Two were ordered for Westchester County -- " one to have the care of Westchester, East Chester, Yonkcrs and the Manor of Pelham ; the other to have the care of Rye, Mamaroneck and Bedford." Each was to be paid fifty ])Ounds per annum by a levy laid upon the people, which they might pay "in country jiroduce at money price." Iron-clad enactments protected the pastor against the possibility of non-payment of salary. The justices of the county were required to issue warrants to the constables to summon the freeholders on the second Tuesday of January, to choose ten vestrymen and two church wardens; the justices and the vestrynien laid the tax, and if it was not paid, the constables had the power to distrain for it. At each stage of the proceedings fines were provided for persons or officials who failed to discharge their duties.'

iTbe language of Hie act refers only to a "Protestant Ministcr.'i .'There can be no doubt," stiys Mr. Dawson, in the "Historical Magazine," "that it was the intention of the Assembly to iiroviJe for the maintenance of the Dissenting clergy. Tlie act was very loosely worded, which, as things stood when it was made, conld not be avoided. The Dissenters could claim the benefit of itas well as Churchmeu, and unless

The Puritans were keenly affected by this is.sue. Francis Doughty, who had been expelled by the Congregationalists from Taunton, Mass., is said to have been the first Puritan or Presbyterian minister in New York. He officiated from 1643 to 1648, and was supported by voluntary contributions from the Puritans and Dutch of the city. Puritans were certainly among the early settlers of Westchester. In volume iii. page 557, of the Documentary History of New York, there is an interesting description of a Puritan service at Westchester in 165(5, conducted by two laymen, Robert Bassett and a Mr.