By the governor's orders it appears to have been dismantled the following year, for on the 4th of Sept. 1676, we find the inhabitants agreeing " to employ a man to tear or to take down the stockadoes according to our governor's order ; also on the same occasion, Richard Shute was chosen to go to Westchester to hire or make an agreement with John Hudson to carry the stockadoes of Eastchester down to Yorke."<i

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t> This gentleman who has for nearly half a century filled the office of senior warden of St. Paul'" Church, Eastchester, is a descendant of Henry Fowler, one of the original patentees of this town,

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Near the fort, was located the general fold, into which all cattle were driven nightly for protection. The fold appears to have been constructed sometime prior to 1684.

The first school-house was erected in 1683, for at a public meeting of the inhabitants, held on the 15th of October of that year, it was ordered, " that a school-house be erected upon a site between the property of Richard Shule and William Haiden, and encouragement given to Mr. Morgan Jones to become tlie school-master."*

This building occupied the site of the present village schoolhouse. Thus the ground has been used for this purpose one hundred and sixty- four years.

In 1685 it was agreed to build a town house, fourteen feet long and twelve feet broad, and to set it up by the highway side between the houses of Captain William Haiden and Richard Shute.