" 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

a Baird's History of Rye.

6 ' Entering of tile Highways,' a book of record In the County Clerk's office, White Plains, pair.' .,

c Rye Records, Vol. B. pp. 227-30.

d A meeting was commenced at North Castle in 1764, and was held once a fortnight in winter. The North Castle meeting-honse was built in 179S, in about 1S75 it was given up and sold.

« Records of the Society in Harrison. Baud's Hist of Rye, p. 354. An addition was made to Friends of Meeting-House, at (he Purchase In 17C0.

HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.

the Meeting-House at ye Purchase.' "a It was here that the wounded soldiers were brought, immediately after the Battle of White Plains, on the 28th of October, 1776, and laid out on the floor or lower seats. It was probably for the double purpose of protecting the wounded, and securing the communications of the army at the White Plains ; in that direction, Major Brigadier General Samuel Holden Parson, had a post near the head of Rye Pond, October 29, 1776.