1 86 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



In a letter of April 7th, 1759, Mr. Wetmore acquaints the Society 

 " that a very worthy person, a native of England," but now being in New 

 York, had put into his hands ^600 currency, of which he reserves to 

 himself the interest during life, and hath left by his will ^400 more to 

 be added after his death, to purchase a convenient glebe, and other lib- 

 eral legacies." 6 



The Rev. James Wetmore died on the 15th of May, 1760,° having 

 been nearly thirty-four years minister of this church. His remains re- 

 pose in the old parish burial ground, on the northwest side of Blind 

 brook. A plain monumental tablet marks the spot, and bears the fol- 

 lowing inscription : 



Sacred to TnE Memory 



of the 



REV. JAMES WETMORE, 



The late, worthy, learned and faithful 



Minister of the Parish of Rye, 



for about thirty years, 



who having strenuously defended the Church 



with his pen, and adorned it by his life 



and doctrine, at length being seized 



of the small pox, departed this 



life, May 15, 1760. ^Etatis, 65. 



Cujus memoriae sit in 

 Benedictione sempiterna. 



Mr. Wetmore left issue two sons — Timothy, afterwards Attorney- 

 General of the Province of New Brunswick, and James, of Rye — descen- 

 dants of the latter are still living in the town. Also four daughters — 

 Alethea, wife of the Rev. Joseph Lamson ; Anna, wife of Gilbert Brund- 

 age ; Charity, wife of Josiah Purdy, from whom descend the Purdys, of 

 Rye ; and Esther, who married first David Brown, and secondly Jesse 

 Hunt, Esq., high sheriff of this county in 1780. 



In a letter or May 6th, 1761, Mr. Timothy Wetmore complains to the 

 Society, ; ' that since the death of his father they had not been favored 

 with a sermon, or either of the sacraments, for six or eight months." 6 * 



a St. George Talbot, Esq., see vol. i, 25. 

 b Reports of Propagation Soc. 



c The last will of Jame.s Wetmore, clerk, bears date Nov., 1759. Surrogate's office, N. Y., 

 Lib. xxii, 123. 

 d Reports of Propagation Soc. 



