Although nurtured in the bosom of the Presbyterian denomination, he became convinced, after a faithful investigation of the subject of Episcopacy, aided by Divine light and guidance in prayer, and diligent and humble examination of the Scriptures, diat it was his duty to connect himself with the Episcopal Church as one " divine in its institution, apostolic in its ministry, pure and evano The purchasers of the old glebe, (Elijah Ward ami others,) having paid off their bonds to the Church, and the monies being deposited in the rector s hand, the iatter, to secure the same to the Church, mortgaged a tract of laud of about sixty acres, situated in the town of New Kochelle, which was foreclosed as above ; this land has since been sold by an order of the conn of Chaucery, and is now occupied by Benjamin Le Fevre, Capt. Oliver Cutts, the late John G. Horton, Francis Baptist, Peter Sherwood, the la'.e Leonard P. Miller, Esq., the public school, Ac

HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.

gelical in its doctrines, authoratative in its sacraments, and Scriptural and primitive in its discipline and worship."

During the prosecution of his theological studies Mr. Bayard resided at Princeton, N. J., and was admitted a candidate for Holy Orders on the 2d of May, 1811, in the Diocese of New Jersey; he received Deacon's Orders, August 2d, 1812. In May, 1813, he was called to the rectorship of Trinity church, Newark, N. J., which charge he resigned in 1820; after this, he officiated for some time in the neighboring parish of Eastchester. In connection with his pastoral charge, he thought it his duty to be engaged in the avocation of the in-