654 HISTROY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



us, our heirs and successors, erect, make, constitute, declare and create by these 

 presents, and that, by the same name, they and their successors, the minister and 

 members in communion with the said church at New Rochelle aforesaid, for the 

 time being shall and may have perpetual succession, and shall and may be re- 

 sponsible and capable in the law to sue and be sued, to implead and be impleaded, 

 to answer and be answered unto, and to defend, and be defended in all courts 

 and elsewhere, in all and singular suits, causes, quarrels, matters, actions, de- 

 mands and things of what nature and kind soever ; and also, that they and their 

 successors by the same name be and shall be forever hereafter capable and able, 

 in the law, to take, except of, and acquire and purchase, receive, have, hold and 

 enjoy in fee, forever or for life or lives, or for years, or in any other manner, any 

 messuages, buildings, houses, lands, tenements, hereditaments and real estate, and 

 the same to lease or demise for one or more years, or for life or lives, or to grant, 

 alien, bargain, sell and dispose of in fee simple, and also to accept of, take, pur- 

 chase and possess any goods, chattels or personal estate, and the same to have, let, 

 sell or dispose of at their will and pleasure, and all this as fully as any other copor- 

 ation or body politic within that part of our kingdom of Great Britain called 

 England, or in our province of New York, may lawfully do, provided that such 

 messuages and real estate as they for their successors shall have or may be en- 

 titled unto, shall not at any one time exceed the yearly rent of five hundred 

 pounds, over and above the said church and the ground on which the same 

 stands ; and. further, we do will and ordain, and by these presents for us, our 

 heirs and successors, declare and appoint, that for the better ordaining and 

 managing the business and affairs of the said corporation, there shall be one 

 minister of the Church of England as by law established, duly qualified for the 

 care of souls, two church-wardens and six vestrymen, from time to time con- 

 stituted, elected, and chosen for the said church in manner and form as is here- 

 after in these presents expressed; which minister and church-wardens, or 

 any two of them, together with the vestry, or the major part of them 

 for the time being shall have, and are hereby invested with full power and 

 authority to dispose, order and govern the business and affairs of, and con- 

 cerning the said church, and all such lands, tenements, hereditaments, real 

 and personal estate as shall or may be purchased or acquired for the use there- 

 of as aforesaid ; and further, we do will and grant, that the said minister and 

 members of Trinity church at New Rochelle, in the County of Westchester, and 

 their successors, shall and may forever hereafter have a common seal to serve and 

 use, for all matters, causes and affairs whatsoever of them and their successors, 

 and full power and authority to break, alter, change and new make the same, or 

 any other common seal, from time to time, at their will and pleasure, as they 

 shall think fit ; and for the better execution of our royal will and pleasure herein, 

 we do assign, constitute and appoint the said Jacob Bleecker and James de Blez, 

 to be the present church-wardens, and the said David Lispenard, Isaac Guion, 

 Elias Guion, Isaac Guion, junior, Peter Bertain and John Soulice, to be the pres- 

 ent vestrymen of the said church — to hold and enjoy their several offices until 

 the first Tuesday in Easter week next ensuing and no longer. And further our 

 will and pleasure is, and we do for us, our heirs and successors, establish, appoint 

 and direct, that on the said first Tuesday in Easter week next ensuing, and once 

 in every year forever thereafter on Tuesday in Easter week in every year, at the 



