The Boston Road to-day at tliat point is still the old Westchester Path. Both plots were directly opposite the entrance to Mr. Peter Jay Munro's grounds within which, in 1819, he erected his splendid Country House, now the Hotel at Larchmont, termed the "Manor House." In the centre of the last mentioned plot, some little distance back from the road, was built, probably the first Quaker ]\Ieeting House in Mamaroneck. The exact year is uncertain but was probably 1739,^ in which year Mr.

■ MS. letter of .lames Wood, the present President of the Westchester Historical Society, who has made exhaustive researches into tlie history of tlie Friends in Wcstcliester County.

- Letter of James Wood,

MAMARONECK.

Wood says a meeting house was built there, but he does not know whether it was the first. Mr. William H. Carpenter of the present meeting who at the writer's request made investigations of this point says it was " in 1735 or thereabout." ' On that spot stood the house, and there the Meeting was held, till 1768. On the 6th of the 2d month,-- February-- in that year the quarterly meeting at the Purchase directed five Friends to "review" "the place near the centre of said meeting " to which it was proposed to move *he Meeting House at Mamaroneck, there being some dissatisfaction.

At the quarterly meeting held at the " oblong " on the 30th of the succeeding 4th month, April, 1768, the committee made the following interesting report: