THE TOWN. OF HARRISON. 383 



great numbers from Long Island and other places, to hold their meet- 

 ings in the out parts of my parish. It is my constant care, he adds, to 

 watch their movements, and to prevent their seducing any of my 

 parish oners." 



The Friends seem to have met with much acceptance at Mamaroneck, 

 for they built a Friends' meeting house there in 1739, on l an d bought 

 of Sylvanus Palmer. It stood opposite the Munro place, where there is 

 still a Friends' burying ground. About 1774 this meeting house was 

 removed to its present site. a 



The half year meetings of Friends in this region had been held at this 

 meeting house in Mamaroneck. A proposition was made on the eighth 

 day of the twelfth month (December), 1727, to remove the meeting to 

 Rye meeting house, and. discontinue the meetings at Robert Sneathings 

 (apparently in Rye). This was done. 



The first meeting-house built in Westchester County, existed as early 

 as 1723. In that year mention is made of "The Quaker meeting-house 

 in Westchester village." b A monthly meeting was appointed by the 

 yearly meeting of Friends, at Flushing, Long Island, to be held at West- 

 chester, New York, on the ninth day of fourth month, 1725. Not long 

 after we hear of occasional meetings being held at Mamaroneck and 

 Rye, in private houses. One on the 13th of May, 1726, to be held 

 every other month at the house of Jas. Mott ; and another, 1727, was at 

 Robert Sneathings/ 



" In 1742, on the ' eleventh day of first month, (January,) the monthly 

 meeting was transferred from Mamaroneck, to the ' Meeting-House in 

 Rye Woods! This meeting was now held at three places on the main ; 

 alternately at Westchester, Mamaroneck, and Purchase; and subject to 

 it, meetings had by this time been established at New Milford, the Ob- 

 long, and Nine Partners ; d and in 1744, on the eighth day of ninth month, 

 (September,) a proposition was made to establish a quarterly meeting 'on 

 this side' i. e., on the main. Accordingly, the yearly meeting, still held 

 at Flushing, on the thirteenth of fourth month, (April,) 1745, appointed 

 a quarterly meeting to be held at the Purchase." e 



"In 1745, on the eleventh day of fifth month, the meeting appointed 

 Thomas Franklin, ' to get seats to be made rising in the upper part of 



o Baird's History of Eye. % 



b ' Entering of the Highways,' a book of record in the Connty Clerk's office, White Plains, 

 page 3. 



c Rye Records, Vol. B. pp. 227-30. 



d A meeting was commenced at North Castle in If 64, and was held once a fortnight in win- 

 ter. The North Castle meeting-house was built in 1798, in about 1875 it was given up and sold. 



e Records of tfie Society in Harrison. Band's Hist of Rye, p. 354. An addition was made 

 to Friends of Meeting-House, at the Purchase in 1760. 



