Munro, in a statement before us, classes thus : -- Attendants, 156 ; Communicants, 44, of which 30 were gained by him or joined the cliurch since his appointment, and he " had all the rest" (he says) " to reconcile or bring back, his predecessor having had but three communicants, wdien he last administered." Baptised since his appointment in Albany, 345 ; Communicants lost by death, removals, &c. 14 ; desertions 4=18. " Three of tliese have left the church because tliey w^ere not permitted to wrest tlie government out of the vestry's hands; the other^ because he could not relish Bishop Tillotson's, Sherlock's & Atterbury's sermons, and because M^ Munro did not preach spiritual Sermons."

The church w^as vacant during the war of the Revolution, though it is stated that service was performed in 1776.2

VIL Rev. Thomas Ellison, A. M. of Cambridge, Eng., was appointed rector on the 1st May, 1787, and one of the Regents^ of t]ie University, Feb. 28, 1797. He was in private life, a gentleman (fa sociable disposition, and remarkable w it, whose society

1. 2 Mass. Hist. Soc. CoU. i, 148. 2 N. J. Hist. Soc. Proc. ii, HI.

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was much courted, for it is said of him, that he was "as much above a mean action as an angel is above a calumniator." The old churcli, in the centre of State-street, was demolished, and the present edifice erected in his rectorate. Anno 1802, on the 26 of April, of which year, Mr. Ellison died. Bishop Chase, ot Ohio, studied divinity under this clergyman. A vacancy, of more than a year, now occurred.