Soon  after  leaving  college  he  commenced  preparation   for\oly
orders,  and  was  ordained  Deacon,  by  Bishop  Hobart,  on  the  4th  of
November,  1814,  within  one  week  after  he  had  attained  the  canoni-
cal age.     In  the  summer  of  1815,  he  accepted  the  rectorship  of  the
church  in  Hudson,  on  the  North  River.     In  the  latter  part  of  the
year  1818,  he  left  Hudson,  and  removed  to  Fayetteville,  N.  C.,
having  been  invited  to  assume  the  duties  of  rector  of  the  church  in
that  place.     Here  he  remained  successfully  occupied  in  the  labors
of  his  profession  for  more  than  three  years,  when  he  was  induced,
from  declining  health,  to  seek  a  more  northern  residence.     On  his
return  to  his  native  State,  he  made  a  short  visit  to  Philadelphia,
and  during  his  stay  of  a  few  clays  arrangements  were  made  for  the
erection  of  a  new  church,  of  which  he  was  to  be  the  rector.     The
corner-stone  was  laid  September  9th,  1822,  and  it  was  consecrated


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50  EMINENT    PIIILADELPHIANS.
