This was done.

The first meeting-house built in Westchester County, existed as early as 1723. In that year mention is made of "The Quaker meeting-house in Westchester village." 6 A monthly meeting was appointed by the yearly meeting of Friends, at Flushing, Long Island, to be held at Westchester, New York, on the ninth day of fourth month, 1725. Not long after we hear of occasional meetings being held at Mamaroneck and Rye, in private houses. One on the 13th of May, 1726, to be held every other month at the house of Jas. Mott; and another, 1727, was at Robert Sneathings/

" In 1742, on the ' eleventh day of first month, (January.) the monthly meeting was transferred from Mamaroneck, to the ' Meeting- House in Rye Woods' This meeting was now held at three places on the main ; alternately at Westchester, Mamaroneck, and Purchase ; and subject to it, meetings had by this time been established at New Milford, the Oblong, and Nine Partners f and in 1 744, on the eighth day of ninth month, (September,) a proposition was made to establish a quarterly meeting 'on this side,' i. e., on the main. Accordingly, the yearly meeting, still held at Flushing, on the thirteenth of fourth month, (April,) 1745, appointed a quarterly meeting to be held at the Purchase."*

" In 1745, on the eleventh day of fifth month, the meeting appointed Thomas Franklin, ' to get seats to be made rising in the upper part of