172 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



brook, are granted to Air. Thomas Denham, and the ensuing year he is 

 to have all the grass in the highway at the first of the old town lots ; 

 also ^30 allowed for his maintenance. The General Court of Connec- 

 ticut, October 14th, 1680, ordered that thirty pounds per annum agreed 

 by Rye to be paid to the minister, Mr. Denham, shall be gathered by 

 the constable with the county rate, in the same specie and prices as the 

 county rate, and by him to be paid to the said minister. * A.D. 1682, 

 the town confirms the sum of ^30 as salary to Mr. Denham, and orders 

 the same to be paid in provisions. 



The historian, Trumbull, informs us that about the year 1688 the Rev. 

 John Bowers removed from Derby and settled at Rye. 



April 2 2(1, 1690, Captain Horton, Joseph Theall, and John Brondig 

 are chosen by the town to procure a minister, and, if possible, a school- 

 master. 



27th June, 1693. Hachaliah Brown, George Lane and Timothy Knapp 

 were added to the above committee to procure a minister as soon as 

 possible. 



February 26th, 1694, it is ordered that the townsman make a rate to 

 defray the expense of repairing the parsonage house. 2 2d July, 1697, 

 Captain Theal, Hachaliah Brown, George Lane and Thomas Merritt 

 are chosen by a vote for the procuring of a minister for the town of Rye. 



Colonel Caleb Heathcote, writing to the secretary of the Propagation 

 Society in 1705, observes, "that there is no parish in the Government 

 but what is able to pay twice as much as they do. For Rye parish, 

 which is not by one-half so large as the least parish established by law 

 in the Government here, since my living here, maintained two dissent- 

 ing ministers, viz : one at Rye and Mamaroneck, and one at Bedford ; 

 and gave the former ^50, and the latter ^£40 a year."* 



A LIST OF MINISTERS OF THE CONGREGATIONAL OR PRESBY- 

 TERIAN CHURCH, RYE. 



Isist. os Call. Ministers. 



1675, Rev. Peter Pkudden, 



1677, Rev. Thomas Denham, 



circ. 16S4, Rev. John Woodbridge, 



1697, Rev. Nathaniel Bowers. 



THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 

 On the 15th of May, 1729, they secured a building spot. The deed 

 for which is entered upon the town records. This plot of ground was 



a Tlart. Col. Rec. vol. iii, 59. 



b S.'e Scarsdale, for Heathcote's letter. 



