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business and is well spoken of as being diligent in it: the 

 third is at New Rochelle, where both French and English are 

 taught. The two last have no other encouragement than 

 what the parents of the children taught, do give." 



Mr. Forster remained as schoolmaster until 1743. That 

 he became a person of considerable consequence is shown by the 

 fact that in 1733 he was put up by the strong De Lancey 

 party as the opponent of Judge Lewis Morris in the election of 

 that year for representative in the Assembly. 



In 1744, Mr. Basil Bartow was appointed schoolmaster at the 

 request of the church authorities. The King's commissary 

 reported as follows: 



"He is the son of the Rev. John Bartow, late the Society's 

 worthy missionary there. He is a person of good temper, 

 sober, and pious, and well affected to the present govern- 

 ment; conformable to the doctrine and discipline of the 

 Church, and exceedingly well qualified for the instruction of 

 children." 



Mr. Bartow remained as schoolmaster for nearly twenty 

 years, or until 1762, when we learn from the report of Rector 

 Milner: "that the school is still vacant, and deprived of 

 a teacher, but I petition the Society to continue their bounty 

 to some worthy person who shall be chosen schoolmaster; as 

 the school is a nursery for the Church and of great service in 

 these parts." 



In 1763, he writes again: 



"I express my own and my people's sense of the favour 

 done us, in giving us leave to choose a schoolmaster for 

 this place, tho' we have not yet been able to find a person 

 properly qualified for the office." In 1764, he writes: "I 



