The most prominent object upon entering Rye from the west, is the Presbyterian church with its spiie, a neat wooden edifice, erected at the private cost of the late Ebenezer Clark, Esq., and dedicated June the 28th, 1842.^ It occupies the site of the old church erected A. D. 1793.° The latter was dedicated by the Rev. Isaac Lewis, D. D., of Greenwich, Connecticut, who officiated here for some time, in connection with his own charge. To the Presbyterian church at Rye, is attached the chapel at Port Chester. Service is now regularly held every Sunday morning at Port Chester, and in the afternoon at Rye.

The first Presbyterian church in this town, is said to have been erected upon Pulpit plain, the property of Mr. Billah Theale.

In 1729, the proprietors of the undivided land lying in Rye, between Byram and Blind brook streams, within a certain patent that was granted unto Daniel Purdy, son of John Purdy deceased, Samuel Brown, Benjamin Brown and others, grant unto the Presbijterian Society for ever, one-half acre of land lying on the Plains near unto the house that was the late deceased Thomas Merritt's jun., (fee. In witness whereof, we have hereunto set our hands, the 15th day of May, in the second year of the reign of King George the second, A. D. IT29A Robert Bloomer, Cfiarles Leish, Thomas Brown,

Daniel Purdy, sen., James Roosevelt, Jonathan Brown, Joseph Kniffen, Hachaliah Brown, Thomas Purdy,

a John Purdy was residing at Fairfield, in 1658.