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the hereditaments and appurtenances heretofore by the said church 

 occupied or enjoyed, &c." Whatever rights, therefore, the Church pos- 

 sessed prior to the Revolution, were still continued to her by the act of 

 1784. 



Subsequently, however, to the joint action of the trustees "The church 

 appointed three persons to enclose the land set off to the church by the 

 town," as appears from the following resolutions : — 



"At a meeting of the trustees held at the house of Wm. Crawford, on the 12th 

 of March, 1793, it was resolved as follows: — Resolved, that Messrs. Steven Ward, 

 Lancaster Uuderhill and Abraham Valentine, be, and they are hereby authorized 

 and empowered to inclose the land belonging to the church in Eastchester, as laid 

 out and ascertained by trustees chosen on the part of the town of Eastchester, 

 and the trustees of the church, by a board fence on the whole front or north side 

 thereof, composed of one board at the bottom and shtted above, and that the 

 same be of the height of four feet and a half ; and the other parts of said land to> 

 be inclosed by a post and rail fence, or such board fence as aforesaid, and that 

 the said persons complete the same as conveniently as may be, &c." 



" Resolved further, that the above mentioned persons take and receive the 

 profits thereof by plowing for two seasons, any of the said lands, except that 

 within the compass of the burial place, and after that to take the grass growing 

 out of the said land by pasturing and mowing the same, and render an account 

 yearly to the said trustees of such profits, until a full compensation has been 

 made by the use thereof for their trouble and expense in fencing the said land.* 



The presumption is, that the trustees of the church supposing their 

 title to the ground in question, invalidated either by the reorganization 

 of the church in 1787, or of the town in 1788, or perhaps of both, 

 acted as the recipient of the same from the town, and wisely asserted no 

 claim. It is certain that her action in 1792, did not weaken the title 

 she possessed in any land rightfully belonging to her; whilst the effect 

 of the certificate, as declared in the resolution of the town before quoted, 

 was to be forever a bar to any claim on the part of the town to the lands 

 set off. 6 



This church was again incorporated on the 4th of October, 1795, by 

 the style and title of "St Paul's Church in the Town of Eastches- 

 ter," in pursuance of an Act passed for the relief of the Protestant 

 Episcopal Church, on the 17th of March, previous. Upon this occasion, 

 William Popham and Lancaster Underhill were elected church-wardens ; 

 Philip Pell, Lewis Guion, Isaac Ward, John Reed, Isaac Guion, Abra- 

 ham Valentine, William Pinckney and William Crawford, vestrymen. 



a Church Records, commencing A.D. 1T87. 



b See Report to the trustees of the town of Eastchester as to the title to the burying ground 

 attached to St. Paul's chinch at Eastchester, by Renssalaer Ten Broeck, N. Y. 1853. 

 c County Kec. Religious Soc. Lib. A. 10, 11, 12. 



