Ebenezer Piinderson.a In 1763 this gentleman informs the Society " that since writing his last letter, besides two-thirds of the Sundays at Rye, and the other third at White Plains, North Castle and Bedford, he had been twice to Crampond and once to Croton, he had also baptized nineteen adults and ninety-two children."

Mr. Punderson died in 1764. The following inscription is taken from his monument in the grave yard.

; Sacred to the Memory . . '

of the , ' Rev. Ebenezer Punderson,

late Missionary to the Rev. Society for

Propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts,

who died 22d Sept., A. D. 1764,

being 60 years of age.

"With pure religion was his spirit fraught,

Practiced himself what he to others taught."

Upon the 19th day of December, 1764, Grace Church, Rye, received the following charter from King George the Third.

CHARTER OF GRACE CHURCH, RYE.

George the Third, by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, To all to whom these presents shall conne, greeting : Whereas our loving subjects, Peter Jay, Elisha Budd, Christopher Isinghart, Timothy Wetmore, Caleb Purdy, Joshua Purdy, John Guion, Joseph Purdy, Gilbert Willet, John Carhart, Thomas Sawyer, Gilbert Brundige, John Thomas, William Sutton, Anthony Miller and John Adee, inhabitants of the parish of Rye, in the county of Westchester, in our Province of New York, in communion of the Church of England as by law established, by their humble petition presented on the sixteenth day of November last past, to our trusty and well beloved Cadwallader Colden, Esquire, our Lieu-