3-j8 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



Q. Are there any Infidels, bond or free, within your parish, and what means 

 are used for tlu'ir conversion? 



.1. We have Infidels, bond and free, who have liberty to come to the churches, 

 and are not denied baptism when fit and desirous of it ; some of which I have 

 baptized. 



Q. How oft is divine service performed in your church, and what proportion 

 of the parishioners attend it ? 



A. Divine service is performed in one of our churches every Sunday, when 

 I have about seventy auditors in the afternoon — there being not quite so many 

 in the morning, by reason that those who live at a distance seldom come in the 

 morning. 



Q. How oft is the sacrament of the Lord's supper administered ; and what is 

 the usual number of communicants ? 



A. The Lord's supper is administered by me, in the church at Westchester, on 

 Christmas day, Easter and Whitsunday, and at other times, occasionally in other 

 places of the parish, and we have usually eighteen communicants, more or less. 



Q. At what time do you catechize the youth of j'our parish? 



-1. I have been wont to catechize the youth on Sundays in the afternoon, be- 

 fore we had a settled school ; but now I leave that office to Mr. Forster, the 

 Society's schoolmaster, who not only catechizes in the school, but in the church, 

 when I am absent, all that will come. 



Q. Are all things duly disposed and provided in the church, for the decent and 

 orderly performance of divine service ? 



A. We have all things decent, excepting the surplice. 



Q. Of what value is your living in sterling money, and how does it arise ? 



A. The value of my living is £50 sterling of New York money; which is 

 almost £32 10, sterling, paid not without some difficulty and loss. 



Q. Have you a house and glebe ; is your glebe in lease or let by the year, or 

 is it occupied by j-ourself ? 



^4. I have twenty-three acres of glebe in my occupation, but no parsonage 

 house. I lived at my first coming in an hired house, in expectation of a par- 

 sonage house ; though talk't of to be built, but finding it would not be effected 

 two years ago I purchased one. 



Q. Is due care taken to preserve your house in good repair, and at whose ex- 

 pense is it done ? 



A. I live in my own house adjoining the glebe, and have always repaired it 

 at my own expense. 



Q. Have you more cures than one; if you have, what are they, and in what 

 manner are they served ? 



-1. I have four towns under my cure — Westchester, Eastchester, Yonkers, and 

 the Manor of Pelham, (of which New Rochelle is a part) — in whose churches I 

 officiate on Sundays, according to their several quotas, on the payment of £50 

 per annum. I preach at Westchester every Lord's day, excepting every fourth 

 Sunday at Eastchester, three times in the year at Yonkers, and so often as I can 

 at New Rochelle. 



Q. Have you in your parish any public school for the instruction of youth ; if 

 you have, is it endowed, and who is the master? 



A. We have a pubiic school in Westchester, of which Mr. Forster is the soci- 



