CHAPTER X.

THE   ADMINISTRATION   OF   LORD   LOVELACE.

Address by the Vestry—Letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury on the State of the
Church—Huguenot Congregation at New Rochelle Conforms to the Church of Eng¬
land—Letters of Colonel Heathcote on this Subject—Early Close of this Administration
—Sermon by Mr. Vesey on the Death of Governor Lovelace—Military Operations of
1709—Continued Growth of the Church.

THE downfall of Lord Cornbury was ruinous and com¬
plete. On his removal from ofifice his creditors
took occasion to throw him into the common jail, then
connected with the City Hall in Wall Street, where he
lay until, on the death of his father, he found himself in
possession of funds sufficient to enable him to discharge
his legal obligations ; then he departed, never to return.
John, Lord Lovelace, Baron of Hurley, succeeded him as
Governor of New York and New Jersey. The appoint¬
ment was made March 28, 1708 ; the order to prepare his
commission was given April 19th; and on the 17th of
December following he reached New York, after a pas¬
sage, as he says, of " nine weeks and Odd days" on the
Kingsdale packet. He remarks that " our winter sets in
very hard, the Ports and Rivers are full of ice," and that
" our poor Seamen were so benumned with the Cold,
that at last we had but twenty-five men fit for any Duty,
and had not the Soldiers, which we had on board assisted,
the Ship had been in great danger."

An address to Lord Lovelace was approved and ordered
to be "fairly engross'd," in which address the Vestry say
that

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