Our Congregation begs to know wether there is any reason to Expect M* Murray" soon here. if not if your Honour approves of it, we would give him an Invitation to come here, that if this place is agreeable to him and he to us. we will then Subscribe yearly as much as lies in our power for him, tho' IJ really think it will not exceed £40 this Currency but however if Mt Murray comes and you think him a person that [is] likely to promote Religion among us, we make no doubt but you will Sir: by recommending another Mission, to be added to this, or by some other means, make the terms agreeable to him we are now the more Anxiously Solicitious on this Head, as the Presbyterians are busee to get Mt Bay? among them I shall not make any appology for troubling your Honour with this Letter as it would betray a diffidence in your friendship for our Church which we have had too many Proofs. to admit a doubt of

I am with the utmost Respect Sir. your Honour most Obedient Humble Servant J W : Brown

To the Honorable Sir William Johnson Bart

1 Reyd AtexaNpER Murray, Episcopal minister of Reading Pa. from 1763,4

to the breaking out of the Revolution, when all the Episcopal Churches in Pennsylvania' were closed. .He withdrew to England, in1778. Ep.

2 Rev. AnprEw Bay was a native of Ireland, and emigrated to Maryland where he married a Miss Hall. He belonged originally to the Newcastle Presbytery. He succeeded Mr. Hanna as Presbyterian Minister in Albany which charge he filled for the space of five years, or until about the date of the above letter. He next moved to Newtown, L.I. His name first appears as a member of the N.