Sometime prior to 1753 a site was selected for a church edifice, on the undivided land of the Middle patent, not half a mile from the spot now occupied for this purpose, and was designated by the letter C inscribed on a rock. The letter is still legible, and the ancient deed is still in existence. "On the 10th of October, 1755, Jolm Hallock, of North Castle, for the sum of jQio, Conveyed to Joseph Fowter and Caleb Fowler, of the same place, a certain piece of land, lying

St. Stephen's Church, North Castle.

in North Castle, bounded as follows : Beginning on the east side of thehighway, that leads from the said John Hallock's house to Aaron Formans, Sen., at a certain neck which lyes at the northwest corner of the said Aaron Foreman's home lot, with the letter C cut thereon ; and from thence extending south 65 degrees, easterly, or thereabouts, along by the land of the said Aaron Forman's, as the fence now stands, three chains and fifty links (of Mr. Gunter's chain) to a stake stuck in the ground with stones about it ; from thence, running southeasterly 47 degrees, -2 chains, to a marked chestnut tree, standing on the edge of the brook, a little to the north end of the said John Hallock's new grist mill ; from thence, running west two chains and eighty links to the aforesaid road ; an 1 from thence, running something to the east of the north three chains and ten links to the first bound, containing three-quarters of an acre, " &CB