31S HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



The old meeting house having fallen to decay, the following resolu- 

 tion was passed at a town meeting, held the 5th day of May, 1696: — 



"It is voated and agreed upon that the meeting house shall be re- 

 paired forthwith, and that two men shall be chosen to see it done — 

 Gabriel Legat and Josiah Hunt, is chosen to agree with a carpenter to 

 repair the said meeting house, and to bring an account to the town of 

 the cost and expence thereof whereby a rate may be made to defraye 

 the charge in so doing." 01 



On the 3rd day of May, 1697, at a meeting of the freeholders and 

 inhabitants of the town and precincts of Westchester : — " It was voted 

 and agreed upon, that there should be a Town House built, to keep 

 courts in, and for the pud/ick worship of God." h 



Soon after this vote of the town, in the year 1699, an act of General 

 Assembly was made to enable the respective towns within the whole 

 province to build and repair their meeting houses, &c. c Whereupon 

 the inhabitants of Westchester laid aside the prosecution of building the 

 town house above, according to the said town vote, and took hold of 

 the said act, by virtue whereof a new Parish church was erected in 

 1700, and a rate laid and levied on all the inhabitants, without any dis- 

 tinction, towards defraying the expenses. 



The following resolutions were passed at a meeting of the trustees, 

 held on the 8th of June, 1700: — 



" It is voted aud agreed upon by the trustees aforesaid, that the rate shall be 

 made up forthwith, and delivered to the constable, who shall have for collecting 

 the same, six pence per pound : 



" Whereas att a general meeting held in the Borough town of Westchester, by 

 the freeholders and inhabitants of said town and precincts, on the 3rd day of 

 May, 1G97, it was voted and agreed upon that there should be a town hall built 

 to keep courts in, and for the publick worship of God &c. ; but it being then ne- 

 glected, the Mayor and Aldermen, and trustees at this meeting did order with a 

 joynt consent, to build a house for the uses aforesaid and a prison. The dimen- 

 sions of the house is to be twenty-six feet square, 16 feet joj'nts, a square roof, 

 6 window cases 5 feet square, &c. The trustees agreed with Richard Ward to 

 build said house for £33, and with Erasmus Orton to build the prison for £5, 

 which work is to be done by the 31st of October next." d 



The subjoined order relates to the cartage of timber and other mate- 

 rial for the church &c. : — 



a Westchester Town Rec. Liber, v. 59. 



h Westchester Town Rec, Liber, v. 141. "It had been previously voted and agreed upon 

 that there should be 1 prison built with a town house upon it, according to the dimensions 

 made by Col. lleathcote, Lib. v. p. 77, 



c Laws of N. Y. vol. I. chapter lxxxiii. 37. 



d Westchester Town Rec. Lib. v. 141. 



