"The coach, which would at the present time be thought an extremely slow one, was fourteen days in the journey, carrying news to and fro once a month.""

Beneath the shade of the venerable locusts (which still adorn the green,) stood the village stocks, erected in 1720.^ Embedded in the bark of one of the trees, may be seen the iron staple to which culprits were formerly attached and publicly whipped. Upon the green, between the locust trees and the present church yard, stood the old parish church, built by the Independents about 1699.

The first settlers of Eastchester, like the people in general ofc that day, paid early attention to religion, to the support of the gospel, andihe institutions of the Church to which they belonged. The congregational church in this place was gathered in 1665; for, in that year it was ordered: "That all and every one of us, or that shall be of us, do pay unto the minister according to his mead," also, "that we give new encouragement to Mr. Brewster each other week, to give us a word of exhortation."e A. D. 1670, it was further enacted: "That whereas we being a society of christians living together, have agreed that all of those of our association shatt join together in meeting on Lord's days to tell about the worship of God; it was also resolved that whereas Moses Hoit being deserter, and being behind, and not seeming to be willing to contribute unto our minister, whereupon the inhabitants of Eastchester have agreed that the said Moses shall be presented unto the next Court of Sessions," &c.