His mother was Ann Munro of Peaceen a distant cousin of her husband. Being the second son of the Laird of Killichoan his father was bred a surgeon and in that capacity joined Lord Loudon's army in 1745, and died the next year from injuries received in that campaign, leaving two sons, Harry and Alexander Munro. Harry was then a lad of 16, & shortly after his father' s death entered the University of St Andrews. After taking the usual degrees of

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HUGH GAINE TO SIR WM. JOHNSON.

Sir : Your favour of the 14th Instant 1s now before me. I am very sorry the Common Prayer Books could not have been sent sooner. The Fault was not mine, but the Bookbinders, out of whose Hands I could not get them before the Middle of March, and then only 283, which I sent you the first Instant, with all the other Articles you wrote for that could be obtained in this

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Bachelor, & Master of Arts, he studied Divinity in Edinburgh. In 1757 he was admitted to orders in the Kirk of Scotland, & appointed Chaplain to the 77th Regiment of foot commanded by Col. Montgomery ; he accompanied that regiment 'to America in 1759, and served with it to the close of the French war.

On the return of Peace he resided mostly at Princeton, New Jersey. A change uow came over his theological views, and he embraced episcopacy. He was accordingly recommended for orders by a Convention of the clergy of that denomination which met at Perth Amboy on 20th Sept 1764, and he sailed for England in the course of the month of December following. He returned to America the next Spring with an appointment from the Soc: for prop: the Gospel to St John's Church, Yonkers, of which he was the first Pastor--He was connected two years with this church, and. was appointed in 1767, Minister of St.