272 The Story of The Bronx 



reports of the rectors of St. Peter's to the Society for the Pro- 

 pagation of the Faith in Foreign Parts, we find constant 

 allusions to them. In the account of the election of 1733, 

 we have read of the attempt to deprive them of their votes. 



It is stated that the first meeting in America of the Society 

 of Friend- was held at Westchester. There is also a tradition 

 that George Fox, the founder of the sect, preached here as 

 early as 1672. 



In the records of Westchester County, at White Plains, 

 we find the following: 



"Court of Sessions. June 6 & 7, 1704. Order of Court 



"Present: Col. Heathcot, President of said Ct., 

 Joseph Thealle ) 

 John Hunt > Justices. 



Thomas Pickney ) 



" Petition & Order. 



"Petition by Josiah Hunt and John Harriss, and Hors- 

 man Mullenox in behalf of People called Quakers Shows 

 that in obedience to an Act of Parliament made in the 

 first year of King William & Queen Mary, requiring that 

 places of meetings of all Protestant Dissenters for their wor- 

 ship of God should be certified by the People to the General 

 or Quarter Sessions for the aforesaid County [Westchester] 

 and prays that in obedience to said Act in Westchester at 

 John Harriss, Jr., and in Mamaroneck at Samuel Palmer's, 

 to be recorded for places of their meetings for worship of God. 



"Order that petition be recorded and that the meetings of 

 the Dissenters Protestants, called Quakers shall be held at 

 John Harriss' in Westchester and at Samuel Palmer's 

 in Mamaroneck." 



The headquarters of the Friends, or the place of their Yearly 

 and Quarterly Meetings, was at Flushing, Long Island, in 

 the early colonial days. The Quarterly meeting of March 



