HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF ^VESTCHESTER.

years ; and in the spring of 1S76 Rev. P. R. Hauxhurst was appoir.ic ;. At the Conference of 1877, the Rev. J. Y. Bates was appointed.

The present membership of the church, is 315. It has a lar^c ar.i i.-.. teresting Sabbath-school -- of which Samuel Scott, Esq., is the sui'cr;:;. tendent. The President of the board of Trustees, Samuel R. Pulkn • Secretary-, J. Malcom Smith; Treasurer, J. R. Tompkins.

The old Episcopal church stood a little east of the old court l;o;::>c It was built of wood, with a tower and vestry room in the rear; v.-.c tower contained a bell, weighing 1135 pounds. This parish was l"int organized by the exertions of the Rev. Lewis P. Bayard in 1S24, wlij occasionally performed services there. Upon the 22nd of .March, iS2j\, the church was in.corporated by the title of Grace (Protestant Episcopal) church, AMiite Plains, in remembrance of Grace church. Rye, whose

Grace Church, Wtiite Plains.

minister had officiated here at intervals from 1762 to iS 16. As early as 1760, White Plains constituted one of the precincts of Rye parisli, ar.d paid a small sum annually towards the support of the rector and the pour ; her connection with Rye was dissolved in 1S16. Richard Jarvis and Alan McDonald were tlie first wardens. Wilham Purdy, John Honon, Gilbert Hatfield, James Dick, Alexander Fowler, Joshua Horton, William Buckley and James ^Merritt, \'estr}'men.

The church edifice was consecrated on the 2nd of June, 1S26, by t'''^ Right Rev. J. H. Hobart. In 1S33 Trinity church, N'ew York, appropriated to this parisli the sum of $750. In 1861 Mr. Pruden gave tr.e present site of ground to the rector, wardens and vestry on Rail Ro.i.i Avenue; and in 1S64, the corner stone was laid.