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.. The Independ's & other Dissenters are so sensible of this that repeated applicat» hag been made for the use of the Ch: often by Itinerant preachers whenever the Minister was absent for that purpose I leave you to Judge from the Sly Artifices as well as publie attacks practised by them against the Ch;.of England in America;--

As I do not recollect any material occurrence since my last, I have only to offer my best Regards to the Society, & most Cordial Wishes, for the prosperity of their pious & Laudable endeavors assuring you that I am with much Esteem Sir &ca.

The Reyé Dt Hind:?

1 Rey. Ricwarp Hrnp, D. D., son of Dr. John Hind, rector of Fendon, Sus. sex, was born at Boddington in Northamptonshire, in 1715; entered Oxford about 1780, and obtained his degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1749; became rector of Shering, Essex 1754, and of St. Anne, Westminster, 1766, both of which he vacated in 1778 for the Vicarages of Rochdale, Lancashire, and Skipton, York. shire. on account of a dispute which he had with his Curate in St.