It was resolved, " that the laws of the country are not superseded by the military code in the presence of the army," "and that a letter be written to General Washington, requesting that the officer directing the burning of the courthouse and dwelling liouses at the White Plains be delivered to this committee or the Convention of the state, in order to his being tried by the laws of this state, and, if guilty, punished thereby.''^

The Episcopal Church is very pleasantly situated, a little east of the court-house, and being elevated above the road, commands a fine view of the valley and hills to the north-east. It is built of

a Journal of N. Y. Prov. Congress, vol. i. 72.1. b Journal of N. Y. Prov. Con. vol. i. 729.

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wood, with a handsome tower and vestry room in the rear. The former contains a bell weighing 1135 pounds. This parish was first organized by the exertions of the Rev. Lewis P. Bayard, in 1824, who occasionally performed services here. Upon the 22d of March, 1824, the church was incorporated by the title of "Grace (Protestant Episcopal) Church, White Plains," in remembrance of Grace C. hurch, Rye, whose ministers had officiated here at intervals from 1762 to 1816,^ Richard Jarvis and Alan McDonald, wardens ; William Purdy, John Horton, Gilbert Hatfield, James Dick, Alexander Fowler, Joshna Horton, William Bulkley, and James Merritt, vestrymen." The present church edifice was consecrated on the 26ih of June, 1826, by the Right Rev. J. H. Hobart. In 1833 Trinity Church, New York, appropriated to this parish the sum of $750.