It took the people of East Chester thirty years before they were determined to build, although they had asked permission twenty years before, and after this resolve near seven years elapsed before the Meeting-house was ready for use. Bedford, which was settled about 1680, and which that very year expressed its determination to build, had a place of worship within a few years. The following is supposed to be the order in which the early church edifices of the county were erected. The date of the first Quaker Meeting-house at West Chester is certainly much earlier than 1729, for Dr. Standard in that year speaks of it as then in use.* Mr. Bolton seems to mark it out as 1747, but perhaps he refers to a second edifice.^
> Stone's "Hist, of New York," p. 188.
2 Baii-d'8 " Bye," p. 78.
3 Bolton's " History of Westchester County,'
vol. i. p. .546.
1680-1704. 16!)-2-'J3.
icy9.
17110.
170(1.
1706-8.
1708.
1710.
172 J.
1727 «
1729.*
17:12-40.
1737.
1730-10.
1739.
1747.
175-2.
1752.*
1761.
1763.
1764.
1764.
1766.
1770.
. , Westcliester Imlepeiidents.
. i Westcliester Friends.
I Bedford I'resliyterians.
iXew liochelle Hugueuots.
.Mount I'leasant Keformed Dutch.
East Chester Independents.
Westcliester Independents.
Fordham Reformed Dutcli.
Rye Church of England.
Xew Rochelle Church of England.
Xew Rochelle ReforniedProtestant.
White Plains I*resbyterian8.
Rye Presbyterians.
Cortlandt Reformed Dutch.
Yorlitown ' Presby terians.
Harrison Friends.
Marmauwick Friends.
Westchester Friends.
Yonkei-s Church of England.
South Salem Presbyterians.
Xew Castle Church of England.
Xorth Salem Church of England.