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vaults of Benjamin Ferris, also numerous headstones to the Pell 

 family. 



Beyond the Sunday School building, a short distance south 

 of the church, stood the ancient Orthodox Quaker Meeting House, 

 built in 1723. In 1826 it was changed to Hicksites, after an 

 American Quaker named Hicks. Two years later, the Orthodox 

 built the Friends Meeting House on the opposite side of the Street. 

 Both were destroyed by fire on the same night in the spring of 

 1893. Just beyond flows the Indian Brook, now called Seabury 

 Creek, on whose banks the celebrated George Fox is said to have ad- 

 dressed, in 1672, the first Quaker meeting ever held in America. To 

 the west is the St. Peter's Rectory opposite Glebe Avenue, standing 

 on land forming part of the "Ancient Glebe" given by the town to 

 the church in 1703, and otherwise known as "Parsonage Land." 



On the opposite side of Westchester Road St. Boniface Inn bore 

 the curious inscription : 



No Really Destitute Person need Pass This House Hungry. 



Another landmark of Westchester is the shingle-sided old 

 fashioned house, west of the Westchester Creek Causeway, which 

 was used as a country store where almost anything under the sun 

 could be purchased. Tradition has it that a young man once jocosely 

 asked the storekeeper — Sidney B. Bowne, who was a Quaker, — 

 whether he had a pulpit in stock. The clever shopkeeper winked 

 to his son and said : "If thee will go up in the garret, thee will find 

 Parson Wilkins's old pulpit behind the chimney." 



