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Maps, plates, charts, etc., may be filmed at different reduction ratios. Those too large to be entirely included in one exposure ara filmed beginning in the upper left hand corner, left to right and top to bottom, as many frames as required. The following diagrams illustrate tha method: Les cartes, planches, tableaux, etc., peuvent Atre flimAs A des taux de rAduction d^ffArents. Lorsque le document est trop grand pour Atre reproduit en un seul clichA. il est filmA A partir dr S'angle supArieur gauche, de gauche A droite, et de haut en bas, en pFenani le nombre d'images nAcessaire. Las diagrammes suivants iilustrant la mAthode. ata ilure, : IX 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 ■■4 ■n ff^i-- 1709 Samukl Beckwitfi Caleb huntington Isaac Bioalow John Nkwcomb IIezijciaii Cogswell Elkanah Mokton Juu' as Com" For the chh & congregation To The Rev.d M: Andrkw Ki.liot In Boston in Newenglaiul. Halifax January 18«!' 1770. RevV SiVs We were yesterday favor'd with the receipt of your Letter of the 12".' December, and agreeable to youi request, shall now furnish you with the best Accounts W3 are able to collect, of the Cir- cumstances, of the Dissenting Clergy, and their Congregations, within this Province. We have in all Eight dissenting Clergymen, settled here. Six of whom are Congregationalists, Viz' The Rev" M' Wood Cheever, Sec- comb, Moor, Phelps & Gannet, and two are Presbyterian Viz' M' Murdoch, & Mf Lyon. The Rev'! M' VVood at Barrington, came from New Engl'! We can't learn that he has any Establish'd Salary, but that his people (yet in low Circumstances) are able to afford him but a scanty support. The Rev*! M' Cheever ^ at Liverpool is also from N'Engl'! He was promis'd a salary of about £80, f annum, but his people are not able to make good their Contract, and having a very numerous Family, finds it 1 The Rev. Israel Cheever was born at Ccnconl, Sept. 27, 1723, and graduated at Harvard College in the Class of 1749. He was settled for many years at Liverpool, Nova Scotia, where he died in June, 1812. tmm extremely ditHcult to support tliein, and 'n feiirfiill whether he shall not be obliged to remove to some other Province for a SubaiHtence. The Rev'! M' Seccomb ' at Chester is also from N'Enfjl'' He has never had any Establish'd Salary, but receives about i!20, >' annum from his Parish, which contains a few Industrious, but poor People, He has expended all the Money he brought with him into this Coun- try (and wliich we are inform'd was consideraljlo) in Buildings «Sc other improvements, on a new Farm, whi(di has reduced bin) to very necessi- tous Circumstances: lie has had some small relief from this Town. We cannot avoid Karncstly recommending this Gentleman, now ad- vanc'd in years, — as an Object very worthy of a Charitable Assistance. The Rev'! yV. Moor at Hiillfdx, is from Ireland; lie is paid a salary of £!."><>, y aninim (the whole of which lie expends for the support of his Family) and but tor the exertion of a few individuals of our small Congrt'gation, (who contribute largely), this Gentleman's Subsistance would \)v too urecarious, to induce his continuance amonjfst us. The Rev'' M' Murdoch at Norton, i;i also from Ireland His priist^nt salary is about £70. I' annum, but as his people an; greatly in arrears to him, he complains for want of a sutHciency to support him com- fortably. The Rev'' M' Phelps at Cornwnllis, is from Connecticutt, His salary by agreement is £80, V aimura, but he says his People are not able to make good their Contract, and are of course very much in arrears. This Gentleman has purchas'd. a farm, built an Mouse and made other considerable improvements which has much embarrass'd him, and we believe he at present struggles hard for a subsistance, Yet we must observe, that this Town is one of the most thriving settlements in the Province. The Rev'' Mf Lyon at Truro., is from the Jerseys, — lie has no stated salary, but w(! suppose he may receive about £50, 'j:^ annum. He says he is often destitute of the necessary's of Life, Yet is encour- aged to continue, from a prospect of being supported in a better man- ner in future, as his people are Industrious and are making great improvements. ' Tilt' Kev. Joiui Seccombc was born at Medford, April 25, 1708, and gradu- ated at Harvard College in the Class of 1728. He was settled as the minister of Harvard, Massachusetts, from Oct. 10, 17iW, to September, 17o7, and of Chester, Nova Scotia, from 1763 to the time of his death on Oct. 27, 1792. The first ordination sermon preached in the Province of Nova Scotia was delivered by him in Halifax on July .3, 1770. He was the author of a humorous poem entitled "Father Abbey's Will," first published as u broadside, and afterward reprinted in " The Gentleman's Magazine " and " The European Magazine," both for May, 1781, and in " The Massachusetts Magazine " for November, 1794. Our late associate, the Kev. John Langdon Sibley, prepared an edition of this poem wliicii was privately printed in the year \6b\. 'Vhv. Ucv'' M' Gimrict ' at ('nmlierldnd In from New Kngl'l his nalary is al)out £80, >' iiiiiiiiin, whic^li is puid him by thu Kx^rtiori of u Hmall number of g(>iH!roii8 pisoph) there, that from him we hear no C(/mphuiitH. From tliis succinct accoimt (ientlomeii, You will he able to form some Judgment of the present situation of the Dissenting Cler