234 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



a terrible manner, as appears from the following extract taken from the 

 New York Post Boy, of February 6th, 1758: — 



"We have the following most shocking and melancholy account from 

 Eastchester, viz.: — That on Friday morning the 27th of January, Mrs. 

 Mary Standard, aged about seventy years, wife of the Rev. Dr. Thomas 

 Standard, of this place, was found dead on the chimney-hearth of one of 

 the apartments in the house, having her head, the chief parts of both 

 her breasts, with her left arm and shoulder entirely burnt to cinders. It 

 appears that the unfortunate old gentleman and his more unfortunate 

 old lady, had, upon some necessary occasion the evening before, agreed 

 to lay separate; and the Doctor taking his leave, went to bed, leaving 

 his wife sitting before the fire, where, it is imagined, the poor old gentle- 

 woman must either have been seized with a fit, or in rising from her 

 chair, had fallen into the fire, and being undoubtedly rendered unable to 

 move herself, she became the most moving spectacle imaginable to the 

 most affectionate and tender husband, who first discovered her in the 

 morning." 



The Rev. Thomas Standard died at Eastchester, in January, 1760, at 

 the advanced age of nearly eighty, and was buried by the side of his 

 wife, beneath the chancel of the old church on the green. In 18 18, 

 their bodies were removed by order of the Vestry and interred under 

 the communion table of the present ediffce. a 



The Rev. John Milner succeeded Mr. Standard, under the auspices 

 of the Venerable Propagation Society, and was inducted rector of the 

 parish church of Westchester, including the several districts of West- 

 chester, Eastchester, Yonkers and the Manor of Pelham, on the 12th of 

 June, 1761. 



The following extracts from the town records relates to the parsonage 

 lot described in 1695, as "Lying upon the Green in Eastchester:" — 



"At a public town meeting called by the justices of the town to in- 

 quire into several encroachments on lands in said town, held in East- 

 chester, on Monday the 30th day of August, 1762, it was agreed that 

 these men (Jonathan Fowler, Charles Vincent, John Fowler and Joseph 

 Drake,) should regulate the parsonage, and to take a bond of Isaac 

 Lawrence of indemnity, to deliver up the same to the town again at his 

 decease." 6 



It was during Mr. Milner's ministry that the foundation of the present 

 church was laid. In a letter to the secretary of the Venerable Society, 

 dated Westchester, 1 761, he says: — 



a Their remains were found in a good state of preservation, but crumbled to pieces on ex- 

 posure to the atmosphere. Tradition says, that Mr. Standard gave certain lands to the church 

 on condition that the remains of himself and wife should be removed whenever the new edi- 

 fice should be built. 



b Town Records of Eastchester. 



