At a subsequent meeting of the trustees "cC16 was ordered to be raised to finish the seats of the church, secure the frame, and to pay off the arrears, the seats to be made with backs, including the collector's fees ; and Underhill Barnes and Thomas Hunt are appointed overseers of the work, and to employ workmen. It was further ordered that a warrant be issued for raising said money according to law, to be paid at ye same time with the county lax. Also ordered, the overseers now chosen require Henry Gillaim to compleat his work, especially tlie front of the gallenj, and to make it secure and substantial.''^

a Westchester Rec. vol. ix. 212. b Westchester Rec. vol. ix. 206.

* Westchester Rec. vol. ix. 213.

21.2i - --, HISTORY OF 'rllE •,

In 1743, the Rev. Thomas Standard acquaints the Society " that notwithstanding the country su-armed with vagrant preachers called Neiv lAghts he had a more numerous congregation than usual the Lord's day preceding."

Upon the earnest petition of the churchwardens and vestrymen of St. Peter's Church, Westchester, the Propagation Society appointed Mr. Basil Barlow schoolmaster of the parish. The king's commissary transmitted the following account of this individual. "That he is son to the Rev. John Bartow, late the Society's worthy missionary there. He is a person of good temper, sober, and pious, and well aifected to the present government, conformable to the doctrine and discipline of the church, and exceedingly well qualified for the instruction of the young."