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CHAPTER II. 



FROM HIS DEPARTURE FOR AMERICA UNTIL HIS APPOINTMENT AS 

 PASTOR OF ST. MARY's CHURCH IN NEW-YORK, 1 822 — I 83 3 



On the loth day of April, 1822, in the sixteenth 

 year of his age, William Quarter left his native land 

 for North America. It is a singular coincidence, 

 that, on the very same day of the same month, 

 twenty-six years later, the period of his earthly exile 

 terminated. 



The vessel in which he sailed landed at Quebec. 

 He presented himself to the Bishop of that city, 

 and asked to be received as an ecclesiastical student: 

 but his youth was urged as an objection, and this 

 objection he could not remove. He applied next to 

 the Bishop of Montreal, where the same objection as 

 to his youth was urged against him. He then went 

 to Mt. St. Mary's College, Emmetsburg, Md., 

 where he applied to Rev. Mr. Dubois, the President 

 of the College, afterwards the Bishop of New- York. 

 Here the reason that had caused his rejection in 

 Canada, operated in his favour, and with Rev. Mr. 

 Dubois his youth was his first and best recom- 

 mendation. That good clergyman, an exile himself, 

 received young Quarter even as a father would a son ; 

 and ever afterwards through life there existed 

 between them the reciprocal tenderness and regard 

 of a father for a son and of a son for a father. 



Rev. Mr. Dubois examined his young pupil in 

 the studies which he had been pursuing, and finding 



