. History of Queens County, New York, with illustrations, portraits, & sketches of prominent families and individuals . 24—a period of 20years. Major-General Thomas Thomas, ofthe Continental army, was a grandson of the Rev. JohnThomas. After an interval of two years the vacancy caused bythe death of the Rev. Mr. Thomas was filled by the ap-pointment to the parish of the Rev. Robert Jenney, agraduate of Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, who had forsome years been officiating as the missionary at Rye,Westchester county. Under his exertions the parishcontinued to prosper. He saw the time had come
. History of Queens County, New York, with illustrations, portraits, & sketches of prominent families and individuals . 24—a period of 20years. Major-General Thomas Thomas, ofthe Continental army, was a grandson of the Rev. JohnThomas. After an interval of two years the vacancy caused bythe death of the Rev. Mr. Thomas was filled by the ap-pointment to the parish of the Rev. Robert Jenney, agraduate of Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, who had forsome years been officiating as the missionary at Rye,Westchester county. Under his exertions the parishcontinued to prosper. He saw the time had come tohave the parish placed upon an independent and stablefoundation, and being a man of much personal influenceand enterprise he achieved his purpose. By a vote ofthe freeholders of the town he obtained a transfer of thechurch and parsonage and glebe to the parish, and therelease was followed and confirmed to the parish by acharter from George II., granted in 1735. This charter L (jround Plan ofOlJ_ C/ufj^c/i. 1. Communiofz Table. 2,3&4. Pulpil,7^eadinq and CIcr/^sDesk. 0, South jDoor. 6- Tower ik West Corporate , op St. Georges Chukcr, 1735. 176 HISTORY OF QUEENS COUNTY. is still in full force as the organic law ofthe parish, and in this respect is, it is be-lieved, a single exception to the manycharters granted by the royal authority was confirmed by the consti-tution of the State of New York adoptedin 1777. It has never been submitted tothe Legislature for alteration or amend-ment; even the title—The Inhabitants ofHempstead in Communion with the Churchof England —remains unaltered. Whileoiher chartered parishes have petitionedto have changes made St. Georges hasfound the provisions of its charter adaptedto all the exigencies which have old church which had been given bythe town was found inconvenient and toosmall, and it was removed and anotherbuilt—not by tax, as the former one, but bythe gifts of members of the parish. Itwas op
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