Samuel Goding who received instructions to read in the Bible and other good sermon books, and so to carry on the Sabbath exercises in East Chester. On the 30th of November, 1692, the inhabitants of East Chester agreed to pay the following sums towards the support of Mr. Samuel Goding :

Henry Fowler offers one bushel of good winter wheat. John Tompkins 3 0 John Drake 4 0

John Clark 2 0 John Pinckney 5 pecks of Indian corn.

Joseph Drake 4 0 William Gray 2 0

Thomas Pinckney 3 0 John Shute 3 0

Isaac Taylor 2 0 Ben. Taylor 2 0

Thomas Shute 4 6.

Upon the 9th of May, 1693, it was resolved that a meeting-house should be built according to the dimensions agreed upon. " On the 1 6th inst it was agreed that the whole charge of building the said house shall be paid according unto the estates of every particular person's list taken." At the same time " Captain William Haiden. John Drake, John Pinckney, Richard Shute and Henry Fowler, Senior, were chosen overseers to superintend the building of the meeting-house."

By an act of Provincial Assembly passed 21st September, 1693, (confinned nth of May, 1697), East Chester • became one of the four precints6 of West Chester Parish.

a Riker's Annals of Newtown, L. I., p. 114.

ft Acts of Assembly from uwi to 1721. As early as 1609 we find the following order In tile Town Rec, "The bounds of our parish to be preiunbulated according to law," Book L p. 23.