Provided always that the lands so to be sold by virtue of this act shall not exceed the quantity of fifty acres.*

The following sales were made under this act as appears by the minutes of the Trustees :

"The said Board of Trustees being by law of this State authorized to sell a quantity of land on the old Parsonage not to exceed fifty acres have sold the several quantity's of laud to the persons named aud for the sums annexed to their names :

ACRES.

BOODS.

RODS

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" John Bouton, Meadow...

$ 1 489 |

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The following minutes appear principally to relate to the purchase of what is called the old Parsonage farm. " At a meeting of Gould Bouton. James Conklin, Jacob Hayt, Giles Malory, James Reynolds and Abijah Gilbert, trustees of the Presbyterian Society held at the house of

a Laws of New York, 1S00, p,47. 6 Laws of New York, 1800, p. 4T.

c Rec. of Trustees of Presbyterian Church, South Salem, vol. L, p. 2L

448 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.

Abijah Gilbert on the 24th day of November, 1801, for the purpose of naming and stating the proceedings and accounts relative to the sales and purchase of lands for the use and benefit of the society which is as follows: On the 27th of March, 1800, Jacob Hayt, in behalf of the Society, made a contract with George Codwise for a tract of land which formerly belonged to Thaddeus Rockwell, and engaged to pay the sum of one hundred and eighty-two dollars and sixty cents with interest, taking the premises with the incumbrance of two mortgages given on the same by Thaddeus Rockwell to Governor John Jay the other to Sir James Jay. The Board of Trustees agreed with the said Rockwell to pay twenty-two dollars and fifty cents per acre for the land which on survey appeared to be fifty-six acres and one rood, and in a settlement between the said Board and said Rockwell he agreed to pay eighteen dollars towards the extraordinary expense of procuring a deed from Codwise and settling the mortgages and for settling the accounts for pasture and other dealings that were agreed to ballance both accounts, that a deed executed by said Codwise bearing date the 10th of May, 1S01, conveying the same land to Abijah Gilbert in trust, the said board of trustees ordered said Gilbert to convey by deed for the use of the society the 2nd day of June, 1801, to contain thirty-three acres and one rood of land ; also to convey to Aaron Keeler twenty-three acres which was sold to said Keeler for twenty-three dollars and fifty cents per acre; the said board for making payment agreeable to contract borrowed, in the month of April, 1800, of Michael Lockwood, five hundred dollars and collected money belonging to the society for lands sold -- which appears by the accounts herein stated, and that the principal with the interest from April last is due to the said Lockwood, and that there is in the hands of the Trustees to make the payment the following sums :