In 1685 it was agreed to build a town house, fourteen feet long and twelve feet broad, and to set it up by the highway side between the houses of Captain William Haiden and Richard Shute.

Beside the home lots, the proprietors held equal shares in the planting lands, (situated on the west side of Rattlesnake brook,) the commons, or Conoval meadows, and the sheep pasture.

At a town meeting, held 21st February, 1705, the inhabitants did agree by vote, " that all the land below Annhooks brook, and also a strait line from the old meadow to the head of Rattlesnake brook, beside

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ft This gentleman who for nearly half a century tilled the olTice of senior warden of St. rani's church, Eastchester, was a descendant of Henry fowler, one of the original patentees of this town. His father was William Fowler, the sun'of Joseph, whose family once held the Seton farm. The brother of Joseph was Col. Jonathan Fowler, the father of Abraham, whose son. the Rev. John Fowler, now owns the old Fowler mansion and estate.

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all the land between Hutchinsons brook, and Rattlesnake brook, to the extent of the half mile shall be for a perpetual sheep pasture."0

Upon the 30th of May, 1707, John Drake and Edmund Ward were chosen sheep-masters by the freeholders of Eastchester.

The town and village of Eastchester were distinguished, in our early colonial annals, for the active part they took in favor of Governor Leisler; for we find " Leisler's party strengthened on the 3d of June, 1689, by the addition of six captains and four hundred men in New York, and a company of seventy men from Eastchester, who had all subscribed on that day a solemn declaration to preserve the Protestant religion and the fort of New York for the Prince of Orange and the Governor whom the Prince might appoint as their protector."6