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the Governor's approval. This was obtained, and on December 

 6th, a memorable day for Westchester, he was inducted. 



About this time William and Mary vetoed the Act of Separa- 

 tion. Eastchester chafed under his judgment. "Some," said Mr. 

 Bartow afterwards, "had given out threatening words should I dare 

 to come." But one summer Sunday morning in 1703, Mr. Bartow 

 made his appearance in the little shingle-sided meeting house at 

 Eastchester. In the afternoon he performed the Church of Eng- 

 land service, Mr. Morgan himself being present and neither he nor 

 the people seemed dissatisfied. "On coming among them," says 

 Mr. Hawkins, the Secretary of the Propagation Society, "they were 

 so well satisfied with the liturgy and doctrine of the Church of 

 England, that they forsook their minister and conformed to the 

 Church of England." 



To Mr. Bartow's twenty-three years of faithful service both 

 St. Peter's of Westchester and St. Paul's of Eastchester owe their 

 solid foundation. 



The inscription on a tablet, the gift of Morey Hale Bartow, 

 in St. Peter's Church reads : 



"He was a faithful one in Christ. Reverend John Bartow, first Rector 

 of this Parish . . . was sent to America as a missionary and settled over 

 the Parish from November 19, 1702, until his death, at this place, February 

 9, 1726." 



In 1762 the members of the congregation secured from George 

 III. a charter styled, "The Royal Charter of St. Peter's Church in 

 the Borough Town of West Chester." 



In 1790 a much larger and more imposing edifice was erected 

 which sixty-four years afterward was burned to the ground. A 

 third structure met with a similar fate. The present St. Peter's 

 is a modern stone building, imposing, and beautiful. The chime 

 of bells is said to have been presented in the time of Queen Anne. 



The oldest head-stone in St. Peter's churchyard dates back to 

 1702. Some of the prominent families interred there are — Costers, 

 Honeywells, who came to Westchester in 1693 and whose descend- 

 ants are still here. Waterburys, Valentines, Morrises, McNeils, 

 Setons, Simpsons, Wilkins, Hoffmans, Bayards, Desbrosses, Hunts, 

 Boltons, Delanceys, Powells, Lorillards and Bartows. 



Near St. Peter's burying-ground is the Ferris graveyard, also 

 known as the Pasture Hill Burying Ground where are the family 



