*The Rev. Wm. Jarvis, residing at Chatham.

The Rev. Stephen Jewett, residing at New Haven.

The Rev. Isaac Jones.

*The Rev. Zebediah Hyde Mansfield, Minister of St. John's Church, Warehouse Point.

*The Rev. Truman Marsh, residing at Litchfield.

The Rev. Wm. C. Mead, D. D., Rector of St. Paul's Church, Norwalk. The Rev. Joseph H. Nichols, residing at Greenfield Hill.

The Rev. Abel Nichols, Minister of St. Mark's Church, Bridgewater. *The Rev. Birdsey G. Noble, residing at Bridgeport.

The Rev. David Ogden, Rector of St. Mark's Church, New Canaan.

The Rev. Seth B. Paddock, Rector of Christ Church, Norwich.

The Rev. Wm. Payne, Minister of St. Michael's Church, Litchfield. *The Rev. Dexter Potter, Rector of St. James' Church, Preston, (Poquetonnuck.)

*The Rev. Lucius M. Purdy.

The Rev. Nathaniel S. Richardson, Minister of Christ Church, Watertown. The Rev. Rodney Rossiter, Rector of St. Peter's Church, Monroe.

*The Rev. John H. Rouse, Rector of Christ Church, Bethany.

*The Rev. Thomas G. Salter.

*The Rev. Thomas S. Savage, Missionary to Africa.

The Rev. Joseph Scott, Rector of St. James' Church, Derby.

*The Rev. George C. Shepherd.

The Rev. Henry B. Sherman, Minister of St. Paul's Church, Windham. The Rev. David H. Short, Rector of St. James' Church, Danbury, and St. Thomas' Chapel, Bethel.

*The Rev. John D. Smith, Rector of Union Church, Humphreysville. *The Rev. Albert Spooner, residing at Norwich.

*The Rev. George A. Sterling, officiating in Christ Church, Middle Haddam.

The Rev. Servilius Stocking, Rector of St. John's Church, North Haven, and St. Andrew's Church, Northford.

The Rev. Samuel C. Stratton, Rector of Trinity Church, Newtown.
The Rev. Foster Thayer, Rector of St. Paul's Church, Huntington.
The Rev. Ambrose S. Todd, Rector of St. John's Church, Stamford.
*The Rev. Charles J. Todd, Rector of Christ Church, Reading.
The Rev. David G. Tomlinson, Rector of Christ Church, Trumbull.
The Rev. Silas Totten, D. D., President of Washington College, Hartford.
*The Rev. Joseph D. Tyler, Instructor in the Asylum for the Deaf and
Dumb, Hartford.

The Rev. Thomas H. Vail, Rector of St. John's Church, Essex.
The Rev. William Warland, Jr., Rector of Grace Church, Saybrook.
The Rev. Wm. Watson, Rector of St. Peter's Church, Plymouth.

*The Rev. Nathaniel S. Wheaton, D. D., Rector of Christ Church, New Orleans.

*The Rev. George S. White, Canterbury.

*The Rev. Milton Wilcox, Simsbury.

*The Rev. John Williams.

*The Rev. Edwin W. Wiltbank, Rector of Christ Church, Stratford. The Rev. F. B. Woodward, Minister of St. Matthew's Church, Plymouth. The Rev. John W. Woodward, Rector of Christ Church, Salem. *The Rev. Benjamin M. Yarrington, Minister of Christ Church, Greenwich.

Clergymen with this mark (*) prefixed to their names, were not present during the session of the Convention.

The following Parishes paid their assessment for 1839, as required by

The following Parishes did not pay into the Convention Fund, for the cur

APPENDIX, NO. II.

CONSTITUTION

OF THE

SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF CHRISTIAN

KNOWLEDGE, 1839.

ART. 1. This Society shall be called "THE CONNECTICUT PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE."

ART. 2. The Bishop of the Diocese shall be, ex officio, President of the Society; and the Bishop and the Standing Committee shall constitute the Board of Directors. The Secretary of the Standing Committee shall be the Secretary and Treasurer of the Society.

ART. 3. The Board shall meet as often as the interests of the Society may require; and may take such measures as they may think expedient, to obtain funds. They shall employ Missionaries within the Diocese; and may cause to be procured and distributed or sold, Bibles, Prayer Books, and Religious Tracts, in such manner as they may think proper.

ART. 4. The Secretary shall keep a register of the names of the members and donors, with the amount of their contributions; and a record of the collections made in congregations, or by Auxiliary Societies.

ART. 5. All moneys received for the benefit of the Society, shall be subject to the order of the Board, and shall be by them appropriated to the purposes specified in Article 3.

ART. 6. Persons contributing one dollar annually shall be members of the Society; those who contribute five dollars at one time shall be members for life, and those who contribute twenty dollars, shall be patrons.

ART. 7. There shall be divine service, and a sermon, or addresses, delivered at every annual session of the Convention, and a collection made for the benefit of the Society.

ART. 8. The Board shall make an annual report of their proceedings to the Convention; and the Treasurer shall also make a report of the state of the funds; which reports, or so much of them as the Convention may direct, shall be entered on the Journals.

ART. 9. No alteration shall be made in this Constitution, without having been proposed to the Convention, at least one day before it is acted upon; and the Convention alone shall have power to make alterations.

Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge, in account with Samuel Farmar Jarvis, Treasurer. DR.

1838.

June 13, To cash paid on the appropriations made August 3, 1837,

and due at Easter, as follows:

To the Rev. Levi H. Corson, for missionary services, at
Guilford,

$25.00

To the Rev. David Ogden, New Canaan,
To the Rev. Thomas Clark, Huntington,

25.00

25.00

To the Rev. E. E. Beardsley, Cheshire,

50.00

To Mr. Uriel Spencer, Warden, for missionary aid,
Hitchcocksville,

35.00

To the Rev. Jos. H. Nichols, for missionary services
at Greenwich,

25.00

To the Rev. E. J. Darken, balance due at Easter, for
missionary services in Weston, as per Journal of
1838, p. 41, note,

19.67

To the Rev. Oliver Hopson, for missionary services
at Middlebury,

25.00

To the Rev. Alpheus Geer, Hebron,

21,

July 22,

To the Rev. Calvin Wolcott, for performing divine
service in St. James' Church, Poquetonnuck, for two
quarters and one sixth, at the rate of $150 per an-
num. See Journal of 1838, p. 41, note,
To the Rev. J. M. Tappan, for missionary services
in Essexborough, as per appropriation of June 12th,
1838,

To cash paid Rev. Hilliard Bryant, for missionary services
in Bradleyville, as per appropriation of June 12, 1838,
To cash paid Rev. Silas Blaisdale, for missionary services
due last Easter, by appropriation of August 3, 1837,
To cash paid widow of the Rev. S. Beach, for missionary
services at East Haddam, according to resolution passed
July 6, 1838, through the Bishop,

Oct. 16, To cash paid Emmanuel Russell, Treasurer of St. Mark's
Church, New Britain, advanced by him to the Rev. Thos.
J. Davis, for missionary services in that Parish, due last
Easter,

$385.92

50.00

50.00

25.00

75.00

23,

To cash paid Rev. Henry Fitch, due at Michaelmas, for
missionary services at Hamden,

To cash paid Rev. Joseph H. Nichols, $25; Rev. J. M. Tap-
pan, $25; Rev. Wm. G. Heyer, $25; being the Mich-
aelmas payment for missionary services in Greenwich,
Essexborough, and East Haddam,

7, To cash paid Rev. E. E. Beardsley, for missionary services in
Cheshire,

75.00

9, To cash paid Rev. David H. Short, for missionary services
in Danbury,

To cash paid Rev. A. B. Chapin, for missionary services
in Westville,

28, To cash paid Rev. David Ogden, $25; Rev. Oliver Hopson,
$25; Rev. Servilius Stocking, $25; Rev. Z. H. Mans-
field, $25; being the Michaelmas payment for missionary
services in New Canaan, Middlebury, West Haven, and
Warehouse Point,

Dec. 17, To cash paid Rev. Šilas Blaisdale, for missionary services

in Salem,

100.00

50.00

Amount carried over,

$948.42

1839.

DR.

Jan. 1, To amount of cash paid, brought forward,

April 12, To cash paid Rev. Silas Blaisdale, being the Easter pay

ment for missionary services in Salem,

15, To cash paid Rev. David Ogden, for missionary services
in New Canaan,

To cash paid the 4th instant, by E. Lacy, Cashier, the Bish-
op's order in favour of Rev. Joseph H. Nichols, for mis-
sionary services in Greenwich,

"18, To cash paid Rev. E. E. Beardsley, for missionary services
at Cheshire,

"29, To cash paid Samuel Ingham, Esq., being the Easter allow-
ance voted to the Rev. James M. Tappan, for missionary
services in Essexborough,

May 11, To cash paid Rev. Z. H. Mansfield, for missionary services
at Warehouse Point,
"20, To cash paid Rev. Henry Fitch, due at Easter, for mission-

ary services at Hamden,

June 8, To cash paid sundry postages,

To balance to be carried to new account,

Per Contra,

$948.42

50.00

25.00

25.00

25.00

25.00

25.00

37.50

0.66

583.28

$1744.86

CR.

1838.

June 11, By balance from last account, as per Journal of 1838, p. 39, $121.08 "13, By cash, being the amount received at the Annual Conven

tion, from forty-two Parishes, and a collection in Christ
Church, Hartford, at the Annual Sermon, as per Jour-
nal of 1838, p. 42,
By cash from Rev. Calvin Wolcott, as follows: from the
Ladies' Sewing Circle, $25; and monthly collection at Po-
quetonnuck, $12; collected from friends of the Church
in Norwich and New London, $10.50,

July 6, By cash from Mr. John Bishop, through the Rev. Dr. Croswell, being a contribution to the Society from the Parish of East Haven,

7, By cash from the Rev. Allen C. Morgan, Treasurer of the Convention, refunding the loan made August 3, 1837, according to the resolution on p. 11th of Journal of 1838, "17, By cash from St. John's Church, Bridgeport, by Charles

Foote, Cashier,

Oct. 19, By cash received from St. Mark's Church, New Canaan,
"23, By cash from the offerings of Trinity Church, New Haven,
Nov. 7, By cash from New Haven County Clerical Association, by

Rev. L. B. Hull,

819.25

47.50

3.32

115.00

20.00

5.00

37.50

5.18

1839. Jan. 1, By cash, Christmas offerings from Christ Church, Middletown, 20.00 Feb. 15, By cash, amount of collections from Easter to Christmas, 1838,

in Christ Church, Salem, by Rev. Silas Blaisdale, 6.00 "28, By cash from Trinity Church, Newtown, by Rev. S. C. Stratton, 6.00 Mar. 30, By cash from Union Church, Hitchcocksville, Christmas

offering, by Uriel Spencer,

5.85

April 10, By cash, amount of Easter offerings in Christ Church, Salem, by the Rev. Silas Blaisdale,

By cash, Easter offerings from Christ Church, Middletown, 20, By cash," offerings of the Church," from St. James' Church, Danbury, through the Rev. D. H. Short,

12.00