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

It was during Mr. Milner's ministry that the foundation of the present church was laid. In a letter to the secretary of the Venerable Society, dated Westchester, 1761, he says: --

a Their remains were found in a srood state of preservation, trat crumbled to pieces on exposure to the atmosphere. Tradition says, that Mr. Standard (rave certain lands to the church on condition that the remains ol himself and wife should in- removed whenever the new edifice should he built.

b Town Records of Eastchester.

THE TOWN OF EAST CHESTER.

" The people of Eastchester have laid the foundation of a new church of stone, seventy-one feet by eighty-eight, in the room of a small decayed wooden building erected in the infancy of the settlement."

In the year 1766, Mark Christian was appointed sexton for the town, an office which he subsequently held under the trustees of the church. Upon the 1st of April, of that year, he was directed, "To take care of the Green, to see that hogs don't dig, and to dig graves, and to find a good bier."a