Upon the 3d of April, 1702, John Drake and Thomas Pinckney were authorized, "To agree with a carpenter to make a pulpit, and set up the gallery and repair the window shutters, &c."

At the same time, John Tompkins, jun., was also chosen " To beat the drum constantly, every Lord's day, if occasion require, and at other times when it is needful, and to keep the drum in repair ; and the said inhabitants do promise to pay him therefor 9 pence a piece, every one.''

"April 14th, 1702, the inhabitants of Eastchester have given liberty unto Mr. Joseph Morgan, our minister, that is to say the use of that part of meadow by and near unto Saml. Water's house, and that he shall have the use of the said meadow for the term of ten years after the date hereof."6

On the 18th of May, 1703, the inhabitants of Eastchester appointed Mr. Thos. Pinkney and Mr. Edmund Ward " To draw an obligation with Mr. Joseph Morgan, minister, for one year, for his encouragement, and to see who will subscribe thereunto for the payment of the town."

Mr. Morgan, who must have resigned the pastoral charge of Eastchester sometime during the above-mentioned year, was the son of Lieut. Joseph Morgan, (of what is now Preston County by his wife Dorothy, daughter of Thomas Parke, of Weathcrsfield), the third son of James Morgan, a native of Wales, who was born in 1607, and who emmigrated to Roxbury, Mass., in 1638. The Rev. Joseph was born at Preston 6th of November, 1671. "His name stands on the catalogue of Yale College as one of the graduates in the class of 1702, but he was probably not a regular graduate ; and the degree of A. B. was doubtless conferred upon him as an honarary one -- for according to the " History of Greenwich," Conn., he was settled over the First Church, Greenwich, in 1697, and in 1700, dismissed and settled over Second Church, Greenwich.