Now this act conferred on trustees the right, " Lawfully, to have, hold, use, exercise and enjoy all and singular the churches, meeting houses, parsonages, burying places and lands, thereunto belonging, with

a Town Records. " In 1S08, the town granted one hundred dollars to be laid ont in fencing the burial ground of the church of Eastchester, and supervisors and overseers were directed to see it expended." " At the same time a vote was taken to alter the right of way through the burial ground to the verge thereof, aud that of the salt meadows belonging to the town."

HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.

the hereditaments and appurtenances heretofore by the said church occupied or enjoyed, &c." Whatever rights, therefore, the Church possessed prior to the Revolution, were still continued to her by the act of 1784.

Subsequently, however, to the joint action of the trustees "The church appointed three persons to enclose the land set off to the church by the town," as appears from the following resolutions : --

" At a meeting of the trustees held at the house of Win. Crawford, on the 12th of March, 1793, it was resolved as follows: -- Resolved, that Messrs. Steven Ward, Lancaster Underhill and Abraham Valentine, be, and they are hereby authorized and empowered to inclose the land belonging to the church in Eastchester, as laid out and ascertained by trustees chosen on the part of the town of Eastchester, and the trustees of the church, by a board fence on the whole front or north side thereof, composed of one board at the bottom and shtted above, and that the same be of the height of four feet and a half ; and the other parts of said laud to be inclosed by a post and rail fence, or such board fence as aforesaid, and that the said persons complete the same as conveniently as may be, <fcc."