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

original names of Saint Peter's and Saint Paul's, respectively. The present Saint Peter's Church edifice in Westchester village is entirely modern, but Saint Paul's in Eastchester dates from about 1761, and is one of the most interesting of the old-time structures in our county. This is not the connection, however, in which to relate the church history of Westchester County, or even to note with particularity the local facts of church and religious concerns in the Town of Westchester and its associated Localities, interesting though those facts are. We are occupied with (he general story of Westchester County on broad lines. It has been lilting to intercept our general narrative for a glance at the borough Town of Westchester, whose creation constitutes one of the essential phases of the general history of the county. Having discharged this duty in as succinct a manner as possible, we now proceed with the broader narrative. The local history of Westchester County from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the Revolution involves nothing remarkable, aside from the aspects of the peculiar character from the first assumed by the county which have been described in our account of the origin and erection of the great manorial estates. Following the lines of development naturally resulting from its selection as the seat of wealthy and influential landed proprietors, Westchester County very soon took a prominent position on this account, and, through the powerful and distinguished men whose homes and in-