"My Brother Vaughan informs me, that Archbishop Tennison hath left upon his will, ^50 per annum, to be paid to the oldest missionary, being an Englishman, which missionary he saith I am, and that it will be necessary for me to go home in order to obtain it, which if I do, and apply to my Lord Chancellor, he doubts not of success; and he further adds, that Mr. Talbot received the same during his time. If you, good sir, know any thing of that affair, be pleased to communicate it to me and to intercede for leave for me to come home.

I am yours and the Venerable Society's very humble servant,

Thomas Standard."6

The following year he informs the Society, that the parishes of East and Westchester are in a peaceable and growing state.

As Church business was at this time transacted with town matters, we find the inhabitants electing a sexton for Eastchester. On April the 1st,

1755, it was resolved, "That Richard Stevens be appointed grave-digger for the town, for the year ensuing, and to dig a grown person's grave for six shillings and three shillings for children." On the 7th of April,

1756, the town appointed the same individual for grave-digger and sexton for the town.

In 1758, Mr Standard presented the bell to the church, which still summons the parishoners every Lord's day to the house of prayer, and by it,. "He being dead, yet speaketh."

At the commencement of this year, the aged missionary was called to mourn over the grave of an affectionate wife, who came to her death in