On 3 December 1672, he was ordained to the Ministry and settled over the church at York,[REF] on the recommendation of Richard Banks, his brother-in-law,[REF] and Edward Rishworth.
At this time, the people of the church were poor with the early settlers in the town being adventurers; the town had had no one preacher for any length of time and was seen as "an asylum for excommunicated and itinerant ministers" [REF].