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Doctor Chandler has received several Letters from the Bishops & other dignified Clergy, approvingof his appeal; He desires me to present his best Respects to Sir William Johnson . He is nowpublishing a Vindication of the appeal, and is to Send Sir William a Copy.
Please to accept my best Respects, and am with great Regard
Honourable Sir, Your most Obedient Servant
. Albany 12 th April 1769. Harry Munro.
P. S. My best Regards, if you please, to Sir John, Col 1 Johnson, Col' Claus, M 1 '. Grace, & M rDailey, adieu.
*** The Rev. Harry Munro was born in 1729. He was the son of Dr Robert Munro of Dingwall whose father was Alex-ander Munro, Laird of Killichoan, in Rossbire, grandson of Sir Robert Munro 3d baronet, and 24th baron of Fowlis inInverness . His mother was Ann Munro of Feanourd a distant cousin of her husband. Being the second son of the Lairdof Killichoan his father was bred a surgeon and in that capacity joined Lord Loudon’s army in 1745, and died the next yearfrom injuries received in that campaign, leaving two sons, Harry and Alexander Munro . Harry was then a lad of 16, &shortly after his father’s death entered the University of St Andrews. After taking the usual degrees of Bachelor, k Masterof Arts, he studied Divinity in Edinburgh. In 1757 he was admitted to orders in the Kirk of Scotland , & appointed Chaplainto the 77th Regiment of foot commanded by Col. Montgomery ; he accompanied that regiment to America in 1759, andserved with it to the close of the French war. On the return of Peace he resided mostly at Princeton, New Jersey . Achange now came over his theological view's, and he embraced episcopacy. He was accordingly recommended for orders bya Convention of the clergy of that denomination which met at Perth Amboy on 20th Sept 1764, and he sailed for England inthe course of the month of December following. He returned to America the next Spring with an appointment from theSoc : for prop : the Gospel to St John’s Church, Yonkers , of which he was the first Pastor—He was connected two yearswith this church, and was appointed in 1707, Minister ot St. Peter’s Albany , of which church he took charge on the 26March 1768. In 1773, King’s Coll : New York conferred the degree of A.M. on him. In the summer of 1775, he resigned therectorship of St Peter’s on the alleged ground of ill health, and moved to Ilebron in "Washington County where he owned aconsiderable tract of land. Like many other of the clergy of the church, he was considered at the commencement of theRevolution an enemy to the liberties of A merica. He applied personally in August 1776 to the Albany Committee for a Passto go to New Jersey or Pennsylvania , but this was refused ; he obtained permission the following year, to remove toCanada and at the close of the war returned to Scotland, became Rector of a church at Edinburgh , where he died in theyear 1801, aged 71 years. He is buried in the West Church yard of St Cuthberts church of that city.
The Revd. Mr. Munro was married three times. His first wife was the widow of an officer of his own regiment. She diedin child bed within a year after their marriage, leaving one child named Elizabeth, afterwards Mrs. Fisher, who died lately inMontreal. In 1762, the revd Mr. M. married Miss Stockton of Princeton N. J. grand aunt, it is supposed, of Cora. Stockton,U. S, Senate . This lady died in the autumn of 1764, leaving an infant who survived its mother but a few weeks. On hisremoval to Yonkers in 1765, he married his third wife Eve, eldest daughter of Ch. Just. Jay. This lady died in 1810,leaving one son, Peter Jay Munro, a distinguished member of the bar, and one of the framers of the Constitution of this Stateof 1822. Peter J. M. died 22. Sept 1833, aged 66 years. Letter of E. F. He Lancey, Esq.
Sir Your favour of the 14th Instant is now before me. I am very sorry the Common PrayerBooks could not have-been sent sooner. The Fault was not mine, but the Bookbinders, out of whoseHands I could not get them before the Middle of March, and then only 283, which I sent you thefirst Instant, Avith all the other Articles you wrote for that could be obtained in this City. ThePrayer Books that are to be bound in Morroco , must be delayed for some Time, as I must send toBoston for the Leather ; and when compleated shall be sent with the account of the whole.
The Laws of last Session were sent you by Post, as soon as finished, but I suppose have beenlost by some Means or other in Albany : I by this Opportunity send you another Set, which I hope