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

a Sro 'Rpt. TTenrv E. Duncan's Jubilee Sermon for 1851.

b New York v.SS. from Archives at Fulbam. vol. U, 132. (Hawk's). "In 1T2S, Mr. Delpech was schoolmaster at Eastchester.

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a terrible manner, as appears from the following extract taken from the New York Post Boy, of February 6th, 1758: --

" We have the following most shocking and melancholy account from Eastchester, viz.: -- That on Friday morning the 27th of January, Mrs. Mary Standard, aged about seventy years, wife of the Rev. Dr. Thomas Standard, of this place, was found dead on the chimney-hearth of one of the apartments in the house, having her head, the chief parts of both her breasts, with her left arm and shoulder entirely burnt to cinders. It appears that the unfortunate old gentleman and his more unfortunate old lady, had, upon some necessary occasion the evening before, agreed to lay separate; and the Doctor taking his leave, went to bed, leaving his wife sitting before the fire, where, it is imagined, the poor old gentlewoman must either have been seized with a fit, or in rising from her chair, had fallen into the fire, and being undoubtedly rendered unable to move herself, she became the most moving spectacle imaginable to the most affectionate and tender husband, who first discovered her in the morning."