I mean our missionaries may intermarry with the daughters of the Sachems, and other considerable Indians, and their progeny will forever be a certain cement between us and the Indians." Contempt for such insolencell' But as from the fireside of a Bartow, a Wetmore, a Smith, a Sackett, a Mead, a White, a Thomas, a Monroe went forth son or daughter, to be joined unto godly wife or husband, to perj>etuate the principles and heart wishes of their devoted fathere, date the commencement of influences for the highest welfare of the people, which in their eflects are seen as visibly in the post-Revolutionary periods as in the years before the strife. Nor is it amiss in this connection, when speaking of the usefulness of the Westchester clergy, to mention the moral support which they received from the efforts and assistance of prominent citizens of the county and province during these eighty years. Col. Caleb Heathcote here readily recurs to mind. He was

1 Smith's New York Carej Ed. p. 247. DoiiglBS*, Sam. A C, toI. ii. p. 13S, Buston Edit. 175:!.

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a conscientious and devout gentleman, whose convictions of trutii and duty were definite and decided. His pliilantliropy was broad and absorbing ; but his courage was ever moderated by liis prudence. " Artful," he was never. No good man ever misunderstood him, nor without regret withstood him. He was the friend of all that were striving for the public good, and it is not too much to say that the dissenting preacher as well as the Church of England priest had a kind and a wise word Irom him. Throughout this county the odor of his good work was spread, to the discomfort at the time of none, but the benefit of all. The attempt to change the color of a life, which has been preserved undimmed with one hundred and fifty years of cherished admiration, aflbrds little evidence of sagacity.