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4th. We do appoint Mr. Gabriel D. Veber to keep the key of said church ; and it 

 is our desire that he open the church to no other preachers but such as have been 

 agreed upon. 



5th. That there be no private meetings for Divine service in said church, but that 

 the doors be open for persons of every denomination who behave themselves with 

 decency and good order, and desire to hear our preaching. 



6lh. That when there be an appointment by a minister of our clergy, there be no 

 other on that day but such as he shall please to make. 



7th. Ordered that these resolutions be published in said church immediately after 

 Divine service ; that they may be known to the people : and that they be entered in 

 the Greenwich Church-book. 



Robert Blackwell, one of the Managers, and 



Clerk to the said meeting. 



Present — Timothy Clark, Isaac Inskeep, Thomas Thomson, Samuel Tonkin, Jon- 

 athan Chew, Gabriel D. Veber, Bodo Otto, Jr. 



Greenwich, July 31, 1774. 



This day the above resolves were published, according to the order of the 



Managers, by me. 



• Robert Blackwell. 



Greenwich, Sept. 13, 1774. 

 At an appointed meeting of the Managers of Greenwich Church, with Mr. Rankins, 

 Superintendent of the Methodists in these parts, and several of the heads of them, 

 living in Greenwich, it was agreed that the Regulations made by the Managers on 

 June 30, 1774, shall be observed by each party. 



Robert Blackwell. 



In 1775 Mr. Blackwell writes to the English society in whose em- 

 ployment he was, that the congregation at each of his churches is 

 somewhat increased, though he lost one of his best families by emigra- 

 tion. At Easter his communicants at Waterford were six, and at 

 Greenwich twenty-five. 



In 1776 he writes of the great difficulty he has in settling a mission 

 in the general disturbance, and gives no very promising account of his 

 congregation. 



An abstract of the society's report for the next year (1777) says of 

 the Gloucester mission, that "all is in confusion." 



It is not surprising to find that a mission whose chief seat was 

 Gloticester, in New Jersey, should be all in confusion a. d. 1777, that 

 year memorable there and in all the country round about as the year of 

 the assault by Count Donop on Fort Mercer, at Red Bank, and of the 

 terrific siege of Fort Mifflin; of the marching and countermarching 

 under the Earl of Cornwallis, and General Varnum, and Sir Henry 

 Clinton, and General Maxwell, of hostile armies; and of constant naval 

 engagements in the Delaware, one of the severest having been just 

 below Gloucester, October 23, 1777, when the "Augusta" and the 



