HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



RECTORS OF PELHAM. 



Inst, or Call. Incumbents. 



28 April, 1843, Rev. Robert Bolton, Presb. 



Rev. Alexander Siiiras, D.D., Presb., 

 Rev. M. M. Dillon, Presb., 

 Rev. Edward "W. Syle, Presb., 

 Rev. J. Mt Alpine Harding, Presb., 

 Rev. Charles Higbee, 



Vacated Br. 



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 present incumbent. 



Near to the entrance of the Priory, on the grounds of Miss Lydia Em- 

 met, daughter of the late Hon. Robert Emmet, Judge of the Supreme 

 Court of the State, son of Thomas Addis Emmet, the celebrated Irish 

 jurist, is another large boulder, weighing several tons. 



Parochial School of Christ church, Pelham. 



Deveau town is a small scattered hamlet in this vicinity, so named af- 

 ter Abel Deveau, an old whig of the Revolution, and proprietor of a 

 small estate. This individual was proud of relating how he and others 

 were deployed as skirmishes to way-lay the British near the causeway, 

 after their landing on Pelham Neck, in 1776, firing behind the rock 

 near Rapelye's, and retiring, as they advanced, towards Eastchester. The 

 late Abel Deveau, of Pelham, was his son ; and one of his grandsons is 

 the present Richard Deveau, of New Rochelle. 



From the town records we take the following extracts : — 



" At a town meeting held at the school house in the town- of Pelham, on Tues- 

 day the seventh day of April, 1801, for the purpose of electing town officers for 



