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said Fulham, admitted into the Holy Order of Deacons, according to 

 the manner and form prescribed and used by the Church of England." 



On the same day the newly ordained deacon, by a written document, 

 declared that he would "conform to the Liturgy of the Church of Eng- 

 land, as it is now by law established." He then received the Bishop 

 of London's license and authority to perform the office of "a minister 

 in Gloucester county or elsewhere within the Province of New Jersey in 

 North America." On the 14th follov.'ing he was ordained a Priest. 



The reports of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in For- 

 eign Parts now came to our aid. An abstract of the report for the year 

 1 774 says: 



Mr. Robert Blackwell, missionary at Gloucester and Walerford, acquaints the society 

 that he performs duty not only at Gloucester and Waterford (which latter goes by the 

 n\me of Cole's Church) but also at Greenwich, about eighteen miles from Waterford, 

 where there is a 7iew church; not built purposely for the Church of England (the people 

 at that time having no hopes of a missionary), but where the ministers thereof are to 

 have the preference, and which Mr. Blackwell hopes will very shortly be an established 

 church.* 



The families belonging to each of these churches were about forty in 

 number, many of whom, Mr. Blackwell notes, "were very ignorant, 

 particularly in respect to the sacraments as living in the midst of 

 Quakers, and destitute of the means of instruction. Appearances were, 

 however, now more favorable, and Mr. Blackwell hopes, by God's 

 blessing, to be an instrument of great good." 



The grounds for the hope expressed by Mr. Blackwell that this new 



* The " new church," to which Mr. Blackwell refers, was St. Peter's Church, 

 Berkeley, founded and endowed A. D. 1770, by Thomas Clark. It was not incorpo- 

 rated until April 28, 1835, when it received the charter-title of " The Rector, Church 

 Wardens and Vestrymen of St. Peter's Church in Berkeley." We find it in former 

 days sometimes called "the church at Sand-town;" sometimes the church at Green- 

 wich ; and of later days " the church at Clarksborough." In the course of generations 

 " the new church " of Dr. Blackwell's day became a very old one. It was resolved to 

 build a new edifice; and the village of Clarksborough, which had grown up a little to 

 the east of the church, though on ground originally of Thomas Clark, the founder of the 

 edifice, being the residence of most of the worshippers, the new edifice was built there; 

 a half of a mile, perhaps, west of the old situation, on the same street and same side 

 of it with the old one, and directly opposite to the parsonage. On Monday morning, 

 December 7, 1846, the venerable structure of Dr. Blackwell's day was reverently torn 

 down, and on the 17th of the same month the new one was consecrated by Bishop 

 Doane, under the charter name of " St. Peter's Church, Berkeley," in Clarksborough. 

 It is agreeable to know that under the faithful and judicious pastoral care of the Rev. 

 Jesse Y. Burk it is at this time one of the best ordered, flourishing and useful 

 parishes in the State of New Jersey. 



