244 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



On a small marble oblisk is the following : 



Sacred 



to the memory of the 



REV. AUGUSTINE P. PREVOST, 



only son of the late Mrs. L. C. Palmer, 



who departed this life 



on the 15th of November, 1843, 



in the 37th year of his age, , 



and the 8th of his ministry, 7 years of which 

 he was Rector of St. John's Church, 

 Cauandaigua, N. Y. 



Rest from thy labors, blessed spirit rest ; 

 Tho' early called, God's ways are always best, 

 Nor need this feeble, partial pen declare 

 What was thy need, or what thy labors were. 

 The poor, the desolate, the bad reclaimed 

 Are mouths for thee, who never wert ashamed 

 To own thy Master's cause before the great, 

 Nor heeded frowns while laying bare their state ; 

 A weeping fiock. children mourn the loss 

 Of their lov'd Pastor. Steadfast on the Cross 

 He kept their gaze — "Watch," was his latest crj r , 



" Neither is he that planteth anything, neither he that ivatereth, 

 But God that giveth the increase." — 1st Cor. 3d chap., 7th verse. 



RECTORES DE EASTCHESTER. 



TEMP. INST. KEOTORES. VACAT. PATRONS. 



19 Nov. 1702, Rev. John Bartow, CI. A. M. pr. mort. War. and Ves. 



8 July 1727, Rev. Thos. Standard, CI. A. M. " " 

 12 June 1761, Rev. John Milner, CI. A. M. pr. resig., " 



3 Dec. 1766, Rev. Sam. Seabury, CI. A. M. " " 



3 Mar. 1799, Rev. Isaac Wilkins, Presb. D.D. pr. mort, 



Apr. 1817. Rev. Ravaud Kearny, Presb. A. M. pr. resig. •' 



1821, Rev. Lewis P. Bayard, " 



14 Oct. 1826, Rev. Lawson Carter, Presb. " " 



9 Aug. 1836, Rev. John Grigg, Presb. " " 

 25 July 1837, Rev. Robert Bolton, Presb. " " 



1 Apr. 1846, Rev. Edwin Harwood, Presb. " " 



22 Aug. 1847, Rev. Henry E. Duncan, Presb. " " 



1 Feb. 1852, Rev. William S. Coffey, Presb., present incumbent. 



The Methodist Episcopal Church in the village of Eastchester was 

 first organized in 1836, and incorporated the same year by the name 

 and title of " The Methodist Episcopal Church in the town of East- 

 chester." Thomas Griffin, Peter Bertine, Josiah Sickles, Nicholas Duff, 

 and Gilbert Underhill, trustees. The church was erected in 1837, and 

 a small parsonage has been added since. 



