time since sent me a list of those Missionaries in New Jersey, New York and Connecticut, that were to receive those benefactions, and the sum allotted to each ; desiring that I should give them notice and inform them how to draw for the money. But I have not yet been able to give intelligence of this to any except Messrs Seabury, ' Bloomer and

1 Samuel Seabury, D.D., first bishop of Conn, was born in New London in 1728, and graduated at Yale in 1751. At the request of his father (originally a congregational minister, but afterwards rector of Hempstead, L. I,,) he was appointed as early as 1748 his assistant and catechist to the mission at a salary of ten pounds a year. In 1753, he was reconimemled by the Rev. Mr. Wetmore, of Rye, for the vacant church of New Brunswick, N. J., and with tlie sanction of the Soc. for Prop, the Gosp. proceeded to England where he received orders, (a) He entered on the duties of his mission in Rlay 1754, and in 1757 was sent to Jamaica L. 1. Some of his letters, whilst siationed at this place, will be found in the present Vol. of the Doc. Hist, of N. Y. At the close of Dec. 1766, he was instituted, at his own request, rector of St. Peters Church, Westchester, and at the breaking out of the revolutionary war adhered, with the majority of his brethren of the Clergy, to the Royal cause. In April 1775, he signed the protest at White Plains in which he and others declared their " honest abhorrence of all unlawful congresses and committees," and determination " at the hazard of our lives and properties to support the King and constitution." Several pamphlets appeared about in the course of the same year in favour of the government; among others, some written under the character of A Farmer, which gave great offence to the Sons of Liberty, and R party of whigs from Connecticut crossed over to Westchester county and seized the Rev.