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having been fulfilled, either as respected his salary or the fitting up of 

 his residence; he applied to the governor and council for redress. A 

 summons to the town authorities to appear and answer, was sufficient ; 

 they satisfied Mr. Jones, and on April 27th, 1686, he gave them receipts 

 in full. 



Of his services in Newtown little is known beyond what has been re- 

 lated. His administration of baptism and the marriage vow is incident- 

 ally mentioned. He was a ready speaker, and of a conciliatory disposi- 

 tion; but different accounts are given of his character and qualifications. 

 Dr. Calomy, in speaking of him while settled in Wales, intimates that 

 he wanted capacity, but was honest. But Dr. Mather in his Magnalia, 

 sets him in a positively bad light ; yet I attach but little importance to 

 his statements about Mr. Jones, because they are not only improbable 

 and puerile, but are given at second-hand, and not on the personal knowl- 

 edge of the doctor — whose credulity was equal to his learning. The 

 history of Mr. Jones, so far as known, affords nothing positive against 

 him; and it may be stated in his favor, that he enjoyed the acquaintance 

 and confidence of Dr. Thomas Lloyd, of Pensylvania, and his brother 

 Charles Lloyd, Esq., of Dolobran, Wales, who were his college mates at 

 Oxford."* 



The Rev. Morgan Jones was succeeded by Mr. Samuel Goding who 

 received instructions to read in the Bible and other good sermon books, 

 and so to carry on the Sabbath exercises in East Chester. On the 30th of 

 November, 1692, the inhabitants of East Chester agreed to pay the fol- 

 lowing sums towards the support of Mr. Samuel Goding : 



Henry Fowler offers one bushel of good winter wheat. 



John Tompkins 3 



John Drake 4 



John Clark 2 



John Pinckney 5 pecks of Indian corn. 



Joseph Drake 4 



William Gray 2 



Thomas Pinckney 3 



John Shute 3 



Isaac Taylor 2 



Ben. Taylor 2 



Thomas Shute 4 6. 



Upon the 9th of May, 1693, it was resolved that a meeting-house 

 should be built according to the dimensions agreed upon. " On the 

 • 1 6th inst. it was agreed that the whole charge of building the said house 

 shall be paid according unto the estates of every particular person's list 

 taken." At the same time " Captain William Haiden, John Drake, 

 John Pinckney, Richard Shute and Henry Fowler, Senior, were chosen 

 overseers to superintend the building of the meeting-house." 



By an act of Provincial Assembly passed 21st September, 1693, (con- 

 firmed nth of May, 1697), East Chester became one of the four pre- 

 cints 6 of West Chester Parish. 



a Hiker's Annals of Newtown, L. I., p. 114. 



& Acts of Assembly from 1691 to 1725. As early as 1669 we find the following order in the 

 Town Rec, " The bounds of our parish to be preambulated according to law," Boot L p. 23. 



