244 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



LEASE FOR CHURCH LOT. 

 This indenture, made the 2Sth day of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, be- 

 twecn William H. Popham in the town of Scarsdale, county of Westchester, 

 State of New York, party of the first part, and the rector, church-wardens and 

 vestrymen of the Church of St. Janus the Less, in the town of Scarsdale, in the 

 county of Westchester, State of New York, of the second part, witnesseth: that 

 the said party of the first part, for and in consideration of the rents, covenants, 

 agreements and conditions hereinafter mentioned, reserved and contained on the 

 part and behalf of the said parties of the second part and their successors, to be 

 paid, kept and performed as granted, demised and to farm let, and by these pres- 

 ents doth grant, devise, and to farm-let unto the said parties of the second part 

 and their successors, all that certain lot, piece or p .reel of laud, on which the 

 church edifice of St. James the Less is now erected in the town aforesaid, bound- 

 ed and containing as follows : — commencing at a bound mark on the south fence 

 of the old Scarsdale farm road, being the northerly corner of a lot of land de- 

 signed for a cemetery marked A on the annexed diagram, running thence south 

 fifteen degrees, west six chains two links, along a line of pegs, and east of the 

 church edifice as shown by a dotted line in diagram to a ground mark in the op- 

 posite fence at B, thence along the south fence north seventj'-five degrees, thirty 

 minutes, west five chains and sixty links to a point in diagram marked C, thence 

 north seventeen degrees, thirteen minutes, east six chains and eighty links, fifty 

 links east of and parallel to the western fence of said lot as shown by a dotted 

 hue to a point marked D in diagram, thence south sixty-seven degrees, forty min- 

 utes, cast forty chains and ninety-two links along the south fence of the old 

 Scarsdale farm road aforesaid, to the place of commencing at A. The lot is 

 bounded on all sides by lands of the said William H. Popham, and contains 

 three acres one rood and twenty-six perches, as designated in a diagram hereun- 

 to annexed, surveyed by R. Henwood, October, eighteen hundred and fifty-one. 

 To have and to hold the above mentioned and described premises with the ap- 

 purtenances, unto the said parties of the second part and their successors in office 

 from the day of the date hereof, for and during the full end and time of one 

 thousand years next ensuing, and fully to be completed and ended, yielding and 

 paying therefor unto the said party of the first part, and his heirs yearly and 

 every yi ar during the said term hereby granted the yearly rent or sum of one 

 silver dime, lawful money of the United States of America, on the Festival of St. 

 Philip and St. James in each and every year ; and, also, the parties of the sec- 

 ond part or their successors in office, shall not at any time during the continuance 

 $)f the term hereby granted let, underlet, assign, sell or convey the whole or any 

 part of said premises to any person or persons, sole or corporate whatever, ex- 

 cept the right or privilege of burial in said ground ; and upon the further condition 

 that religious services in said church during said term shall be performed accord- 

 ing to the form prescribed by the book of Common Prayer, or the administration of 

 the Sacraments and other rites and ceremonies as prescribed in said book for the 

 use of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of America, and 

 of the doctrine and discipline therein set forth, and the canons of said Church 

 by a duly and regularly ordained minister of said Protestant Episcopal Church, 

 or by one allowed bv the canons of said Church so to officiate, or by a duly 

 ordained minister of the Church of England, as now by law established, and 



