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While in London, he received from the Society for Propagating the Gospel, the appointment of catechist to Trinity Church, New York, in the place of Rev. Mr. Neau. He embarked for America soon after receiving his ordination, and arrived in New York, September 24, 1723.

It appears from the proceedings of the last mentioned Society, that he attended to the catechizing of the blacks every Wednesday, Friday and Sunday evenings, at his own house, besides in the church every Sunday before evening, service; and that he had sometimes nearly 200 children and servants to instruct.

In 1726 Mr. Wetmore was called to the parish of Rye, and was installed in his parish duties, June 19th, agreeable to the letters of induction of His Excellency Governor Burnett.

In a very long letter, dated Rye, February 20, 1727–8, Mr. Wetmore gives a most interesting account of the Church at Rye, built "in the year 1706, the materials of which are rough stone from the foundation to the roof," and also of the many and serious disadvantages with which he is compelled to labor. This letter has been preserved in the archives at Fulham, I. 683–694.—Dr. Hawks.

In a letter to the Secretary of the Society, dated April 2, 1752, Mr. Wetmore states that " the party disputes which have run high among us for several years, to my great grief, obstruct the success which I might otherwise hope for, in my endeavors to promote a becoming zeal for piety and reformation of manners among the looser sort of my parishioners, which are too numerous."

"I am glad to hear of more visible success among my brethren, especially in Stamford Parish, which I am told flourishes happily, and increases by the dilligent endeavors of good brother Dibblee, who, nevertheless, finds himself hard put to it, to support a family with so small a salary as he has, and I am afraid the zeal of some young men in New England, to undertake the ministry with such slender