Besides the Priory, Pelham is indebted to the Bolton family for the first, and for many years the only, Episcopal Church within its bounds -- namely, Christ Church, of which the Rev. Charles Higbee is the present rector, and from whom the information contained in this sketch, with regard to the churches of the town, is derived. It is safe to say that without the persistent labors and sacrifices of this family, neither of these institutions-- the church or the priory, both so potent for good to Pelham and the wliole region around it -- would ever have existed. ^

From this church two others have since sprung -- Grace Church, on City Island, of which the Rev. Mr. Winsor is the present rector, and the Church of the Redeemer, at Pelhamvillc, whose rector is the Rev. Cornelius Winter Bolton, a son of the founder of the parent church and the Priory in Pelham.

- No candid historian of the county of Westchester can fail to acknowledge his obligations to the labors of Mr. Robert Bolton in this ' field. Notwithstanding, his history has grave faults. It is as full of ec- I clesiastical bigotry .is of re.-^jarcli, and ought to be entitled, " A History of Episcopacy in the County of Westchester." Jtore than ten times the I space accorded to all other denominations is given to this one, and the matter introduced is often tediously minute, dry and uninteresting.

HISTOKY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

It is to be hoped that the great debt which the town of Pclham owes and must forever owe to the members of the Bolton family will never be forgotten. Their names ought to be cherished along with that of the father and founder of the manor itself.