THE TOWN OF WESTCHESTER. 



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"At a meeting held by the trustees the 14th of of September, 1700, 

 present, Josiah Hunt, President, Edward Waters, Joseph Haviland, John 

 Hunt, Joseph Bayley, John Ferris, senr., and Richard Panton. 'Tis 

 voted and agreed upon that all that shall cart timber and stuff for the 

 meeting house, shall have six shillings per diem ; and that Joseph Havi- 

 land and Tohn Hunt shall agree with a carpenter for the timber work 

 and the prison, as they shall see cause, 8zc. Done in behalf of the 

 Freeholders and Commonality of the town."* 



At a subsequent meeting of the trustees, held on the 26th day of 

 October, A. D , 1700, " It was resolved that Richard Ward shall build 

 the meeting house twenty-eight feet square, with a terret on the top, for 

 forty pounds."* 



In an address of the Venerable Propagation Society, the following 

 account is given of the building of this church : — 



" We whose names are subscribed do hereby certify that the church of 

 Westchester was built by a rate laid and levied on the inhabitants of the 

 said town in proportion to their estates, in the year of our Lord 1700; 

 and that Mr. Morgan, a Presbyterian minister of Eastchester did some- 

 times come to preach in it, until such time as Mr. Bartow came and took 

 possession of it in the year 1702, since which time it has been supplied 

 by him, &c." a >• 



This building stood on the site of the present church, upon what was 

 then styled the Town Green, d adjoining the old County Court-house 6 

 and jail. It was built of wood, quadrangular in form/ with a pyrami- 



ds Westchester Town Rec. Lib. v. 145. 



b Westchester Town Rec. Lib. v. 145. 



c Hawks' New York MSS. from archives at Fulham. vol. i. 463. 



d On the 5th of June, lOim, the trustees grantee) unto the Mayor and Alderman of the Bor- 

 ough, for the use of the Corporation, part of the Greed in said town, to erect a market house 

 and settle the market —Lib. v. 63. 



e The following extract U copied from the New York Post Boy, for Feb. 13, 1758:— "We 

 hear from Weschester that on Saturday night, the 4th instant, the court house at that place 

 was unfortunately burnt to ttie ground. We have not heard yet how it happened." 



/The Venerable IV'de informs us, that in his time, tue English churches were square. 

 S i ik ng oi the building of St. Peter's church, at York. mfi-2r, by I 



' Per quadrum coepit osdificare basilicam.' 



King Edwin, he says :- 

 -Vide Bedoe Hist Eccles, Lib. ii. chap. 14. 



