" May it please the venerable and honorable Society for Propagating the Gospel -- we, whose names are subscribed, do hereby certify that the Church of Eastchester was built in the year of our Lord, 1692, by subscription of the inhabitants of said town ; and that Mr. Matthews, a Presbyterian minister, for about three years, and after him Mr. Morgan, a Presbyterian minister, did preach till such time as Mr. Bartow began to preach unto us in the year 1763, since which time it has been in his possession, and he comes and preaches at Eastchester once in four weeks during the winter, and once in eight weeks during the space of six months in the summer.

" And we further certify that the town of Eastchester was made a distinct parish from Westchester in the year 1700."

About this time the inhabitants addressed the following petition to Governor Cornbury, asking for an abatement in their annual quota and thanking him for directing Mr. Bartow to preach among them : --

PETITION FROM EASTCHESTER TO HIS EXCELLENCY, &o. "The Humble Petition of John Drake, Joseph Drake and William Chadderton in the behalf of themselves and the inhabitants of Eastchester, Slieiceth :

That Col. Heathcote. did, at the request of your Excellency's Petitioners, move your Excellency to give directions that what the Vestry had layd on the parish of Westchester for incidental charges over the minister's rate and constable's allowance for allowing the same, might be abated from the qnoata layd on our place, we being burtheued with much more than our just proportion of that tax; that Col. Heatcote did thereupon inform your Excellency's Petitioner's, that your Excellency had been pleased to direct that some of the Justices which lived without the precincts, should make inquiry into that matter and make report thereof to your Excellency, but the Justices not being able before this" time to get in the list of estates was the cause of the delay of that return, so hope your Excellency will pardon our not leavying what was layd upon us, by the late Vestry, and will, in your great goodness and justice, protect us from paying more than our fair and equal proportion, which we shall always most readily do, so long as your Excellency shall think fitt to continue us joyned to that Parish.