John Bartow, for the minister's rale in the year 1703, stating that he had paid Mr. Bartow the sum of seven pounds thirteen shillings, for his collecting.*

On the 23d of December, 1707, it was resolved to raise the sum of five pounds towards purchasing boards for Eastchester church. b

In 1703 Capt. John Drake and Edmund Ward were appointed to go to New York to ask concerning the settling the minister according to a warrant granted by General Heathcoate, for the good of the county.c

Upon the 20th of March, 1703, it was agreed that " Judge Drake, Moses Fowler, and Isaac Taylor should have full power to hire a man to repair ye meeting house in Eastchester, and in making a pulpit and pew seat, (reading desk) and further to sell and make other seats in the same as far as the boards that are already bought will go."'^ In 1713 the Rev. John Bartow contri- Jbuted £9 6s. 6d. towards rectifying the pews and seats in East and Westchester.e During the year 1728, the Rev. Thomas Standard (rector of Westchester) officiated here every other Sunday, and publicly catechised the children. This year there appear to have been fifty children, and thirty communicants.^ In 1745 Mr. Standard informs the society that the parishes of East and Westchester are in a thriving and growing state." The Rev. Mr. Milner, his successor in 1764, reported to the Propagation Society, " That the peopk of Eastchester have laid the foundation of a new church of stone, seventy-one feet by eighty-eight,