The Church now manages her own affairs, her power and right to do so, being fully recognized by the town ; for upon the 3d of April, 1787, prior to the incorporation, it was resolved at town meeting, " To erect a school house, and to set it on the Green near where the stocks formerly stood " -- but this resolution was never carried into effect, because the Church had been incorporated, and consequently claimed the Green exclusively as her own. The very fact, too, that the old church erected since 1692, once stood upon the Green is conclusive evidence that this property is still vested in the Church. In 1790, therefore, it was ordered by the town, "To build the school house on town ground, by Charles Guion's, where it formerly stood." Again, at a town meeting in 1792, it was declared, "That the

a " The trustees were directed to make an annual report between the first of January and the llr-i of April, to the Chancellor, or one of the Justices of the Supreme Court, or any of the Judges of the Ooorl of Common Pleas, Ac." Laws of N. Y., 177s to ITS", Greenlears edilitii, vol. 1, cha|). xviii, 71.

THE TOWN OF EAST CHESTER.

"burial ground shall, and of right, ought to belong to the Church." After the election of the Trustees, too, the sexton was always appointed by the Church.

On the ioth of December, 1787, an agreement was entered into between a majority of the Trustees of the Episcopal Church in Eastchester, of the one part, and William Heskins, carpenter, of the other part, wherein the latter agreed " To erect and build a pulpit, reading desk, and clerk's seat in the said church, according to the dimensions in the plan by him exhibited to the said Trustees, and the form of the pulpit in the church at Yonkers, &c."