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. Peter's Albany, of which church he took charge on the 26 March 1768. In 1778, King's Coll ; New York conferred the degree of A.M. on him. In the summer of 1775, he resigned the rectorship of St Peter's on the alleged ground of ill health, and moved to Hebron in Washington County where he owned a considerable tract of
land. Like many other of the clergy of the church, he was considered at the commencement of the Revolution anenemy-to the liberties of America. Iie applied personally in Augnst 1776 to the Albany Committee for a Pass to go to New Jersey or Pennsylvania, but this was refused ; he obtained perinission, the following year, to remove to Canada and at the close of 'the war returned to Scotland, became Rector of a church at Edinburgh. where he died in the year 1801, aged 71 years. He is buried in the West Church yard of St Cuthberts church of that city.
'The Revd. Mr. Munro was married three times. His first wife was the widow of an ofiicer of his own regiment. She died in child bed within a year after their marriage, leaving one child named Hlizabeth, afterwards Mrs. Fisher, who died lately in Montreal. In 1762, the revd Mr. M, married Miss Stockton of Princeton N.