Now if ye Society wow'd authorize me, I wou'd serve him w'h an Ejectment, & if J lost ye suit, it show'd "be at my cost--if I recover'd it, they shou'd pay me & let me have ye Land for attending those poor Indians, who wow'd rejoice under my Ministry. I wish you wou'd condescend to weigh this affair. Wishing you all Happiness in Time & Eternity, I presume to subscribe myself,

ees: Yr Honor's '

New London March most obedient, hum!¢ Seryt 12th 1773 ' Mart Graves? I wish y¢ Trustees in England had a faithful narrative of Dt Wheeler's &c.

1 Rev. Marrnew Graves a native of England, took charge of the Episcopal church at New London, as Missionary from the Soc: for Prop: the Gospel, in the year 1745. He continued to officiate in that parish until 1778, when he was requested to forego the usual prayer for the King. This he refused to do, and in consequence he was driven from his church one Sunday after reading this obnoxious part of the Liturgy. So suddenl y was the attack, that he had not time to divest himself of his surplice, in which he fled tothe house of a parishioner, who though awarm Whig, protected him from violence, Notwithstanding public service was thus suspended, Mr. Graves remained in New London until the following years, subjected to many straits, '' during which for the support of his family, he has ~ been obliged to sell almost all his property and to take up money on very disadvantageous terms." He withdrew to New York in which city he died unmarried, in 1780. In person he was ungainly; of low stature , rather corpulent, with particularly short legs. His brother John » Was minister of the Episcopal church . at Providence R, I. where he diedin Noy. 1785.