Rodgers  was  appointed  to  spend  a  number  of
weeks,  in  the  summer  and  autumn  of  that  year,
on  a  missionary  tour,  through  the  northern,  and
north  western  parts  of  the  province  of  New-York.
He  accordingly  devoted  several  months  to  that
service,  itinerating  and  preaching  the  gospel  with
unwearied  zeal  and  assiduity  ;  for  the  most  part  in
places  utterly  destitute  of  the  means  of  grace ;  gene-
rally with  great  acceptance ;  and  in  a  number  of
instances,  with  the  most  gratifying  success.  His
labours,  in  the  course  of  that  mission,  were  the
immediate  or  remote  means  of  forming  many
churches,  which  have  since  proved  large,  flou-
rishing, and  happy.
The  period  in  which  the  Doctor  fulfilled  this
mission,  was  the  period  rendered  memorable  by
the  warm  dispute  between  the  settlers  in  the  terri-
tory which  is  now  Vermont,  and  the  government
of  New-York,  which  claimed  that  territory  as
lying  within  its  jurisdiction.  Measures  of  great
decision,  and  even  violence,  had  been  taken  by
both  parties,  a  short  time  before  he  went  into  that


New-York.
