This Society has uniformly treated its ministers honorably and kindly. It has always acted with a good degree of unanimity. In every instance, except the first, the Society has found it difficult to unite in the calling of a pastor. At such times feeling has often run high, and when a call was voted, there has often been a few votes in the negative But the call once given and the pastor settled, parties have disappeared and all united in treating the man with the respect due to his office. Of the 8 pastors who have preceded the present, 3—Boardman, Taylor, and Elliot—died in office. Mr. Griswold left voluntarily, without any action on the part of the Church or Society. Mr. Porter resigned because of his “physical inability to perform the duties belonging to so large and scattered a parish.” Mr. Murdoch resigned to accept the invitation of the Third Church in New Haven. In regard to Mr. Rood, the Church and Society both voted unanimously that a change was needful for their well being; but even then, it voted him a gift of $400 and borrowed the money to give it to him. In the only other instance in which a change was desired, it was solely because of the physical infirmity of the pastor, who was as universally admired for his talents, as he was revered for his character. On his resignation, the Society voted him a donation of $500. The Society has always cared for the comfort of its pastors and been faithful to its promises to them. In the times of Messrs. Boardman and Taylor it was very poor and did not always pay promptly; but then it allowed interest on all arrearages. It gave Mr. Boardman a settlement in land and increased his salary from £50 and 40 cords of wood, “good and suitable for the fire,” to £125. It gave Mr. Taylor a settlement of £1,000, payable in installments within three years, and increased his salary from time to time at his request. But in 1779—“the time that tried men’s souls”—Mr. Taylor, “trusting to the generosity of the members of the Society,” relinquished his salary of £150, lawful money, from May 1st, 1778, to May 1st, 1779. And in 1782, Mr. Taylor, “taking into consideration the great burden and heavy taxes now lying on the people by reason of the present war, and he, being free and willing to bear a proportionate part of the cost and burden with others of the Society,” did “abate and discharge to said Society, the sum of £30, lawful money” from what was then due to him. And the Society, in its vote of thanks, “allowed that £30 was his full equal part, according to his interest or estate.” On the ordination of Mr. Griswold the Society voted Mr. Taylor “a gratuity of £80, in addition to all arrears then due to him.” Mr. Griswold’s settlement was £200, with a salary of £100, “payable in gold or silver, or produce at such prices as he would accept, with interest on all arrears.” £15 was afterwards added to his salary “because he did not receive so much wood