[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] lmild a small church, as a private house will seldom contain the people that went to church when I preach among them, which is as often as the duties of my extensive mission will permit.'' Mr. St. George Talbot, a liberal patron of the church, addressed the secretary of the society July 10, 1763, in which communication he says he "de-sired Mr. Dibble to accompany me to Salem, where he preached the first Sunday in Trinity to a large con-gregation,... and gave the communion to about thirty persons, who behaved very decently. There they have built and almost covered a church. ' The lot was on the borders of Cortlandt Manor and known as lot No. in. The edifice was thirty by forty feet, with galleries and glazed windows. The lot on which it was built was used as a burying-ground. Soon after the date of Mr. Dibble's letter the parish was united with Ridgefield and Ridgebury, Conn., and Richard S. Clark, a lay reader for that parish, assumed the services in this place, which he continued until 1766, when he went to England fur Holy Orders. The Rev. Mr. Dibble and the Rev. Mr. Learning then recommended to the society the appointment of Ebenezer Townsend as lav reader, w hich w as granted, and in 1767 he accepted leave to visit London-for