. Catholic footsteps in old New York, a chronicle of Catholicity in the city of New York from 1524 to 1808 . hether approved by the Su-perior or not, as I formerly heard they said, andnow the fact proves. The princij)le is of the mostpernicious consequences, and must be contra-dicted. Despite the disapproval of the spiritual au-thorities, the negotiations between Father Nu-gent and the trustees continued, and, April 13th,Father Farmer wrote to the Superior: TheTrustees at New York offered Mr. Nugent, forhis yearly salary, three hundred dollars, the Sun-day collections included; but he demanded
. Catholic footsteps in old New York, a chronicle of Catholicity in the city of New York from 1524 to 1808 . hether approved by the Su-perior or not, as I formerly heard they said, andnow the fact proves. The princij)le is of the mostpernicious consequences, and must be contra-dicted. Despite the disapproval of the spiritual au-thorities, the negotiations between Father Nu-gent and the trustees continued, and, April 13th,Father Farmer wrote to the Superior: TheTrustees at New York offered Mr. Nugent, forhis yearly salary, three hundred dollars, the Sun-day collections included; but he demanded fourhundred, upon which they declared to him if hewas not satisfied he had liberty to depart andwelcome. Father Nugent, at this time, lived at No. 1Hunters Quay. Father John OConnell, Vicarof the Hospital of Irish Dominicans, at Bilbao,Spain, arrived in New York, May 17th. He hadbeen selected to be chaplain of the Spanish Em-bassy. The Bishop of Corinth, Papal Nuncio tothe Court of Spain, granted him ordinary facul-ties of a missionary on the Kings OConnell, the first of the Irish Domin-. ST. PETER S OLD CHURCH IN OLD NEW YORK 379 icans to serve in New York, remained in thecity until late in 1789. He did some missionarywork among the people. Notwithstanding the unj)leasant relations ex-isting between Superior, pastor and people, No-vember 4th, 1786, was a joyous day for the twohundred Catholics in New York city. On thatday, the Feast of St. Charles Borromeo, thechurch edifice was sufficiently far advanced tohold divine service therein. High Mass was sol-emnized by Father Andrew Nugent, assisted bythe chaplains of the French and Spanish embas-sies, followed by a sermon. After the servicesthe Spanish minister, Don Diego Gardoqui, en-tertained, at a dinner in the Embassy, all the menof note in the city. Louis Stephen Le Couteulx De Caumont andhis wife, a niece of General Toussard, a Frenchofficer who had served under Lafayette in theRevolutionary War, arrived in th
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