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To yc bell ringer. ------- 



To ye collecting of, 



To ye belfry roof of Westchester church, 



To ye sacrament and collection, « ... 



At this period of Mr. Bartow's labors, the Society appear to have 

 withdrawn their annual salary of ^50 • whereupon, we find the clergy 

 of the Province addressing the Secretary in his behalf: — 



DIVERS MINISTERS OF NEW YORK TO THE SECRETARY. 



Sir: — "We are informed that the Honorable Society have withdrawn their 

 allowance from our Reverend brother, Mr. Bartow, at which we are heartily 

 concerned, and think ourselves obliged to recommend him to your favor, as a 

 person truly deserving the continuance of your bounty. He has, in short, be- 

 haved himself soberly and prudently to the satisfaction of all his people, diligent 

 for the good of his Church, and pious and exemplary in his life and conversa- 

 tion : we hope his piety and goodness will merit } r our allowance, especially when 

 you have considered the necessity ; it being impossible to subsist in the discharge 

 of his office, without an established salary from the Corporation. We shall not 

 offer any further trouble at present, only pray you to look upon our worthy 

 brother to be a sincere good man, and therein you shall oblige, Sir, yours, &c, 



Evan Evans, William Vesey, 



New York, 17 April, 1707. Wit UEQrHART, Elias Neau, 



John Thomas, George Murison." 



The next annual report of Mr. Bartow to the Society, shows that he 

 was still laboring with great diligence and success : — 



MR. BARTOW TO THE SECRETARY. 



[Extract.] 



From Westchester, 

 in New York, in America, 

 10th June, 1709. 

 Sn?: — ctj jj ave p a i,j my vistsin the Jerseys, and preached there three Sun- 

 days : 1st, at Topenamus ; 2nd, at Shrewsbury ; 3rd, at Amboy ; and Mr. Sharp 

 preached for me once at Westchester. Mr. Evans was at York one Sunday, in 

 my absence, and designed to go up and preach for me, at Westchester ; but the 

 arrival of the Kinsale from cruising, obliged him to preach on board, so that my 

 parish was two Sundays without any ecclesiastical ministration, which they never 

 tvere, so near together, since I came. In my way home, I had the honour to be 

 in the company of Col. Nicholson, and to receive of him a letter from his Grace 

 the Archbishop of Canterbury ; and the same had all the other missionaries, of 

 which I shall always retain a grateful sense, as well for the subject matter there- 

 in contained as for his Grace's great condescension in casting so favorable an eye 

 upon us. I have likewise to tell you that I have this day received yours, dated 



a Westchester Vestry Book. 



