THE TOWN OF WESTCHESTER. 349 



ety's schoolmaster, and we have private schools in other places; no endowment ; 

 some families of the Town of Pelharn that are adjacent, come to Eastchester 

 church. 



Q. Have you a parochial library: if yon have, are the books preserved and 

 kept in good condition ? Have you any particular rules and orders for the pre- 

 serving of them ? Are those rules and orders duly observed ? 



A. We have no parochial library. 



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Rector, dec, of WesicJiester.^ 

 In his report to the Secretary, Mr. Bartow observes : — 



" That the church is much in the same condition as when he wrote 

 last; and that in the year 1724, he baptized thirty- nine, two whereof 

 were grown persons.' 



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The subjoined extract is from a letter of his to the Secretary. The 

 Rev. Mr. Talbot mentioned in the beginning of it, was dismissed from 

 the society's sendee for alledged Jacobitism : — 



MR. BARTOW TO THE SECRETARY. 



Province of New Yoke. 

 May 4th 1725. 

 Sib: — " I am creditably informed that the Society have discharged the Rev. 

 Mr. Talbot from being any longer their missionary : whereby the fruits of the 

 pious bequest of the late Archbishop of Canterbury do descend to me, as being 

 the next oldest in their service, of that province, till by the providence of God 

 we have bishops here lawfully established. Nothing is too great for God to give, 

 even to the undeserving, andtherefore I humbly and thankfully should accept 

 it of His gracious providence ; but be it at the disposal of the most Rev. and 

 Honorable Society, as seems by an abstract of their proceedings, Anno 1714—1 

 should not presume to ask it of them, nay, scarce desire it in my private thoughts 

 being conscious of my unworthiness, and enjoined to be content in my condition, 

 in which I remain, still praying to God for His blessings on their Christian labors. 

 Sir, Y'our most obedient. &c, 



JOHN BARTOW. "« 



Probably the last communication the Society ever received from Mr. 

 Bartow, is the following : — 



a Hawks' New York MSS. from archives at Fulham, vol. i. 635. 



b Printed abstracts of Yen. Soc. 



« Hawks' New York MSS., from archives at Fulham, vol i. p. 64. 



