THE TOWN OF EAST CHESTER. 229 



Upon the 19th of November, 1702, the Rev. John Bartow was inducted 

 by Governour Cornbury, into the parish church of Westchester, East- 

 chester, Yonkers and the Manor of Pelham, notwithstanding all the 

 means used to prevent and disturb his settlement by the Independents; 

 and as no "good Orthodox Protestant minister" had been maintained 

 in this parish, in accordance with the late act, Mr. Bartow was consid- 

 ered legally inducted, and settled over all the rights and appurten- 

 ances of Westchester parish, of which the church at Eastchester formed 

 a part. This fact the Independents or Presbyterians themselves ac- 

 knowledged by paying their quota of £$0 per annum, towards Mr. Bar- 

 tow's support, according to the first settlement in 1693. 



In the summary account of the state of the Church in the province of 

 New York, as it was laid. before the clergy, convened October 5th, 1704, 

 at New York, by the appointment of his Excellency Edward Lord Vis- 

 count Cornbury and Colonel Francis Nicholson, it was stated, that 

 "There is one independent congregation at Eastchester, whose minister 

 designs to leave there, whose congregation upon his departure are re- 

 solved to join with the Church." a 



Col. Caleb Heathcoate, in a letter to the secretary of the venerable 

 Society for Propagating the Gospel in foreign parts, dated Manor of 

 Scarsdale, November 9th, 1705, thus writes; "and thirdly, one Mr. Mor- 

 gan, who was minister of Eastchester, promised me to conform." 6 



The following extract from a letter of the Rev. John Bartow, rector 

 of the parish of Westchester, to the secretary of the Venerable Propa- 

 gating Society, in 1707, shows most conclusively that the inhabitants of 

 Eastchester finally embraced the Church of England, and accepted him 

 as their minister. 



"My Lord Cornbury requested me to go and preach in Eastchester; 

 accordingly I went, (though some there had given out threatening words 

 should I dare to come,) but tho' I was there very early, and the people 

 had notice of my coming, their Presbyterian minister, Mr. Morgan, had 

 begun service in the meeting-house, to which I went straightway and 

 continued the whole time without interruption, and in the afternoon I 

 was permitted to perform the Church of England service; Mr. Morgan 

 being present, and neither he nor the people seemed dissatisfied, and 

 after some time of preaching there afterwards, they desired me to come 

 often er; and I concluded to minister there once a month, which now I 

 have done for about three years." 



In regard to this conformity of the people of Eastchester to the 

 Church of England, Dr. Howkins says: — "That the population of East- 



a Town Kec. vol. ii, 16, 

 6 Town Eec. vol. i, 29. 



