The former seem to have been selected from among the laity with great caution and care. . . Some of these were men of liberal education. . . . Intellectual was not then, to the extent that it is now, separated from religious improvement, but both went hand in hand throughout the iceel:."^ What the wise Rector of Trinity says of the schoolmasters of his parish was equally true of those whose work was in Westchester County. In answer to the question of the society, " Have you in your parish any public school for the instruction of youth ? If you have, is it endowed, and who is the master?" the Rev. John Bartow answers: We have a public school in Westchester, of which Mr. Forster is the society's schoolmaster, and we have private schools in other places -- no endowment. Some family of the name of Pelham that are adjacent come to East Chester Church." -

The following are the names of some of the schoolmasters of the county in colonial times : Delpech, Forster, Cleator, Collier, Dwight, Purdy, Timothy Wetmore, James Wetmore, Basil Bartow, Thomas

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-New York history from archives at Fulham, Vol. 1, 635.

Huddlestone, John Carhart, William Sturgeon, John Rand, John Avery, Daniel Clarke, Charles Glover, Nathiiniel Seabury, George Young, Mr. Gott.

The presence of these educated men in the community as levers of usefulness was not a little aided by the circulation among the people of books of sterling merit on theology and practical religion and smaller essays treating on subjects of passing interest.' Some of these treatises were controversial, which characteristic in those days was not at all incongenial; many of them would be regarded in our times as very dryly written, but not so by those early settlers. Among the volumes known to be furnished by the Society, were Beveridge's several works, Lewis' Catechisms, Taylor's Holy Living and Dying, The Whole Duty of Man,* Leslie's Discourses, Bishop Potter on Church Government, Dr.