"At a public town meeting called by order of the inhabitants, Oct. 4th, 1700, the said inhabitants directed Mr. Henry Fowler and Richard ^hute, (with the rest of the intended church,) to write nnto the reverend ministers in New England concerning the ordination ; they having the assistance of the Rev. Mr. Morgan. Also, that Mr. John Pinckney, Henry Fowler and Richard Shute, shall write unto his Excellency for his approbation, that he will be pleased to induct our minister the Rev. Joseph Moigan ; at the same time Joseph Drake and John Shute, were chosen to hire a man to build a pulpit on the town account.'' " Upon the 3d of April, 1702, John Drake and Thomas Pinckney were authorized to agree with a carpenter to make a pulpit, and set up the gallery and repair the window shutters, &c."

John Tompkins, jun., was also chosen " to beat the drum constantly every Lord's day if occasion require, and at other times when it is needful, and to keep the drum in rej^air, and the said inhabitants do promise to pay him therefor 9 pence a piece every one."

In a summary account of the state of the church in the province of New York, as it was laid before the clergy, convened October 5th, 1704, at New York, by the appointment of his Excellency Edw^ard Lord Viscount Cornbury and Colonel Francis Nicholson, it was stated, that "There is one independent congregation at Eastchester whose minister designs to leave tljere, whose congregation upon his departure are resolved to join with the church."^