I applied last winter to his Excellency, Sir Henry Moore, for a brief in their favor, but the petition was rejected."

In 1777, he wrote to the Society: -- "With regard to my own mission, I can only say, that it is utterly ruined." Services had been suspended for some time in Eastchester, and the congregation dispersed. At this period the church was used as an hospital, and subsequently served the purpose of a court house. The following item occurs in the records of the Court of Common Pleas: --

"At a Court of Oyer and Terminer and General Jail Delivery, held at the church at Eastchester, in and for the County of Westchester, on Tuesday, the 12th day of June, in the year of our Lord, 1787, present, the Honourable Richard Morrris, Esq., Chief-Justice of the Supreme Court of Judicature, for the State of New York, Stephen Ward, Jonathan J. Tompkins, Ebenezer S. Burling and Benjamin Stevenson, Justices of Oyer and Terminer and General Jail Delivery for the County of Westchester, &c."

St. Paul's church, Eastchester, was first incorporated on the 12th of March, 1787, in pursuance of an Act of the Legislature, entitled: --

a At a town meeting held 7th of April, 1767, "It was agreed that Dr. Wright should not be molested In his hurrying yard ou said Green in said town."-- Town Records.

HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.

AN ACT TO ENABLE ALL THE RELIGIOUS DENOMINATIONS IN THE STATE, TO APPOINT TRUSTEES WHO SHALL BE A BODY CORPORATE FOR THE PURPOSE OF TAKING CARE OF THE TEMPORALITIES OF THEIR RESPECTIVE CONGREGATIONS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES THEREIN MENTIONED.