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the Parish of Westchester that there shall be raised ,£50 for the minis- 

 ter's maintenance, the proportion of Eastchester being £9, 17s. 6d. a 



Upon the 3d of April, 1702, John Drake and Thomas Pinckney were 

 authorized, "To agree with a carpenter to make a pulpit, and set up the 

 gallery and repair the window shutters, &c." 



At the same time, John Tompkins, jun., was also chosen " To beat 

 the drum constantly, every Lord's day, if occasion require, and at other 

 times when it is needful, and to keep the drum in repair ; and the said 

 inhabitants do promise to pay him therefor 9 pence a piece, every one.'' 



"April 14th, 1702, the inhabitants of Eastchester have given liberty 

 unto Mr. Joseph Morgan, our minister, that is to say the use of that 

 part of meadow by and near unto Saml. Water's house, and that he shall 

 have the use of the said meadow for the term of ten years after the date 

 hereof." 6 * 



On the 1 8th of May, 1703, the inhabitants of Eastchester appointed 

 Mr. Thos. Pinkney and Mr. Edmund Ward " To draw an obligation 

 with Mr. Joseph Morgan, minister, for one year, for his encouragement, 

 and to see who will subscribe thereunto for the payment of the town." 



Mr. Morgan, who must have resigned the pastoral charge of East- 

 chester sometime during the above-mentioned year, was the son of 

 Lieut. Joseph Morgan, (of what is now Preston County by his wife 

 Dorothy, daughter of Thomas Parke, of Weathersfield), the third son of 

 James Morgan, a native of Wales, who was born in 1607, and who em- 

 migrated to Roxbury, Mass., in 1638.. The Rev. Joseph was born at 

 Preston 6th of November, 167 1. "His name stands on the catalogue 

 of Yale College as one of the graduates in the class of 1702, but he was 

 probably not a regular graduate ; and the degree of A. B. was doubtless 

 conferred upon him as an honarary one — for according to the " History 

 of Greenwich," Conn., he was settled over the First Church, Greenwich, 

 in 1697, and in 1700, dismissed and settled over Second Church, Green- 

 wich. He was also a regular preacher in Bedford, Westchester County, 

 N. Y., in 1699, and was ordained by the Fairfield County Association 

 in 1700,"" and soon after called to Eastchester. "From 1704 to 1708, 

 he was again the minister at Greenwich, Conn. In 1709, he was settled 

 as pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Freehold, New Jersey, and in 

 1728 was charged before the Synod with "practising astrology, counte- 

 nancing promiscuous dancing, and transgressing in drink." These 

 charges were not sustained. He resigned, however, and took charge of 

 the two churches at Hopewell and Maidenhead, N. J.; and in 1736, was 



a Town Eec. vol. vu, p. 57. 



b Vestry Books of Westchester Parish. 



c Morgan Family, by N. H. Morgan, Hartford, 1869. 



