In the possession of this family is a curious copy of the Baskett Bible containing the Prayer Book of the Church of England and the Psalms in metre, entitled the New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ newly transcribed out of the original Greek and with the former translations diligently compared and revised by His Majesty's special command appointed to be read in churches j Oxford, printed by Thomas Baskett, printer to the University, MDCCXLIX. On the inside is this memorandum : " Jeremiah Keeler was married to Huldah, April, 1 7S8. Took this holy Book out of the estate of his deceased father, the 16th of April, 1799." There is but little doubt that this is the very Bible and Prayer Book combined which was presented by the Venerable Propagation Society to the church of Lower Salem in 1 7 7 1 .

At an early period, perhaps, before the erection of the church in 177 1, James Brown made a liberal benefaction of one hundred acres of land, within the Patent of Lower Salem, for the endowment of the Church of England as established by law. These Glebe lands are claimed to be what is still denominated, " The Lower Parsonage Lands" lying between the two roads, one leading from Ridgefield to Bedford, the other from Ridgefield to South Salem ; which lands," as we have already seen, were surreptitiously conveyed by the so-called proprietors of the " Lower released ten miles of the Oblong or Equivalent lands, yet undivided " (on the 23d of December, 1751,) "for the use and improvement of the first Presbyterian or Independent minister that should be settled and ordained in the town of Salem." Now the truth is that James Brown