Warham Mather as our minister for one whole year; and that he shall have sixty pound, in country produce at money price, for his salary, and that he shall be paid every quarter." Apparently the arrangement was not effected, or at least did not endure for long; for in 1092 the town voted that " there shall be an orthodox minister, as soon as possible may be," and requested Colonel Caleb Heathcote, " in his travels in New England," to procure one. September 21, 1093, the provincial assembly of New York passed an ecclesiastical act, under which Westchester County was divided

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into two parishes, Westchester and Llye, the former to include the Towns of Westchester, Eastchester, and Yonkers, and the Manor of Pelham, and the latter the Towns of Eye, Mamaroneck, and Bedford. supWestchester was required to raise £50 yearly for the minister's port, and to elect on the second Tuesday of January ten vestrymen and two church wardens. In 1695 the Rev. Warham Mather was engaged as the Church of England clergyman at Westchester. He was succeeded in 1702 by the Rev. John Bartow, a missionary of the Venerable Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, newly arrived from England, who continued to officiate until his death, in 1720. He was a man of excellent learning and high character, and his letters (of which numerous ones are reproduced by Bolton) are of much interest to students of the early conditions in Westchester County. The orthodox church at Westchester was formally chartered under the name of Saint Peter's by Lieutenant-Governor Clarke in 1762. Eastchester, incorporated in the parish of Westchester by the act of 1693, was made a separate parish in 1700. From early times the as Saint Paul's. To this day their Eastchester parish was knownEpiscopalian churches preserve Westchester and Eastchester