PETER's CHURCH, ALBANY.

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.

VIII. Rev. Frederic Beasley, of Philadelphia, was elected rector in July, (though others say 1st Sept.,) 1803. Possibly he took up his permanent residence at the rectory at the latter date. He served six years, having resigned in August 1809, and left the city the following month. He became afterwards provost of the University of Penn.

IX. Rev. Timothy Clowes, son of Joseph C, of Hempstead, where he was born March 18, 1787, graduated at Columbia Coll. in 1808. Having received Deacon's orders he preached in Jersey City and Jamaica in 1809, on the 19th of Nov. of which year he preached for the first time at St. Peters. He began his ministerial duties in this church on 23d April, 1810 ; but it was not until the 31st Dec. of that year that he was regularly called, or inducted as rector. Having obtained the pre-requisite order of presbyter on 26th Nov., 1813, he was " instituted" on 3d Feb. 1814. His connexion with this church terminated in the latter part of 1817, when he returned to his native town and taught a classical seminary there for three years with great success. In 1821, he became principal of Erasmus Hall, Flatbush ; in 1823, was chosen president of Washington CoU., Md., and rector of the church in Chestertown and St. Pauls, Kent Co.