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rest of the premises occupied by Mr. Solomon Mead estimated at five pounds 

 and eighteen shillings. 



Rent of the two tenements, £0 4s Qd 

 Rent of land occupied by Mr. Mead, £5 18s 

 Together with three sums of money loaned, the principal sums amount to 

 £85 sd d8. The annual income being the lawful interest which is five 

 pound, one shilling and seven pence per annum. 



Principal £85 9s Id 

 Interest, £5 Is Id 

 In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands this 9th day of May, 

 1798. 



Abi.tah Gilbert, ") ( Jacob Halt, 



Enoch Mead, > ■) Gould Bodton, 



James Conkxin, ) (Giles Moleky." 



Acknowledged before Nathan Rockwell, one of the Judges of the Court of 

 Common Pleas, 9th of May, 1798.* 



In 1800, Judge Abijah Gilbert/ an elder of the Presbyterian Society 

 at Salem, and a member of the State Legislature, obtained an act autho- 

 rizing the Trustees to sell and dispose of certain lands for the benefit 

 of the church and congregation. 



In Assembly, January 30th, 1880. 



A petition of the trustees and members of the Presbyterian church and Con- 

 gregation of the town of Salem in the County of Westchester, praying that a law 

 may be passed empowering the said Trustees to sell a part of the lands, belong- 

 ing to the said congregation, for the benefit of the said church, was read and re- 

 ferred to the members attending this house from the County of Westchester^ 



In Assembly, Feb. 5th, 1800. 

 Mr. A. Smith from the committee to whom was referred the petition of the 

 Trustees and members of the church and Congregation of Salem, in the County 

 of Westchester, reported that they have maturely considered the facts stated in 

 the said petition and believe tliem to be true and are therefore of opinion that the 

 prayer of the petition ought to be granted ; that the committee have prepared a 

 bill for that purpose, and have directed him to ask for leave to bring in the 

 same ; leave being granted, Mr. Smith brought in the said bill entitled, 



lK An act to authorize the trustees of the Presbyterian church and Congregation of the town of 

 Lower Salem to sell and dispose of lands for the benefit of the said church" 



which was read the first time and ordered to a second reading. 



The object of the petition was to enable the petitioners through their 

 trustees to have full power to sell, alien in fee, all right and title belong- 

 ing to the said church and congregation, vested in them as trustees of 

 and in all such lands, situate, lying and being in the town of Salem, in 



a Rfc. of Trustees of Presbyterian church, South Salem, vol. L, p.p. 13 14. 



b Mr. Gould Hawley of Salem (oo the i sstimony ol the late William Watson Wellman of 

 New Haven) was heard to say thai Judge Gilbert went to the Legislature at Albany and ob- 

 tained a grant giving the Presbyterian Society charge and use of the glebe, 



c This petition was probably hied, but, has since been removed.— [Editor. 



