57- HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



ways they have the concurrence and consent of the major number of the whole 

 vestrymen of the said church for the time being, in any thing they shall in such 

 case do by virtue hereof; and further we do by these presents for us, our heirs, 

 and Successors, give and grant unto the rector and inhabitants of the borough 

 town of Westchester in communion of the Church of England as by law estab- 

 lished, and their successors forever, that this our present grant shall be deemed, 

 adjudged and construed in all cases most favourably, and for the best benefit and 

 advantage of the rector and inhabitants of the borough town of Westchester in 

 communion of the Church of England as by law established, and that this our 

 present grant being entered on record as is hereinafter particularly expressed, 

 shall be good and effectual in the law to all intents, constructions and purposes 

 whatsoever, against us, our heirs and successors, according to our true interests 

 and meaning herein before declared, notwithstanding the not reciting or mis-re- 

 citing, not naming or mis-naming of any of the aforesaid franchises, privileges, 

 immunities, or officers, in either the premises or any of them, and although no 

 writ of ad quod damnum or other writs, inquisitions in precept hath or have been 

 upon this account, had, made, or prosecuted or issued, to have and to hold all 

 and singular the privileges, liberties, advantages, and immunities hereby granted 

 or meant, mentioned, or intended so to be, unto the said rector and inhabitants of 

 the borough town of Westchester in communion of the Church of England as by 

 law established, and to their successors forever. In testimony whereof we have 

 caused these our letters to be made patent, and the great seal of our said province 

 to be hereunto affixed, and the same to be entered on record in our Secretary's 

 office, in our city of New York, in one of the books of patents there remaining. 

 Witness, our trusty and well beloved Robt. Monckton, our Captain General and 

 Governour-in-Chief of our province of New York and the territories depending 

 thereon in America, Vice- Admiral of the same and Major General of our forces, 

 at our fort in our city of New "Xork, by and with the advice and consent of our 

 Governour for our said province. Second day of December, in the year A. D. 

 1762, and of our reign the third. 



[L. S.] Signed, CLARKE."* 



The Society's abstracts for 1764, say: — 



" The Rev. Mr. Milner, the Society's Missionary at Westchester, in 

 his letters dated June 8th, and December 21st, 1764; acquaints the So- 

 ciety that he has, at his own expense, laid out a sum, amounting to two 

 hundred pounds currency, repaired the parsonage house, built a new 

 barn and out houses, (the vestry promising to reimburse him as soon as 

 their circumstances will permit), and the people of Eastchester have laid 

 the foundation of a new stone church, seventy-one feet by thirty-eight, 

 in the room of a small decayed wooden building, erected in the infancy 

 of their settlement. Mr. Milner has, in pursuance of the powers given 

 him by the Society, appointed Mr. Nathaniel Seabury, a son of the late 

 worthy missionary at Hempstead, to be school master at Westchester." 



The church-wardens of Westchester in their letter, dated July 7, 1764, 



a Alb. Bee Book of Pan Tits, N<>. xm , p. 490-495. The original document or parchment is 

 in possession of the clerk of the vestry. 



