As I have in my last, and former Letters so fully shewn the Importance of this Mission in many essential points It is unnecessary to observe that it must suffer great disadvantage should it continue long unsupplied Ihave therefore no doubt of the Society's care & attention to promote true Religion in this Infant Settlement by endeavouring to procure some fitting person to undertake that Charge, as soon as possible as I know of no Candidate that offers at present in this Country, tho' I trust such may be found in England amongst Some of those Gents' who have but small incomes with large families for whom they can make a better provision in America than at home, At the same time T shall in Conjunetion with the Clergy of this Province make the most diligent enquiry in order to have it supplied here if possible as a Congregation so large & promising & that must in a little time influence a large extent of Country deserves much attention; and J think it very necessary to make a private observa- . tion that this part of the Country is not Circumstanced like the Old Settlements on the Sea Coasts, where the Missionarys are in fact usefull only to a select few, where all their Neighbours, are bigotedly attached to their respective Sects, & seldom come

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within the Pale of the Church, but here the Inhabitants are for the most part very ignorant, & have been chiefly invited by the fertility of the Soil, & the advantage of fine Communicats for transporting their produce. and as they were of the poorer & lower Class of Adventurers from difft Countries they have in general very little acquaintance with any Religion, & a Minister can not be accus'd of interfering amst them so that the first Church which goes on Successfully & without interruption must attach them all, & not only them but all those who are in the same predicament, who are really the bulk of the people in a Country that settles amazingly fast all of whom may in time become Zealously attached to our Constitution in Church & State if duly attended to in their Infaney..