No doubt these so-called proprietors contended in opposition to Brown and Smith, that they had a right of freehold vested in the Lower Oblong, given them by Connecticut in years past, which no power could possibly deprive them of ; but the settlement of the boundary question in 1731, vested the whole Oblong in the Crown. This they had themselves tacitly admitted in accepting the East Patent from the Crown the very same year, and certainly they could never show any grant from the Crown for the undivided lands of the Oblong. It is a little curious that thirteen out of the twenty signers of the surreptitious deed to the Presbyterian Society in 1751, were grantees under the East Patent in 1731. There can be no doubt whatever, that they attempted to convey away property that did not belong to them ; besides which, these lands were undivided and they could not legally dispose of their claim, even if they had any, until a division of them was made. Here, then, we see the intention of the noble donor sadly prevented, as the gift has never been realized by the Parish -- more than one hundred years have now passed since the land was given ; yet, tradition has preserved it inviolably. The Church was re-organized in 18 10, in hopes of recovering it ; and that noble band of Churchmen consisting of Augustus Mc- Carroll/' William Sherwood, Henry Hoyt, Gould Bouton, Jesse Jarvis, Samuel Brown Isaacs, Samuel Amber, Joseph Nash, Absalom Holmesc and James Church, who were constantly in the habit of discussing their right to the property and probability of recovering it, while attending on the sen-ices at the mother Church of North Salem, have all passed away to their rest.rf Still the trust remains to be guarded by their successors ; who should never forget what they owe to the resolute men who planted and watered the Church in the Colonies, and still clung to her after the close of the Revolution, looking in sure faith to Almighty God for the increase.