226 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



The above Act was disannulled by Queen Anne in Council in 1762- 

 3, as appears from the following in a letter addressed by the Lords of 

 Trade to Lord Cornbury, dated Whitehall, Jan. 26th, 1702, occurs the 

 following : 



"P. S. — Since the writing of this letter, upon consideration of the Act for 

 declaring the town of Eastchester to be a distinct parish, &c, and of the reasons 

 offered to us against it by the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of London, we 

 have prepared a report to be laid before Her Majesty with our humble opinion 

 that the same be disallowed. " a 



Again their lordships writing to the same, dated Whitehall, April 7 th, 

 1703, say: 



" We have told you in a former letter that we had prepared a report with our 

 opinion for disannulling the Act declaring the Town of East Chester to be a dis- 

 tinct Parish, &c. Which having accordingly been done, We likewise send you 

 a Copy of Her Majesty's Order in Council for that effect. " b 



June the 12th, 1700. — "The town exchanged land with Mr. Joseph 

 Morgan, pastor of the church in East Chester." 



The inhabitants of Eastchester also at the same time " did give and 

 grant two acres of land, to be laid out where it shall not be within the 

 Town's sheep pasture, unto Mr. Joseph Morgan, minister, &c." c 



"June 26, 1700. At a town meeting held by the inhabitants of 

 Eastchester, the inhabitants have agreed that the minister's note and 

 the town rate shall be paid by agreement, as the town rate was payd 

 in the year i6g4." d 



u At a public town meeting called by order of the inhabitants, Oct. 

 4th, 1700, the said inhabitants directed Mr. Henry Fowler and Richard 

 Shute, (with the rest of the intended church,) to write unto the reverend 

 ministers in New England concerning the ordination ; they having the 

 assistance of the Rev. Mr. Morgan. Also, that Mr. John Pinckney, 

 Henry Fowler and Richard Shute, shall write unto his Excellency for 

 his approbation, that he will be pleased to induct our minister the Rev. 

 Joseph Morgan ; at the same time Joseph Drake and John Shute, were 

 chosen to hire a man to build a pulpit on the town account." 



March the 6th, 1701, the inhabitants " exchanged 4 rods of land with 

 Joseph Morgan, pastor of the Church of Eastchester." 



January 12th, 1702, it was resolved by the justices and vestrymen of 



a N. Y. Col. M. S. S., London Doc. 15, vol. iv. p. 1026. 



b Ditto, p. 1038. 



cTown Rec vol. vil. ;>. 24. 



d Town Ilea vol. vii, p. 24. 



