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courses on Gal. ii :30 in the house of Mr. Cozens, New London. He visited and preached in these settlements twice between this period and the settle- ment of Dr. Keir in Princetown, in 1810, and that of Rev. Mr. Pidgeon in St. Peters, in 1811. After the settlement of these two faithful sentinels, one in the east and the other in the west, Dr. McGregor’s missionary labors were confined almost exclusively to his extensive field on the mainland.

Rev. John Keir from the time of his settlement in 'Princetown gave a part of his services to Cavendish and New London; having, however, the whole of Prince county and a part of Queens under his pas- toral oversight, the amount of supply given to Cav- endish and New London must have been very limited indeed. But a congregation composed largely of such men as the McNeills and the Lairds, the Lockerbys and the Simpsons, when they had no settled minister were well able to conduct intelli- gently, amongst themselves, religious services, and did so until they obtained a pastor of their own.

Having constituted a part of Mr. Keir’s charge for twenty years, Cavendish and New London were organized into a separate and distinct congregation on 16th June, 1826. On the same day moderation in a call was granted to this new field which resulted in favor of Mr. Hugh Dunbar, who accepted the in- vitation, and was ordained and inducted as their pastor on 27th March, 1827. The ministers taking part in the ordination and induction services were Revs. John Keir, Robert Douglas and R. S. Patter-

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