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."

The Rev. Thomas Standard died at Eastchester, in January, 1760, at the advanced age of nearly eighty, and was buried by the side of his wife, beneath the chancel of the old church on the green. In 18 18, their bodies were removed by order of the Vestry and interred under the communion table of the present ediffce.a

The Rev. John Milner succeeded Mr. Standard, under the auspices of the Venerable Propagation Society, and was inducted rector of the parish church of Westchester, including the several districts of Westchester, Eastchester, Yonkers and the Manor of Pelham, on the 12th of June, 1761.

The following extracts from the town records relates to the parsonage lot described in 1695, as "Lying upon the Green in Eastchester:" --

"At a public town meeting called by the justices of the town to inquire into several encroachments on lands in said town, held in Eastchester, on Monday the 30th day of August, 1762, it was agreed that these men (Jonathan Fowler, Charles Vincent, John Fowler and Joseph Drake,) should regulate the parsonage, and to take a bond of Isaac Lawrence of indemnity, to deliver up the same to the town again at his decease."6