CHAPTER XXI.

THE   RECTORSHIP   OF   DR.   AUCHMUTY,   CONTINUED.

Sir William Tryon, Governor—View of the Policy of the Home Government towards
the Gentry and the Church in the Provinces—Founding of the New York Hospital—
Clergy Present an Address to Governor Tryon—Death of George Harison—Marriage
of the Rev. Mr. Inglis—Address to General Gage—Marriage of Stephen De Lancey
and Miss Barclay—Death of Mrs. Mary Goelet—Anneke Jans Heirs—Robert Leake—
Schismatical Attempt to Organize a New Congregation—Bogardus Claimants—Lieut.
Gov. Colden—Death of Dr. Ogilvie—Rev. Benjamin Moore and Rev, John Eowden
Elected—Rev. John Vardill.

IN the year 1771, Lord Dunmore was transferred to
Virginia, and Sir William Tryon, Baronet, took his
place at New York. For three years thereafter, there
was a show of peace outside, with no end of trouble fer¬
menting within. It was but the lull before the tempest;
men knew it, and their hearts were already failing them
for fear, and for looking on those things that were coming
on the earth. The churches had rest, however; the gov¬
ernor made handsome gifts to St. George's Chapel, as we
have already seen ; and the pious and scholarly Auchmuty,
with his assistants, the gentle Moore, the sensitive Bow-
den, and the stanch Inglis, were doing their work, thought¬
fully and anxiously, and praying for peace. The record
of those days is weird enough; royal governors flitting to
and fro, now arriving and anon disappearing ; citizens and
soldiers brawling in the streets ; tea riots adding an aro¬
matic flavor to the highly charged atmosphere ; assemblies
obsequious to the executive; and weather-casts through¬
out the sky, showing the deep-fermenting tempest brewing
in the air.