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,

* Westchester Rec. b Ibid.

« Hawkins Hist. Notices of the Church of England, 276. MS. Letters in the Lambeth collection, England, vol. xx. 109. d Town Rec.

•Ibid. • • • ■'-■-. -_^. j\

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in the room of a small decayed wooden building erected in the infancy of the settlement." Throughout the years 1766, 7, and 8> the Rev. Samuel Seabury (afterwards bishop of Connecticut,) officiated in Eastchester.

Occasionally the French clergy of New Rochelle must have performed services in this parish, as we find the following entry on the records of Trinity Church, New Rochelle.

'• Cet anjourd'hui le 5 mars, 173f , baptise a East Chester, William Fowler, fils de Joseph Fowler et de Madame Sarah sa femme age d'environ six mois, et presente au saint bapteme par Ezekiel H.ilstead, son oncle et par Sarah Fowler, sa mere, Parrain et Marraime. P. Stouppe."

The parsonage formerly stood on the Alstine property, directly north of the present church. Here the Rev. Thomas Standard resided for many years.^