Rt. Rev. Wm. Quarter 2j 



On the 2Qth day of October, in the year 1826, 

 the Rt. Rev. Dr. Dubois was consecrated Bishop of 

 New- York. At his departure from the institution 

 which he had founded, he took with him the exeat 

 and other papers committed to his keeping by Mr. 

 Quarter when he was received into the Seminary. 

 It was the intention of Bishop Dubois to call him to 

 his own diocese as soon as the termination of his 

 course of theological studies had been reached. He 

 did call him; and though the then Archbishop of 

 Baltimore exerted himself to detain him, and though 

 the faculty of the College made him splendid offers 

 in order to prevent his departure, and to secure the 

 continuance of his services to that institution, he 

 felt himself bound by the ties of a stronger gratitude 

 to his first friend, and he cheerfully resigned the 

 honours that awaited his college-life for the labours 

 and privations of a mission under his benefactor. 



On the 14th of September, iSiq, he left the 

 lovely retirement of his mountain-home, where he 

 had spent so many happy days, for the noise and 

 bustle of the great city of New- York, which was to 

 be the theatre qf his ministerial labours. "He 

 reached New- York on Wednesday evening, the i6th 

 of the same month, and on Thursday morning, 

 the 1 7th, he received at the hands of Bishop Dubois 

 the Clerical Tonsure, Minor Orders, and Sub- 

 deaconship; on Friday morning, the i8th. Deacon- 

 ship ; and on Saturday morning he was raised to the 

 dignity of the Priesthood." Being under 23 years of 



