It Is asserted on the testimony of the late William W atson Weilman, of New Haven, for many years a vestryman of this parish, that Stephen Pardee, of South Salem, was once heard to declare, between the years 1S30 and ISafi, that " a Mr. Joseph B nedlct of the same piace had ni his possession the deed from James Brown to the church tor the Parsonage Lands in question. v it is not a little singular that thla same Stephen Pardee, on two or three occasions In 1849-1850, visited the present Alfred S. Hawley, Esq., for the purpose of astvi taming whether the Presbyterian title to these Parsonage Lands was valid or not. The Prot. Episcopal church was then re-organizing and there was much talk about erecting a new edifice and claiming the lower " Parsonage Lands."

c St. John's Parochial Register, Stamford, Conn.

HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.

yeoman, mortgaging two hundred acres of land lying on " the southeasterly side of the road leading from Bedford to Ridgefield, etc.," to Peter Jay, of Rye, for the sums of ^137. s 16. d 7.° Mr. Brown one of the principal founders and contributors towards the support of this parish died at his residence in Lower Salem, on Sunday the 19th of February, 1786, aged sixty-six,6 and is supposed to have been interred at South Salem. The old Brown mansion which was erected before 1750, and occupied the site of the present shed on the opposite side of the road facing the residence of Mr. Wakeman Wood, was removed sometime in November, 1836. In this house, Washington and staff took dinner on one occasion during the Revolutionary war." Tower Hill, one of the old family slaves who lived to a great age, but was at last frozen to death during the heavy Christmas snow storm of 181 1, lies buried on the spot named after him by the side of his ancient comrades Cato, Lucas and Dyar.