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The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester (1881 revised edition, Vol. I)

Bolton, Robert Jr. The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester, from its First Settlement to the Present Time, Vol. I. New York: Charles F. Roper, 1881. Revised posthumous edition. 251 words

Whereas, we the subscribers, by a vote and order of the town meeting of the inhabitants of the town of Eastchester, in the County of Westchester, held in said town on the 3d day of April, 1792, were authorized and empowered to affix and ascertain, in conjunction with the Trustees of the Episcopal Church in East- Chester aforesaid, the boundaries and quantity of land necessary and convenient for said church, and for a burial place adjacent to the same.

And wliereas, we, the said subscribers, having on the day of the date hereof, met with a majority of the trustees of said church, and having proceeded to view the premises, and in order to furnish the said church with sufficiency of ground for a yard and burial ground, and also to accommodate the remainder of what is called the Green, to public occasion, Do, in pursuance of the trust reposed in us by the vote or order above mentioned, hereby certify, that the said trustees of the church aforesaid shall, and of right ought to possess the ground comprehended within the limits following, for the use and purposes aforesaid, that is to say : -- Beginning at the distance of 34£ feet directly north-east, from the north-east corner of said church, from thence extending in a straight line westerly, observing the distance of 28 feet from the front of said church, until it comes to the edge of the bank between the upland and salt marsh, thence southerly by the said