It is voted and agreed upon that all who shall cart timber and stuff for the ineeting house shall have six shillings per diem, &c., done in behalf of the freeholders and commonality of the towii."'^

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b Acts of provincial assembly, N. Y., from 1691 to 1725, p. 23.

<^ The exact date when the Congregational meeting house was erected here is uncertain ; it must, however, have fallen into decay sometime prior to the erection of the Episcopal church.

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At a subsequent meeting' of the trustees held on the 26th of October, A. D. 1700, " It vvns voted that Richard Ward shall build the meeting house twenty-eight feet square, with a turret on the top, for forty pounds.''^-

The first rector of the parish was the Rev. John Bartow. " This individual (remarks Dr. Hawkins,) was appointed missionary on an annual salary of £50, in the year 1702. He arrived in New York in ten weeks, during the prevalence of a very fatal sickness, of which twenty persons, on an average, died every day for some months. He was fixed at Westchester by the governor, Lord Cornbury, but found the glebe of one hundred acres "all a wilderness," no part of which had ever been cultivated. He says, November 4th, 1702, " we have a small house built here for public worship of boards, but there is neither desk, pulpit, nor bell in it.'''^

Here follows the Bishop of London's'^ license to John Bartow, clerk.