388 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



greater part of the members of their church are unable to contribute any consider- 

 able sums towards these desirable purposes, your petitioners have the best reason 

 to believe their good intentions will be entirely defeated, unless they are aided 

 by charitable donations from abroad. And your petitioners beg leave to show, 

 that they are informed your Honorable Society have some property in this State, 

 bequeathed to your corporation for charitable purposes, by the will of St. George 

 Talbot, formerly of New York j and that it is your intention to bestow whatever 

 may arise from funds yet left in America, to American Episcopal churches. 

 Encouraged by this hope, and confiding in the well known pious and liberal dis- 

 position of j'our honorable board, your petitioners humbly request, that to enable 

 them to rebuild their church, they may be favored with the Society's bounty, 

 and authorized to receive for this purpose, from any monies being the property 

 of the Society, which now arc, or may hereafter come into the hands of the exe- 



St. Peter's Church, erected in 1790. 



cutors of the late St. George Talbot, or any of them, or any person or persons 

 acting for them, or action of them, the sum of £200 sterling, or such other sums, 

 as to the piety and charity of your truly Christian corporation shall seem meet ; 

 and your petitioners as in duty bound, shall ever pray, &c." a 



Upon the 26th of January, 1789, the trustees made an agreement 

 with John Odell, of New York, carpenter, to build a church for the sum 



At a meeting, Nov. 16th, 1789, Messrs. Bayard, Livingston and Bar- 

 tow, were appointed a committee to write a letter to the Rev, Dr. 

 Chandler, returning the thanks of this Corporation, for his favorable 

 recommendation of this congregation to the Reverend, the Society for 

 the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts ; and for his assistance 



a Westchester Vestry Book, p. 39. 

 b Westchester Vestry Book, p. 40. 



