The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester (1881 revised edition, Vol. I)
minister, the whole Congregation, excepting two or three families, conformed to the Church of England, and kept from that time possession of the church and land until my coming here, when they made appear a deed, given by the sou of Jacob Lcisler, in which the two opponents to the conformity of the Church are made trustees of the land, and Lord Pell's deed altered in such a manner, for a French church who shall perform Divine service according to the French Calvinists of the old French, and that deed bearing date four months alter the conformity of our Church ; and upon such title, the Calviuists at my arrival here debauched our tenants, who took leases under them, and by that keep us out of our possession. Upon which the churchwardens applied to a lawyer for advice ; and upon mature consideration it was found that John Pell who had given the laud for a French church, erected or to be erected by the inhabitants of the said tract of land or their assigns, had never divested himself of the legal right of the said 100 acres of land. These considered, our churchwardens applied to the Executors of the heir at law of said Pell, who have released all the right of Pell to the church for £100, the executors having power to sell by the will of the present heir's father. With this title, joined to fifty-three years possession, our churchwardens did serve three ejectments upon the three tenants, and the Calvinists entered defendants, and on the 15th day of September last we had a trial at the Supreme Court, when the Jury brought their verdict in favor of our Church, upon which the attorneys of the Calvinists' party offered a bill of exception : so that we must wait the issue of said bill at the Supreme Court at New York, to be held the 18th day of this hist.