On the 26th of December, 1699, it was resolved, at a public meeting b.eld in Eastchester, " to haste and erect the said meeting house, and that it shall be finished at or before the 3lst of Ma}^ in the year of our Lord 1700, and in case the said work be not finished, that then John Drake and Jeremiah Fowler shall set men at work and finish the said work on the town account.

The same year a lot was provided for the minister, and £30 appropriated annually for his salary, which sum was ordered to be raised upon all rateable estates. Mr. Henry Fowler at the same time was directed to " write a letter unto Mr. Morgan containing our proceedings."

Upon the 14th of October, 1700, we find Mr. Henry Fowler, sen. authorized by the inhabitants to proceed to New York to petition the General Assembly for the calling and settling a minister with ourselves, and that we may be freed from Westchester in the ministry."

12th of King William, lil. A. D. 1700, occurs an act of the General Assembly, declaring that

" Whereas since the passing of said act, (that of 1699,) it has been found inconvenient, to the great discouragement of religion and the public worship of God, for the inhabitants of Eastchester to travel to Westchester aforesaid at the preaching of God's word. Wherefore the said inhabitants and freeholders of the town of Eastchester have by their humble petition to the House of Representatives, now convened in General Assembly, most humbly prayed that it might be declared and enacted, and it was enacted, 1st. That the said town of Eastchester in the county of Westchester be henceforth and for ever here-