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like in many other towns; and many Negroes that are slaves in particular families, some of which go to Church but most of them to meeting."

In New York a population of twenty-five thousand was settled in twenty-five towns, ten Dutch, the rest English. The Dutch were Calvinists, the English, "some of them Independents, but many of them no religion, but like wild Indians." Mr. Vesey, rector of Trinity Church for fifty years, and much of that time commissary for the Bishop of London in the province, appealed for missionaries. Presbyterians, Indepen- dents, Quakers, Anabaptists, French Protestants, "poor Palatines" from Germany were among those whom the missionaries won; Negro and Indian slaves of the city and the free Indians of the northern borders all became their care.

But how could there be clergy enough? How might candidates for the ministry receive their Orders?

In 1704 Keith returned permanently to England, taking the report of his two years' work and remain- ing to counsel with the society there. Talbot continued in the colonies and began at once his pleas to the Church at home for "a Bishop or Suffragan apud Americanos." "The need might have been filled had there been a Bishop." In 1706 he visited England, making the reiterated appeal, endorsed by the clergy of New Jersey. In 1712 a committee of the S. P. G. considered the support and residence of bishops for America—two for the islands, two for the mainland— but Queen Anne died, the ministry under Sir Robert Walpole opposed the plan, and the project was abandoned, save for the purchase of a bishop's house in Burlington, New Jersey. In 1722 Doctor Welton was