Rent of the two tenements, £0 4s &d Rent of laud occupied by Mr. Mead, £5 18s Together with three sums of money loaned, the principal sums amount to £85 s9 <£8. The annual income being the lawful interest which is five pound, one shilling and seven pence per annum.

Principal £85 9s Id Interest, £5 Is Id In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands this 9th day of May, 1798.

Abi.iah Gilbert, ^ (Jacob H ait,

Exoch Mead, V J Gould Boi ton,

James Conklln, ) (Giles Moleey."

Acknowledged before Nathan Rockwell, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, 9th of May, 1798.*

In 1800, Judge Abijah Gilbert/ an elder of the Presbyterian Society at Salem, and a member of the State Legislature, obtained an act audiorizing the Trustees to sell and dispose of certain lands for the benefit of the church and congregation.

In Assembly, January 30th, 1880. A petition of the trustees and members of the Presbyterian church and Congregation of the town of Salem in the County of Westchester, praying that a law may be passed empowering the said Trustees to sell a part of the lands, belonging to the said congregation, for the benefit of the said church, was read and referred to the members attending this house from the County of Westchester.c

In Assembly, Feb. 5th, 1800. Mr. A. Smith from the committee to whom was referred the petition of the Trustees and members of the church and Congregation of Salem, in the County of Westchester, reported that they have maturely considered the facts stated in the said petition and believe them to be true and are therefore of opinion that the prayer of the petition ought to be granted; that the committee have prepared a bill for that purpose, and have directed him to ask for leave to bring in the same ; leave being granted, Mr.