He also was the leading man in founding the parishes of Westchester East Chester, and Rye, in the County of Westchester to all of which he contributed his efforts and his means. His Manor of Scarsdale and Mamaroneck formed one of the precincts of the Parish of Rye,-

1 On the 2d of December, 1708, at the rerinest of Gilbert and his brothers, these arms were confirmed, with the change of the shield from argent to ermine, by the Herald's College of England.

2 See ante p. 99 for the facts of the establishment of the Church of England and its parishes in Westchester County.

of which he was elected by the inhabitants a warden and vestryman. And from it he and the Rector of Rye, the Rev. George Muirson, went forth upon those Missionary tours which first brought the knowledge of the Church of England into the then benighted Colony of Connecticut, of which he has left us reports so full that to them friends and foes have gone for the most authentic account of men and affaire at that day in that Colony. So strong was the opposition and savage the threats, that he always went fully armed to defend both Muirson and himself

In consequence of the death of all his children except Ann, Mrs. de Lancey and Martha, Mrs. Johnston, his entire estate, real and personal, descended to those ladies in equal shares. By Indentures of lease and release dated the 1" and 4"' days of July 1738 Lewis Johnston and Martha his wife conveyed her undivided half part of her Father's estate to Andrew Johnston a relative of her husband. And he by deed dated July 7"" 1738 reconveyed it to Lewis Johnston and his heirs in fee. This was for the easier management only.