364 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



In Testimony whereof, I have hereto set my hand and seal, this fifth day of 

 May. in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and fifty-eight. 



Signed, Bealed, published and declared by THOMAS STANDARD, [l. s.] 



the said Thomas Standard, as and for a 

 codicil, in the presence of us who subscribe 

 our names as evidences thereof, in the tes- 

 tator's presence. J no Bartow, 



Charles Vincent, 



Lewis Gtjtow, 



Thomas Butler. "<* 



The state of the parish, about eleven months after Mr. Standard's 

 death, is thus described by the Rev. Dr. Barclay, in a letter to the Sec- 

 retary, from which we take the following: 



MR BABCLAT TO THE SECRETARY. 



[Extract.] 



New York, Dec. 10th, 1760. 

 " Westchester and Rye continue still vacant. Religion is at the lowest ebb in 

 yt country, and unless some zealous aud discrete clergyman be appointed to those 

 missions, the very term of it will soon disappear — as Westchester is a wide ex- 

 tended county, three missionaries can find more than sufficient employment, and 

 I know of no place where they can be more serviceable ; provided they have the 

 interest of religion at heart." 6 



From the following passage, in the life of Samuel Johnson, D. D., by 

 Dr. Chandler, it appears that as early as 1755, the Society had provided 

 an assistant and suscessor to Mr. Standard, in the person of Mr. William 

 Johnson, a younger son of the Doctor's ; but unfortunately, their plans 

 were frustrated by his early death." " Mr. William Johnson embarked 

 for England, November the 8th, 1755, with a view of returning in Holy 

 orders, to assist and succeed Mr. Standard, the superanuated missionary 

 at Westchester. He was received by the Society, by Bishops Sher- 

 lock and Seeker, and all the Doctor's friends, with great affection. They 

 recommended him to the University of Oxford, for the degree of Master 

 of Arts, which was readily conferred upon him, in the month of May, 

 and soon after to the Univesity of Cambridge, where he was admitted aa 

 eundem. He had received holy orders in March, and had preached 

 several times in and about London, with great reputation. But soon 

 after his return from Cambridge, he was seized with the small-pox, which 

 proved fatal to him on the 20th of June, 1756. He was buried in Mr. 



a Tr .111 a true copy, examined with the onsrin.il, by P. Banyar, D. Sec. Date 



Surrogates office, N. Y., voL xxi , p, 496. 

 b New York MSS. from archives at Fulhum, vol. ii. 282.— (Hawks.) 



