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my humble Boon, be pleased to appoint me a kind of Agent or Overseer to take Care of thisPlace by a Certificate, or in any other manner which you shall deem better—I trust you will pardon,Worthy Sir, this Sollicitation—The Admission with which you have honoured me to your Favour& Friendship, leaves no Room to doubt but you will kindly indulge me the Freedom of thisAddress, & always allow me the satisfaction of declaring myself.
Your most obedient, obliged and Affectionate humble servant
The Hon ble Sir William Johnson , Baronet. Tho Barton.
R. S. As it might give some Offence to the Proprietary Agents that this Application w r as not madeto them, I would beg to receive the Favoul' I ask, as if from yourself ., uiio thought it necessarythat this Plantation should be put under the Care and Protection of some Person who lived near it■—May I hope for an Answer as soon as your Avocations will allow you to hear me.—Vive diusalvus & sospes!
This will be delivered to you by M r Clench, a Man of Property who resided many years inReputation in this County, but now moves with his Family to the Mohawk River .
Endorsed “supposed in May 1768.”
MR. J. W. BROWN TO SIR WM. JOHNSON .
Schonactady, 5 th of August 1768.
Horn 1 Sir Our Congregation begs to know wether there is any reason to Expect M r Murray 1 soonhere, if not if your Honour approves of it, we would give him an Invitation to come here, thatif this place is agreeable to him and he to us. we will then Subscribe yearly as much as lies in ourpower for him, tho’ I really think it will not exceed £40 this Currency but however if M r Murraycomes and you think him a person that [is] likely to promote Religion among us, we make nodoubt but you will Sir : by recommending another Mission, to be added to this, or by some othermeans, make the terms agreeable to him we are now the more Anxiously Solicitious on this Head,as the Presbyterians are busee to get M r Bay 2 among them I shall not make any appology fortroubling your Honour with this Letter as it would betray a diffidence in your friendship for ourChurch which we have had too many Proofs, to admit a doubt of
I am with the utmost Respect
Sir. your Honour most Obedient Hum bIe Servant
To the Honorable Sir William Johnson Barb J W: Brown.
1 Revd Alexander Murray, Episcopal minister of Reading Pa. from 1763,4 to the breaking out of the Revolution, whena U the Episcopal Churches in Pennsylvania were closed. He withdrew to England, in 1778. Ed.
2 Rev. Andrew Bay was a native of Ireland, and emigrated to Maryland where he married a Miss Hall. He belongedor iginally to the Newcastle Presbytery. He succeeded Mr. Hanna as Presbyterian Minister in Albany which charge hefilled for the space of five years, or until about the date of the above letter. He next moved to Newtown, L. I. His namefirst appears as a member of the N. York Presbytery in 1774 by which body he was dismissed June 20th 1775. In the records°f the Synod of New York and Philadelphia , in May 1776, is the following minute :—
‘‘ The Synod renewed the consideration of Mr. Bay’s appeal, and after mature deliberation, confirmed that part of thePresbytery’s judgment which dissolves the union between Mr. Bay and his congregation; and with respect to the latter part°f said judgment, the Synod are of opinion, that it would have been proper to have recommended to the parties, to leave thesettlement of all matters respecting the glebe and its appurtenances, to arbitrators mutually chosen ; and they further advisethat if any disagreement should hereafter arise between Mr. Bay and the congregation of Newtown , respecting said glebe andAppurtenances, that they decide them in the same way.” ( Prime’s Hist, of L. I. 304.) After quiting Newtown, Mr B. issupposed to have proceeded to Charleston, S. C. where his son, Elisha Hall Bay, was subsequently Judge. All his descend-Ants reside in the South, except a daughter who married a British officer and settled in Nova Scotia . The Rev. Mr. BayWas Grand uncle of Dr. Bay, of Albany, Ed.
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