Some of the most active members of the mission having joined the army, (at the commencement of hostihties,) it was found absolutely necessary to dispose of the building to satisfy the claims of the contractor, Mr. Benjamin Chapman. This individual subsequently purchased it and converted the same into a tavern. For many years it was known as the Churcli tavern. Mr. Chapman afterwards sold the property, with the dwelling house, to J. L. Morehouse, from whom it passed to the present Mr. Jeremiah Keeler. In 1796, Mr. Keeler dismantled the building and removed the materials.^-

On the 19th of May, 1811, the Episcopal church was incorporated under the style of " the church-wardens and vestrymen of the corporation of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Salem." At a previous meeting of the members of this church, held on the 15th of October, 1810, the following officers had been duly elected for the year ensuing, viz: Angus McCarroll, William Sherwood, church-wardens; Henry Hoyt, Gould Bouton, jim., Jesse Jarvis, Samuel B. Isaacs, Samuel Ambler, Joseph Nash, Absolom Holmes and James Church, vestrymen. b

In 1815 this church was visited by the Rev. Theodosius Bartow of New Rochelle, and the same year Mr. George Weller was

» Communicated by Henry Keeler and others, b Religious Soc- Lib. A.

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licensed as a lay reader for the same.^ Occasional services were also performed here by the Rev. Elias Cooper of Yonkers, the Rev. Samuel Haskell of Rye, and the Rev. John McVickarj <fcc. The first delegate from this church to the diocesan convention, in 1811, was Mr. Samuel B. Isaacs.