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. The crime of violating or alienating to other purposes what has been once appropriated or consecrated to the service of God's

a It is quite clear from the will of James Brown, Senior, in 1766, that the Patent adjoined the south side of the road leading from Itidgetleld to Bedford. A fence running almost due north from the late Milo Webster's house, (close to the road leading from South Salem to Kidgeiield,) and so across through the swamp near to the residence of Wakeman li. Wood, (on the road between Bedford toRidgeaeld,) is said to have been the east line of Jamea Brown's lands.

* Augustus McCarroll or McOaul, was a strong Scottish Churchman, Ills son, EnnU, left a son, Stephen, and a daughter, Sarah, the widow of David Farrington. c Holmes lived near Lake Wacabnc