But they did find it.

So long as the Americans seemed dependent on English consecration they could not get it.

When at last it was made quite plain that they could and would do without it if necessary, they were more than welcome to it.

Dr.White for Pennsylvania, and Dr.Provoost for New York, were consecrated by the Archbishop of Canterbury at the chapel of Lambeth Palace, February 4, 1787.

Dr.Griffith, elected for Virginia, failed to be present; in all that great diocese there was not interest enough felt in the matter to raise the money to pay his passage to England and back.
The American Episcopal Church was at last in a condition to live.