THE TOWN OF LEWISBORO. 



447 



Westchester County, as they from time to time may deem necessary for 

 the purpose of procuring other lands on which a parsonage house may 

 be more conveniently erected, and for erecting the same. Provided al- 

 ways that the land, so to be sold by virtue of this act, shall not exceed 

 the quantity of fifty acres."* 



The act itself, passed March 1800, read as follows : 



"Whereas the trustees and society of the Presbyterian church and congrega- 

 tion of the town of Salem, in the County of Westchester, have by their petition 

 to the Legislature, prayed for leave to sell, for the benefit of the said church and 

 congregation, certain lands belonging to the said church and congregation, in 

 the town of Salem aforesaid, thereupon : Be it enacted by the people of the 

 State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, that full power, good 

 right, and lawful authority shall be and hereby is granted to the trustees of 

 the said church and congregation to sell, alien in fee, all right and title belonging 

 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 Westchester County, 

 as they from time to time may deem necessary for the purpose of procuring 

 other lands on which a parsonage house may be more conventiently erected, and 

 for erecting the same. Provided always that the lands so to be sold by virtue 

 of this act shall not exceed the quantity of fifty acres. t> 



The following sales were made under this act as appears by the 

 minutes of the Trustees : 



' ' The said Board of Trustees being by law of this State authorized to sell a 

 quantity of land on the old Parsonage not to exceed fifty acres have sold the 

 several quantity's of land to the persons named and for the sums annexed to 

 their names : 



lAOKES. 



ROODS. 

 1 



2 

 3 

 1 



EODS 



28 

 6 



30 

 13 

 36 



9 









To Elisha Avery 



7 

 9 

 1 



8 



7 



2 

 4 



8 



% 



119 

 50 

 12 

 81 

 69 



6 

 13 

 61 



8 

 66 



. 



" Andrew Massey 



81 

 50 



" John Bouton, Meadow... 

 ' ' Joseph Webster 



89 



62 



75 



" Giles Malory 



57 



' ' Nathan Olmstead 





" Samuel B. Isaacs 



— 



1 



48 



1 



27 



$ | 



489 | 



14' 



The following minutes appear principally to relate to the purchase of 

 what is called the old Parsonage farm. "At a meeting of Gould 

 Bouton, James Conklin, Jacob Hayt, Giles Malory, J ames Reynolds and 

 Abijah Gilbert, trustees of the Presbyterian Society held at the house of 



a Laws of New York, 1800, p, 47. 

 b Laws of New York, 1800, p. 4T. 

 c Kec. of Trustees of Presbyterian Church, South Salem, vol. I., p. 21. 



