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in procuring the benefaction which the Trustees are informed, the said 

 Society have been pleased to grant to this Congregation." 



The Trustees now proceeded to restore the services in the parish, 

 which had been suspended for nearly thirteen years. Accordingly, at a 

 meeting held July 5th, 1790, it was resolved: — 



'• That an application be made to the Rev. Theodosius Bartow, for the 

 purpose of engaging him as a minister to serve this church, for the term 

 of two years, every other Sunday in the year, and that the members of 

 this congregation be called upon, by the trustees, to subscribe such sums 

 as they think proper on this occasion." 6 



Upon the 2d of January 1792 the Trustees accepted the Rev. Theo- 

 dosius Bartow, as minister of the church, for a term of two years, from 

 the 1st of January, 1791. His ministrations were highly acceptable 

 during this short period. He was the g-andson of the Rev. John Bar- 

 tow, the first minister of the church at Westchester. 



The Rev. John Ireland, A.M., was elected his successor, on the 20th 

 of August, 1794. He was the son of John Ireland, an officer in the 

 British army during the revolution, who died in this country. He was 

 born in England, A. D. 1755 ; but at what institution he graduated, is 

 unknown. He came to this country some time prior to the adoption of 

 the federal constitution ; studied for holy orders ; was ordained deacon 

 and priest by the Rt. Rev. Samuel Provost, D.D., in 1792, and was called 

 to this parish, as we have seen, in 1794. 



The following release for the site of the church, and adjoining ceme- 

 etry, was given by the trustees of the town, to those of the Church in 1795. 

 But as the Rector of this parish had been inducted over all the rights 

 and appurtenances of the Church for a period of nearly seventy-five 

 years, and more especially as the charter of 1762 had confirmed the 

 rector, wardens and vestrymen in possession, " of the church and the 

 ground whereon the same was built, and the cemetery belonging to the 

 same," we cannot see by what right the former party could release prop- 

 erty that did not belong to them. Such a conveyance amounts to noth- 

 ing at all. 



RELEASE FOR BURYING GROUND FROM THE TRUSTEES OF 

 WESTCHESTER TO ST. PETER'S CHURCH. 



"This indenture made the 20th day of January, in the year of our Lord 1795, 

 between the Trustees of the Town of Westchester, of the one part, and the Trus- 

 tees of the Episcopal Church of St. Peter's, in the Town of Westchester, of the 



a Ditto, p. 44. In 1791, the Society were pleased to grant the sum of £-200. 

 b Westchester Vestry Book. In 1791 it was ordered, " that a collection be made for the use 

 of the church and the minister, on every day on which Divine service shall be performed." 



