CHAPTER XIX.

THE   REV.   SAMUEL   AUCHMUTY,  D.D.

Election to the Rectorship—Rev. Charles Inglis Called as Assistant—Declines—Rev.
John Ogilvie Elected—Inglis Accepts and Comes to New York—Political Excitement—
Sir Henry Moore Governor—Convention of Clergy 1758—St. Paul's Chapel—Descrip¬
tion—Opened Oct. 30, 1767—Clergy Minister to Criminals under Sentence of Death—
Rectory Built—Mortier's Paper Mill.

THE character and abilities of Mr. Samuel Auchmuty,
the Assistant at Trinity Church marked him as the
man to fill the place made vacant by Dr. Barclay's death.
The action of the Vestry was prompt ; it had the approval
of the entire community. Within a week, Mr. Auchmuty
was elected and installed as Rector of Trinity Church.

On the 28th August, 1764, the following entry appears
in the Records:

" It is unanimously Resolved and Ordered that the Reverend Mr.
Samuel Auchmuty be and he is hereby elected, called and Chosen to
be Rector of Trinity Church in the place of the Reverend Doctor
Henry Barclay late Rector, deceased, and that Mr. Williams and Mr.
Stuyvesant be desired to wait on the said Mr. Auchmuty to acquaint
him with this resolution and to know if he will accept of the said Call
and report his answer thereupon immediately to this Board."

Mr. Williams and Mr. Stuyvesant having waited on
Mr. Auchmuty, pursuant to their appointment, reported
his acceptance of the said call, and on being introduced
into the vestry room he again declared his assent.
Whereupon it is

" ordered that this Board present the said Mr. Auchmuty to his Honour
the Lieutenant Governor, and desire he may be admitted & Instituted

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