" Whereas the trustees and society of the Presbyterian church and congregation of the town of Salem, in the county of Westchester, have by their petition to the legislature, prayed for leave to sell, for the benefit of the said church and congregation, certain lands belonging to the said church and congregation, in the town of Salem aforesaid, thereupon : Be it enacted by the people of the state of New York, represented in senate and assembly, that full power, good right, and lawful authority shall be and hereby is granted to the trustees of the said church and congregation to sell, alien in fee, all right and title belonging to the said church and congregation, vested in them as trustees of and in all such lands, situate, lying and being in the town of Salem, in W^estchester county, as they from time to time may deem necessary for the purpose of procuring other lands on which a parsonage house may be more conveniently erected, and for erecting the same. Provided always that the lands so to be sold by virtue of this act shall not exceed the quantity of fifty acres. ^

Tliis church and congregation are in connection with the Bedford Presbytery.

LIST OF MINISTERS OF THE PRESBYTERIAN -CHURCH AT

SOUTH SALEM.

Instal or call. Ministers. Vacated hy.

19th May, 1752, Rev. Solomon Mead, Death.

a Religious Soc. Lib., A. p. 2. b Laws of N. Y. 1800, p. 47.

270 HISTORY OF THE

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