494 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



inches, together with the said church or edifice and the hereditaments and appur- 

 tenances thereunto belonging, hut excepting and reserving thereout the two vaults 

 hereafter mentioned. To have and to hold the said premises herehy intended to 

 be conveyed to the said parties of the second part, their successors and assigns 

 forever, but nevertheless on the conditions and subject to the stipulations and 

 covenants herein contained; that is to say, first, that the said church or edifice 

 shall be devoted to the worship of God according to the rites and ceremonies of 

 the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, and shall not 

 be used for any other purpose. Second, that such of the pews in the said church 

 as are marked in the plan hereto annexed with the word Free, shall never he sold 

 or rented, hut shall remain free; so that all persons coming to the said church 

 to worship therein may freely occupy and use the same. Third, that none of the 

 pews within the said church or edifice shall ever he sold, hut that all except those 

 intended to be used free as aforesaid, may be rented for terms not exceeding 

 three years ; and that the rents arising therefrom shall be forever applied for the 

 support of the rector or minister for the time being who shall officiate in the said 

 church, and for no other purpose except for necessary repairs of the said church, 

 and for fuel and other necessary expenses for the services of the same. And 

 whereas a vault hath been constructed which is under the said church, and in 

 which are interred the remains of the mother of the said Gouverneur Morris and 

 whereas there is another vault within the boundaries above described, but not 

 beneath the said church, in which are interred the remains of the father of the 

 said Governeur Morris and of others of his famiby — now it is hereby declared that 

 each of the said vaults, and the ground whereon they are built, is hereby reserved 

 and excepted from the above grant and conveyance, (and it is one of the 

 express conditions of this conveyance,) that the said Gouverneur Morris, his 

 heirs and assigns, shall at all times have access to the said two vaults with the 

 privillege of opening and using the same for the burial of their dead. And 

 whereas the said Gouverneur Morris has also caused to be constructed under the 

 said church other vaults, it is also a condition of this conveyance, that if the 

 parties hereto of the second part shall sell or grant the right of using the same, 

 they shall invest all money to arise from such sales or as compensation for such 

 grants so that it may produce an annual interest or income, and shall apply such 

 interest or income to the support of the rector or minister for the time being 

 officiating in the said church, and for no other purpose whatever. And this con- 

 veyance is on this further condition, that the land herehy conveyed, and not 

 covered by the said church, shall be used for the purposes following and none 

 other ; that is to say, a part not exceeding one half thereof may be used as a site 

 for a parsonage or dwelling house for the use of the rector or minister for the 

 time being officiating in the said church, and for a garden to be attached there- 

 to, and for a site for sheds for the protection of horses and carriages of persons 

 attending worship in the said -church, and the residue of the said land shall be 

 used as a cemetery or burial ground, and for no other purpose ; and it is a further 

 express condition of this conveyance, that no rector or minister shall he called or 

 employed to officiate in the said church during the life of the said Gouverneur 

 Morris without his previous consent in writing, and further, that neither the 

 premises hereby conveyed or any part thereof, nor any of the said pews or vaults, 

 or any of the rents or income to arise therefrom from any part of the said premi- 



