John Brundige and John Purdy are empowered to sell the frame intended for a parsonage house.
The same year the Rev. Thomas Denhara appears to have been minister here, for, June 15, a house lot is ordered for Mr. Thomas Denham, and on November the 22d, we find the same individual admitted an inhabitant of the town of Rye. June 21 1G78, Mr. Thomas Denham is to have all the grass on the highway at the old town, besides an equal share with the proprietors of Poningoe neck.
March 5ih, 1679. 50 poles of land lying before his door, toward the brook, are granted to Mr. Thomas Denham, and the ensuing year he is to have all the grass in the highway at the first of the old town lots ; also £30 allowed for his maintenance. The general court of Connecticut, October 14ih, 16S0, ordered that thirty pounds per annum agreed by Rye to be paid to the minister, Mr. Denham, shall be gathered by the constable with the country rate, in the same specie and prices as the country rate, and by him to be paid to the said minister.'' A.D. 16S2, the town confirms the sum of £30 as salary to Mr. Denham, and orders the same to be paid in provisions.
The historian Trumbull informs us that about the year 1688,
the Rev. John Bowers removed from Derby and settled at Rye.<=
April 22d, 1690, Captain Horton, Joseph Theall, and John
Hart. Col. Rec. vol. iii. 59. b Hart. Col. Rec. vol. iii. CiO.