The origin and history of Grace church, Jamaica, New York . addressed to all andsingular, the rectors, vicars, chaplains, curates, clergymen,and ministers, whatsoever, in and throughout the wholeProvince wherever established: and, also to Samuel Fishand Samuel Smith, present Church Wardens of the Paro-chial Church of Jamaica, on Long Island, in the Provinceof New York. It presented Thos. Colgan to the rectoryor parochial church; it firmly enjoined and commandedthem, to collate and induct the said Thomas Colgan, or hislawful proctor in his name and for himself, into the real,actual and corporea
The origin and history of Grace church, Jamaica, New York . addressed to all andsingular, the rectors, vicars, chaplains, curates, clergymen,and ministers, whatsoever, in and throughout the wholeProvince wherever established: and, also to Samuel Fishand Samuel Smith, present Church Wardens of the Paro-chial Church of Jamaica, on Long Island, in the Provinceof New York. It presented Thos. Colgan to the rectoryor parochial church; it firmly enjoined and commandedthem, to collate and induct the said Thomas Colgan, or hislawful proctor in his name and for himself, into the real,actual and corporeal possession of said rectory or church,with all its rights and appurtenances. OF GRACE CHURCH 79 The Vestry refused to pay Mr. Colgan any salary beforehis induction or after it, and he brought suit for the £60due him before his induction. The dissenting wardenssought by special act of the Assembly to divert it from him,but were unsuccessful. From that time there were no further complaints ofnon payment of salary, no law suits nor quarrels.(—Onderdonk.). Grace Church, 1734. (From an old print.) The spirit of his ministry was well expressed in his letterto the Society, a few years after, describing the new churchwhich had been built, as one of the handsomest in NorthAmerica. Our Church is flourishing and many areadded to it. We are at peace with the Sectarians around 80 ORIGIN AND HISTORY us. I shall be of a loving and charitable demeanor toevery persuasion. Mr. Colgan undertook to erect churches in the threetowns. One was built in Newtown in 1735. it is stillstanding and in use for the Sunday School of St. in Flushing, eleven years after, in 1746. From the beginning of Mr. Colgans rectorship, the Church in Newtown prospered. In five years hehad baptized there twenty-three persons in two families,and many others, both white and black, and distributedamong the poor the books sent over by the Society. InFlushing and Jamaica, Quaker families conformed to th
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