History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I
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:
" The friends that were appointed a Committee to take a review of the place to set the meeting house on made report that they had met the friends belonging to Mamaroneck weekly meeting and taken a review of the places proposed to set the meeting house on for Mamaroneck weekly meeting & arc of opinion that a piece of land of Benjamin Palmers near & adjoining Cornells land is the most suitable place for that purpose as being near the centre of said weekly meeting & as Benjamin Palmer offered to give half an acre of land to our Society for that use & purpose & John Cornel half an acre adjoining to it for the same use & also each of them to sell half an acre for three pounds ten shillings apiece therefore this meeting approves of having a meeting house set up & erected on said land of Benjamin Palmer, & appoints Edward Burling & Joseph Griffen to take deeds of Benjamin Palmer & John Cornel for said land, & John Cornel Edward Burling and Joseph Griffen & Benjamin Cornel, or the majority of them are appointed a Committee to sell the meeting house at Mamaroneck with the ground it stands on & the land to the westward of the house adjoining the road the width of the house & give a deed lor the same or remove the house to & on the land of Benjamin Palmer aforesaid -- if that house should be sold the new house to be near the dimensions of the old meeting house, & to be one story high with a chimney to it, & report to be made by said Committee to next Quarterly Meeting, &said Committee or some of them are to get a subscription made by the weekly meeting of Mamaroneck & bring to next Quarterly Meeting."