F 129 . R98 R9 » '^. •W'^ ■V-. '%. '-^'Mi)^^ '>^i^/ ^-^WK^ SERVICES IN COMMEMORATION TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY First Election of Wardens and Vestrymen Parish of Rye, New York, HELD IN THE PARISH CHURCH, THURSDAY, KlilSKUARY 128, 1895. 'UBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE VESTRY. NEW YORK: The Evening Post Job Printing House, 156 Fulton Street, (Evening Post Building.) 1895. T; 7r$ Z3 Cbrt6t'5 Church AT THE TOWN OF RYE, IN THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER AND STATE OF NEW YORK. Ven. Archdeacon WILLIAM W. KIRKBY, D.D., Rector. LECTED IN 1605. GEORGE LANE, JOHN BRONDIGE. Destr^men. JONATHAN HART, JOSEPH HORTON, JOSEPH PURDY, TIMOTHY KNAPP, HACHALIAH BROWN, THOMAS MERRITT, DELIVERANCE BROWN, ISAAC DENHAM. 18 94—18 5. Martens. AUGUSTUS WIGGIN, SAMUEL K. SATTERLEE. Destiiimeu. CLARENCE SACKETT, THOMAS T. SHERMAN, JOSEPH PARK, JAMES M. IVES, GEORGE R. READ, JAMES W. QUINTARD, JUNIUS S. MORGAN, EDWARD H. SCHELL. THOMAS T. SHERMAN, Clerk of the Vestry. prcfator\> 1Wotc. The Vestry of Christ's Church at the Town of Rye in the County of Westchester and State of New York having resolved that the two hundredth anni- versary of the first election on February 28, 1695, of wardens and vestrymen of the Parish, should be commem- orated in some appropriate manner, a committee was appointed to whom the details of the celebration were entrusted. This Committee consisted of the Rector, Ven. Archdeacon William W. Kirkby, D.D., Mr. Augustus Wiggin, warden, and Messrs. James M. Ives and Thomas T. Sherman, vestrymen. Mr. Ives died on January 3, 1895, and Mr. Junius S. Morgan, a vestryman, was appointed in his place. The order of exercises hereinafter mentioned was de- cided upon and carried out on the anniversary day, Thurs- day, February 28, 1895. Much interest was manifested m the event, and the services were largely attended, notwithstanding the incle- ment season of the year. Special invitations were sent to the Bishop of the Diocese, to former rectors of the parish, to the rectors of the seven daughter parishes— Mamaroneck, Bedford, Scarsdale, North Castle, New Castle, White Plains and Port Chester, to the Rev. William Tatlock, D.D., secretary of the House of Bishops ; to the Rev. Thomas Harris, D.D., secretary of the Diocesan Convention ; to the rectors of neighboring parishes ; to the present and former members of the con- gregation of the Church, and to the people of Rye generally. Mr. Richard Henry Warren, organist of the Church, directed the music, the choir being supplemented by members of the cho.rs of St. James's and St. Bartholomews churches. New York City. I„ the following pages will be found cop,es of the .nvitation and programme a full report o the services, and also an appendi.x containing a com- Plete hst of the Rectors, Wardens, Vestrymen, Trustees Treasurers and Clerks of the Parish since its foundation' compiled from the records. /69-5 /S'9-^ ^ (>/f • /v ///:/<- V///, //;<' ^cS /((/// ()/ ' A'Ort/a /f/ , /S^^yo ya/^4 C/ // J ^ . /^ \>i''j //^(///t c // o/ //^ '^ /^ ^^-n^yall Communion at €leben o'docK Cbening ^ra|>er at f)alf pad tEVDO o'tlocfe :: :: :: flDornino pra^cv an? 1[3oI^ Communion glcxicu o^cloch. ^voccssicmat, Hymn 483 Henry Smart ^cuite, ( 8th Tone, ) Plain Song ^SiXXUx, Psalm 132 %csson, Genesis XXVIII ^c ^cxxm ^nxxtXcimxxs, in B flat, C. Villiers Stanford J^postlcs' (J^vccrt ixuxl ©jjUcjcts gntvoit, Hymn 41 8, "St. Ann," Dr. Croft ^x]vU ^itctson, in E flat, (Sloviix Sibi, Alfred J. Eyre ^►iccnc ©vccd, ^ijmix 490 Haydn JitUlvcss by the ^ishop of ^\cxu iTovii ©ffcvtovy Jiuthcm, " Blessed are they," Berthold Tours CJjfJLESSED are they that dwell in Thy house, they will be alway praising Htttj Thee. Blessed is the man whose strength is in Thee; in whose heart ^t' are Thy ways. Who gomg through the vale of misery use it for a well, and the pools are filled with water. They will go from strength to strength, and unto the God of gods appeareth every one of them in Zion. Amen. Sanctus, in E flat. Alfred J. Eyre ^uchixvistic itrjmn, 2 2:^, Rev. J. s . B. Hodges COlovia in g 3fcclsis, Plain Son_!^ 2:^cccssion' charters made by the Crown prior to October 14, 1775, and that none of the said char- ters should be adjudged to be void by reason of non-user or misuser since April 19, 1775. This constitution, therefore, did not annul the charter of 1764 granted to the Church. Notwithstanding the provisions of the Constitution, the Legislature, by act passed April 20, 1784, repealed the act of 1693 and its amendments and supplements, reciting and declaring that by these "acts the inhabitants in the City and County of New York, County of Richmond, West- chester and Queens County, without distinction, have for many years been compelled to pay taxes for the su))port of the Episcopal Clergy in the said counties, contrary to every principle of justice and sound policy " ; that " by colour of such laws, it has been pretended, that the Episcopal Churches were established in the said counties, and claims in consequence thereof have been set up, and prosecutions commenced injurious to the rights and privileges of other denominations, to the great vexation and disquiet of the good people of this State "; that " although the spirit of the said laws are repugnant to the constitution of this State as tending to establish and maintain a particular de- nomination of Christians and ministers thereof, it appears nevertheless, incumbent on the legislature of this State, in order to remove every ground of uneasiness that may arise from such pretended claims in the future, that the said laws should be repealed." On April 6, 1784, the Legislature passed an act provid- ing that the members of religious societies not already established, might elect trustees to take care of their prop- 33 erty and become incorporated and tile certificates of incorporation. Probably this act suggested to the people of our Church at Rye to meet on April 27, 1785, for the parish records show that on that day " the congregation of the Episcopale Church of Rye was called to meet at the house of Mrs. Tamer Haviland, in Rye, and being met together, proceeded to the choice of trustees to take charge of the temporalities of the Church under the Presidency of Mr. Joshua Purdy and Mr. Isaiah Maynard, and then proceeded and unani- mously made choice of John Thomas, Esqr., William Miller, Esqr., Conl. Gilbert Budd, Mr. Joshua Purdy, Mr. John Falconeer and Mr. Isaac Brown as fit persons for the above purpose. Then divided the said trustees into three classes by lot," two in each class. William Miller, Esq., was chosen clerk. There was no expressed intention to incorporate under the Act of 17S4, and no certificate of such incorpora- tion was made or filed. The Churcii was managed by trustees thus chosen until 1788. As there was no rector, the Trustees leased the glebe land and the parsonage, the lessee allowing " part of the house to be used as church and schoolhouse." Thus keeping up an organization, the Episcopalians of Rye retained the name of " Grace Church," and Mr. Andrew Fowler continued to read prayers and sermons in the parsonage and at White Plains on alternate Sundays. Having received a letter from the Rev. Samuel Provoost, rector of Trinity Church, dated April 17, 1786, enclosing the journal of the convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church, held in Philadelphia, in September, 1785, at a meeting of the congregation, held May 5, 1786, "it was unanimously agreed to send dele- gates " to the convention to meet in St. Paul's Church, in New York, on the third Tuesday of May, 1786, and William 34 Miller and Alexander Hunt, Esquires, were elected such delegates. By letter dated September 5, 1787, signed by four trus- tees and twenty "members of Grace Church in the parish of Rye, and County of Westchester," the Rev. Richard C. Moore, son of Thomas Moore and grandson of Colonel John Moore, of New York Cit}^ was invited to accept the rectorship at a salary of £120 per year. Among the signers of this were Peter Jay, son of Peter Jay, the elder; John Thomas, Sheriff of the countv ; James Wetmore, son of the former rector, and Major- General Thomas Thomas. Mr. Moore accepted this call and was rector until October i, 1788, when he resigned. He afterwards became Bishop of Virginia, and died November 11, 1841, in his eightieth year. The charter granted to the church in 1764, although not previously accepted or acted upon, as before mentioned, seems now to have been called into use. The records state that " at a meeting of the members of Grace Church, in the parish of Rye, on Tuesday of Easter week, being the twenty- fifth day of March, 1788, and the day appointed by charter for the election of two wardens and eight vcstrvmen," Peter Jay and Isaac Purd}^ were elected wardens, with eight vestry- men. The church continued to act under this charter until its reincorporation in 1796, as mentioned later, and might have continued to act thereunder until the present time, as Trinity Church, New York, has continued under its old colonial charter. It certainly could have done so with a little legislative amendment, which might easily have been procured, if necessary. It had evidently been previously decided to build a new church, and at the meeting of the members, held March 25, 1788, "upon motion being made for the situation of the Church, now in agitation, it was unanimously determined to place it upon t'le hill, at or near 35 the place where the old ruins stand." This editice was subsequently built of wood, under contract by James Ford, of New York, at a cost of i;i20, the materials being fur- nished by the Church. To save expense, there was to be no steeple, and " it was determined to omit the gallery on the east, by which means the Church will be rendered lighter and the altar more solemn and grand." Tn June, 1788, arrangements were made for the laying of the corner- stone and to have the Rector " compose a discourse suitable to the solemn occasion." This church was probably suffi- ciently completed to hold services in December, 1788, or soon after, and it is still standing on the other side of the Milton Road, where it was moved when the next church was built, and is now used as a dwelling house. The min- utes of the Vestry contain many details with respect to the building of this church and also a ground plan showing the pews, forty-three in number, a list of subscribers and amounts subscribed for the building and the names of the pew-holders with the respective numbers of their pews. There were two square front pews, one of which was given to Peter Jay, and, by unanimous vote of the vestry, "in consideration of the forwardness of the late Mr. Josiah Brown in promoting the building of the church and of his wife being left a widow," the other was allowed to her " by paying only the stated price." The other subscribers had priority in the choice of the other pews according to the respective amounts of their subscriptions. By act of the Legislature, passed March 7, 1788, en- titled '^ An act for dividing the counties of this State into towns," White Plains and Harrison were taken from Rye and made separate towns. The White Plains people, however, continued with our Church until several years later. 30 Tlie parish chuixh of Bcdfc^rd and North Castle was incorporated, April 19, 1789. There was no rector after Afr. Moore's departure, until December 15, 1790, wdien the Rev. David Foote accepted the position at ^100 per year and the profits of the glebe. Of course, money for the support of the Church was no longer raised by taxation, as before the war, and on December 15, 1790, the Vestry "resolved hereafter that collections be made in the church at Rye and the White Plains." This is the first mention of taking a collection in the church which occurs in the parish records, and on May 4, 1 79 1, is the first reference to a treasurer of the Church, when Jesse Hunt, Esq., was appointed to that office, now always so necessary in a church, and, sometimes, so far from being a sinecure. On March 13th of the same year the records first refer to music, when " Messrs. Elijah Purdy and Thi^mas Brown were appointed to settle with Peter Padock for tuning the psalm in Church." In 1792 the Vestry decided to paint the new church as follows; the roof Spanish brown, the sides a light stone color, the window frames white, and the doors a mahogony color. Mr. Foote remained until he died, August i, 1793, and was buried in the old church burying ground. After him came the Rev. John Jackson Sands, called on December 5, 1793. During his term, two important events took place. On January 26, 1794, without any reason now known, the Vestry " Resolved that the Church should be called CJirisfs ChtircJi, Peter Jay to get the seal for the Vestry and to get such a one as he thinks fit." Early in 1794, the parsonage house, then on the west side of the Brook, was burned, and in May, 1794, the Church purchased 37 for /,400, fr(;ni Isaac Doughty, his house and land, which is now known as the " Old Parsonage " property. The house, which has been added to from time to time, was used as a rectory until 1864; since then it has been rented, and this land is now a valuable part of the church property. On September 1 1, 1794, " Mr. Peter Jay made the Church a present of a Seal," a representation of which is upon the invitations for to-day. This seal was adopted as the corpo- rate seal on the subscj uent reincorporation of the Church, and is still its seal. The administration of Mr. Sands not being entirely sat- isfactory, he resigned on May 4, 1796. On Afarch 17, 1795, the Legislature passed " An Act for the relief of the Prot- estant Episcopal Church in the State of New York," which recited that the standing committee of the convention had represented that the act of 1784, before mentioned, for the general incorporation of religious societies," directs a mode of incorporation which exposes it to a variety of difficulties, leaving the congregations not incorporated by Charter, to the alternative of foregoing the benefit of incorporation or submitting to an entire alteration and subversion of the usual and peculiar government of the respective congrega- tions of said Church," and providing for the incorporation of Episcopal churches. Although our Church was then existing under its charter of 1764, and might have con- tinued under it, as heretofore stated, for some reason not disclosed by the records, it was reincorporated under this act, at a meeting duly held for the purpose, on June 7, 1796, when the necessary fornjalities of the incorporation were complied with, Peter Jay and Isaac Purdy being elected wardens, and Joshua Purdy and John Haight, Thomas Brown, John Guion, Thomas Thomas, Gilbert Hatfield, 38 Jonathan Furdy and Nathaniel Piirdy, vestrymen. Monday in Easter week was fixed for the annual election of the Vestry, and "the name and style by which the said church shall be known " was declared to be " Chrisfs Church at the TozvH of Rye, in the County of Westchester and State of Neiv Yorky This church still exists under this incorporation. The more usual name of ''Christ Church" is frequently used, notable instances being the Bishop's certificate of the consecration of the present church and the brass tablet placed in 1874 in the vestibule. It will be noticed that the Vestry last mentioned includes four Purdys. This, how- ever, was not an unusual occurrence, for it happened in the case of at least ten of the old vestries, and in at least two others there were fi\'e gentlemen of this name, or one- half of the Vestr}'. In some years there were two persons named Jonathan Furdy in the same Vestr3^ On or about October 26, 1796, the Rev. George Ogilvie became rector, but he died in a few months, on April 3, 1797, and was buried in the old cemeter}' across the Brook. In this year, 1797, the Vestry adopted an elaborate set of rules for its meetings, one of them imposing fines of 8 shillings for unexcused absence and 4 shillings for being an hour late. The Rev. Samuel Haskell, who graduated at Yale Col- lege in 1790, appeared before the Vestry on August 7, 1797, and accepted their invitation to become rector and to receive the amounts subscribed for his salary for three years, with the parsonage and glebe land. At a vestry meeting on April 18, 1801, it being represented that Mr. Haskell had $750 in hand contributed by Trinity Church, it was re- solved that $20 be paid to Mr. Haskell " for his services in getting the aforesaid sum." Mr. Haskell resigned in April, 1801, and was followed by the Rev. Mr. Evan Rogers, born of Quaker parents and originally ordained a Methodist 39 clergyman, wlio accepted the Vestry's call on January i6, 1802. He was to have, according to the records, $275 per year, with the parsonage land for three years, " for his religious performances as rector," and was not to be bound to attend at White Plains, as none of the subscription for his salary had been raised from that quarter. He was a man of deep piety, and seems to have been very highly es- teemed. Among the old ])apers of the Church is the follow- ing verse by him : " Read Scripture once anrl you can read no more, For all books else appear so mean, so poor, Verse will seem proes; but still persist to read And Scripture will be all the books you need, E. Rogers, Feb. 6, 1806." JNIr. Rogers seems to have been also a very energetic and useful man. He acted as Clerk of the Vestry, and, in 1804, by their direction, wrote out in a fair, neat hand the minutes of the Vestry for several previous years. Appar- ently, he acted also as sexton for a time, for, in May, 1806, the Vestry allowed him "$io for this year for his care in opening, clensing and dressing the Church." At the annual election in 1807, two persons "were chosen clerks of the Church the ensuing year, for the purpose of leading in sing- ing in Church." In Mr. Rogers's time there was friction between Rye and White Plains with respect to the services of the Rector at White Plains and the amount to be raised by that pail of the Parish. This was compromised on April 11, 1805, by an arrangement that the White Plains people should have the " services of the clergyman in proportion to the amounts they shall raise by subscription for that purpose." At the next annual election, however, a resident of White Plains was defeated for warden, and he and four others 40 from that town declined to serve as vestrymen. It was afterwards, in 1808, arranged that the Rector should preach in White Plains one-third of the time. Mr. Rogers died here on January 25, 1809, "extremely lamented," according to his tombstone in the cemetery near Milton. In 1809 Mr. Haskell was called again by the \'estry,and about September of that year, was formally installed rector. He met with success in his ministry, which lasted until his resignation, in May, 1823. Under him the Parish, then commonly called the Parish of Rye and White Plains, flourished and increased. In 1809 ^^^^ pews in the church were altered and rearranged and an annual ground rent imposed upon them. In 18 10 the Vestry discussed the pro- posals of Peter J. Munroe and John P. Delancey to erect an Episcopal church at Mamaroneck, and m 181 1 the Vestry considered the subject of building a chapel at Rye Neck ; but these matters were, in each case, postponed without any action of the Vestry. On April 12, 18 14, however, the present church at Mamaroneck was incorporated, and on June 8, 181 5, the Vestry resolved that it was expedient to dissolve the connection with White Plains, and thus our old parish was cut down to the limits of the town of Rye. A chorister seems to have been first employed in 18 18. The Rev. William Thompson, an Irishman, was called on October i, 1823, and devotedly served a loving con- gregation until his death, August 26, 1830. There is a marble tablet to his memory in the vestibule of the present church. In 1824, during his term, services were held every third Sunday at the school-house, in Saw Pits, now Port Chester. The minutes of the Vestry for the period between October i, 1828, and April 23, 1832, are missing. The Rev. John M. Forbes was rector in 1830, and was 41 followed, in or prior to Ai)ril, 1.S32, by the Rev. Will- iam M. Carmichael, who served until his resignation on July 23, 1834. Mr. Carmichael graduated at Hamilton College ill 1826, originally became a Presbyterian minister, but afterwards entered our Church, Rye being his first parish charge. He had several other parishes; was the author of a number of religious books and pamphlets, and died June 7, 1881, being then a Doctor of Divinity and the oldest presbyter of the Diocese of Long Island. In 1832 Mr. James D. 1 lalstcd, ior many years a vestryman, served as secretary, treasurer and chorister. The Rev. Peter S. Chauncey began his rectorship in September, 1834, with the understanding that the parish duties required of him should l)e a sermon on every Sunday morning, on funeral occasions and on fasts and festivals, the remaining portion of his time to be employed as he thought proper. For the first two years he preached also at Mamaroneck and afterwards at Saw Pits. We first learn of an organ in the church, when the Vestry, on December 3, 1838, voted to raise $50 for an organist, and in 1839 J'^inies Barker gave to the Church, for a bury- ing ground, three acres of land in the front part of what is now Greenwood Union Cemetery. A new bell for the church was purchased in 1842. At a meeting held on May ,23, 1843, ^ committee of live was appointed to build a chapel at Port Chester and present it to the Vestry, to be attached to the Church as a chapel. This chapel was ac- cordingly, built upon land given by William Adee, and at a vestry meeting on July 12, 1844, "Mr. William L. Bush, on behalf of the building committee of St. Peter's Chapel, Port Chester, presented to the Vestry a deed for said chapel and the ground on which it stands, the deed being a joint one from William Adee, Esq., who generously gave the 42 ground," and the building coniiuittcc. The Vestry then ac- cepted the chapel to be attached to the Church. In 1846 the Church, in order to pay some indebtedness, sold its glebe land, comprising about 18 acres, on the west side ol the Brook, for $90 per acre, reserving the old cemetery therein and a right ol way thereto, and in 1847 the land east of the Brook, on which the first parsonage stood, was also sold. Of the Rev. Mr. Chauncey, it is said in Ur. Baird's " I listory of Rye " : " 1 lis graceful manners and dig- nified bearing, his accessibility, his vivacity, ever tempered with the gravity which became his sacred office, won upon the old and upon the young, whilst his imjjassioned oratory engaged all hearts, moi-e especially those of the young." On January 13, 1848, the Vestry adopted resolutions of eulogy expressing " the regret, not only of his own congre- gation, but of this whole community " and accepted the resignation of Mr. Chauncey, to take effect on February i, 1848. On leaving, he presented to the Church a silver com- munion cup, as an expression of his sincere affection and a memorial of his long ministry. A fine oil portrait of Mr. Chauncey, recently presented to the church, now hangs in our vestry room. The Rev. Edward C. Bull next followed as l^ector from May 13, 1849, to May i, 1859, resigning on account of ill health. In his time, the old wooden church built in 1788 was replaced by a stone building consecrated March 15, 1855, by Bishop Wainvvright. In 1852, St. Peter's Chapel at Port Chester was incorporated as St. Peter's Church, and the land upon which it stood was released to it by our Church. The widow of Mr. Bull has recently had painted for and presented to the Church an oil portrait of her husband, which has been also hung in the vestry room. 43 The Rev. John C. White was next called on May 5, 1859, '^"'^ served nntil his resignation on April 1, 1864. This completes the list of our rectors who have passed away — twenty in all, ten of whom finished their earthly labors and were buried here. The longest terms of service were those of Mr. Wetmore, nearly thirty-four years; Mr. Haskell, nearly eighteen years, and Mr. Chauncey, nearly fourteen years. The other rectors, all of whom arc now living, are the Rev. Reese F. Alsop. from November, 1864, to April, 1873 ; the Rev. Chauncey B. Brewster, who came to this, his first parish, in June, 1873, and resigned on February 12, 1882; the Rev. Walter Mitchell, here from April, 1882, to April, 1886, and our present rector, who began his able, energetic and successful work in January, 1887. Of these men, all of great ability and all of the highest rank in their calling, this Parish feels justly proud. It is an honor to have had them with us. Mr. Brewster and Dr. Alsop, each ol whom left liyc in obedience to a call to a larger field of usefulness, by a happy coincidence are now presiding over large and influential adjoining parishes in Brookl3^n, both doing noble work tor the Church. Mr. Mitchell, for many years well known as a profound scholar and an accom- plished writer in prose and verse, resigned to devote him- self to literary work. Of our present Rector, his works speak for him. The nourishing condition of this Parish is his best eulogium. On December 21, 1866, the stone church was burned; and the present edifice, erected on its site, was consecrated on June 19, 1869, by Bishop Horatio Potter. The present Sunday school or parish building was built by generous subscriptions of members of the parish in 1893, and replaces the less commodious one built about thirty years ago. 44 Throiii^h the generosity of a member of the Parish, the vestry room was enlarged in 1893, and to another are we indebted for the new clock and chimes recently placed in the tower. The Church has had many generous gifts, from time to time in its histor}', all of which have been most appro- priate and useful and most heartily appreciated by the con- gregation. Besides the marble tablet to the Rew Mr. Thompson, among other memorials in the church are marble tablets to the Rev. Mr. Chauncey, and to Mr. David Brown, for many years associated with the Church as vestryman and warden ; a metal tablet to Dr. John Clarkson Jay, for twenty-eight years a warden and one of the benefactors of the Church : windows in loving memory of Miss Sarah Adams Bulkley and Mrs. Chauncey B. Brew^ster ; a font presented by the late Mrs. Hay ward in memory of her daughter, and the tile flooring of the chancel given by Mr. John H. Hayward and his sister, Mrs. Augustus M. Halsted, in memory of their mother. Our organ was a recent gift from the late Mrs. George \V. Quintard. We have also communion silver presented by Mrs. Mary Jay in 181 8, and two quaint copper alms basins, given by James Meadow^s in 1769, which were used this morning. As stated before, the present church stands on the site of the first church built in 1706, but the original grounds have been enlarged by additions made from time to time. The new rectory was completed in 1878 through generous contributions of money and land. Among our many causes for rejoicing to-day, is the fact that the Parish is out of debt, and, besides the church grounds and rectory and old parsonage properties, it also owns Grace Chapel (so named in 1877) with its site at Milton, the building given by the late Richard B. Chapman, and the land by the late Gerrit Hubert Van Wagenen, the last Clerk of the Vestry. 45 The existence of the Parish has thus been of four kinds. First, under the act of 1693 and supplementary acts, the justices each year issued their warrant for the election by the freeholders, in January, of the wardens and vestrymen; the justices and vestry then met, fixed the amounts neces- sary to be raised for the minister and for the care of the poor; for the Clerk of the Vestry usually £] per year; for the beating of the drum also £1 per year ; and for the ex- pense of collection ; then apportioned the total among the towns of the parish, fixing the amount or quota for each town, and imposed the necessary tax to raise the total, which tax was collected by the constables. The wardens had the custody and disbursement of the funds. If a town did not pay its quota, the wardens sued the constable charged with the duty of collecting it. This form of gov- ernment continued until the Revolution. The vestry records of the early days are very quaint and interesting, showing in detail in each year the amounts raised and the method of collection and the disposition thereof. There was usually a parish clerk who gave out or "tuned "the Psalms and led the responses at service, and sometimes also acted as drummer. The drum was evidently ver}' effect- ually beaten, as we find that a new one was purchased nearly every year, that bought in 1728, costing 28 shillings. The Justices and Vestry in the olden time, usually met at some house in Rye. In later years the vestry meetings were held in the different towns of the parish. On one occasion, the Vestry adjourned to 9 a. m. on a certain day, and "ordered dnmer on the table " at i P. M. There are many curious minutes of charges paid for the poor, such as an allowance of 12 shillings lor " doctor's stuff " for a sick per- son; 2 shillings "for yj gallon of rum for 3-e Burin of Patrick Holiday " and " to Doctor John Smith for doctor 46 ing Francis Parker ^5, if cured by the first day of May next, if not then cured, then to have but £3-10." In 1775, the Justices and Vestry agreed that the poor of the parish " should be sett at vendue to the highest bidder -::- -;:■ -:<- ^^^f\ ^^i^^ ^\^q Clerk of the Vestry publish adver- tisement for the same," which was done, as appears by this entry, " then put the poor to sale which was struck off as followeth, John McClery to John Lawrence for 6-15 " and others to different persons for various prices. This method of disposing of the poor was reall}' to let the contract for the care of each person so struck off, to the bidder who offered to care for such poor person for the lowest sum. On one occasion, the Vestry " voted a letter to be wrote and sent to Mr. Rettner desiring him to attend at the church and give us a sermon for tryal and to be en- gaged if appioved." He either declined to put himself thus on exhibition or was not approved. At one time, a rector was tried before the Vestry on charges made against him, he, himself, presiding at the trial. Witnesses were called and testified on both sides, those for the prosecution declar- ing that the accused had been "disguised with liquor" on several occasions, one of them being a w'edding ; " that his conversation was insipid," and that, alter the wedding, " he proposed to run horses - * '■' gave the word ' go ' and started his horse [andj rode hard." The witnesses for the defence stated that they had never seen him in liquor, that his company was agreeable, and one said that he had " pressed " the accused " to drink with him and he had re- fused." The presiding officer and accused person then stated that there seemed to be some dissatisfaction with him and offered to resign, which offer was accepted, he, doubtless, putting the question himself. At the meetings of the Vestry in the last century it was often called " this 4Y House " and frequently instead of adjourning-, they " broke up " their meeting'. The second kind of organization was the temporary one, after the Rcvoluti(jn, with trustees, for the years 1785, 1786 and '787. The third was when the Vestry organized and acted from 1788 to 1796, under the charter of 1764; and the fourth is the present corporation, organized in June 1796 and now existing, under the act of 1795 and its amendments. Many good and distinguished men have honored our Church and themselves by service as wardens and vestry- men, and much of interest might be said of them if time permitted. Among them were Roger Park, [\Her Jay, John A. Dix and Benjamin Loder, and, of more recent times, John C. Jay, Edward Schell and James M. Ives. Of Mr. Ives, it is especially fitting that we should pay a pass- ing tribute to his memory so dear to us all, as he was one of the committee appointed to take charge of this celebra- tiorj, in which no one took a deeper and more genume interest, and today, we greatly miss his genial presence and ever- ready and elTective advice and aid. In our rejoicings for the long life and prosperity which have been granted to our old Church, we do not forget our sister, or rather daughter, parishes, and our neighbors of all denominations who have likewise enjo\-ed and are now happy in their well -merited success, and to each and all of them we extend a joyful and cordial welcome and our congratulations, and, in the future, for them all, as well as ourselves, we pray for the blessing and help of God. The Chairman.— The Rev. Dr. Tatlock, from the Diocese of Connecticut, has consented to say a few^ words to us. 48 Address of the Rev. William Tatlock, D. D. 1 appreciate very cordially the courtesy of this invita- tion. I suppose that I am selected to make the first of these informal addresses from the fact that Stamford parish —although I suspect the fact is not known to most of you— is the oldest daughter of Rye parish, and the few words I shall say to you will touch the point simply of the relation of Rye parish to the foundation and the early growth of the Church in Connecticut. All through Connecticut during the Puritan regime, there were men belonging to the Church of England warmly attached to its services and quite restive under the intolerance of the Puritan government. Some of these were in the towns of Stamford and Greenwich. The his- toriographer of the afternoon has rightly said that the Rev. George Muirson was practically the first rector of this parish. He came in the beginning of August, 1705, ten years after the organization of the parish, and was ap- pointed under the mandate of Lord Cornbury, the royal Governor of New York, to be its rector. But before De- cember, within four months after he came to Rye, he had diffused -it has been said here that one character- istic of the parish of Rye has been its diffusiveness-he had diffused himself, not only through the neighboring towns, which were properly part of his cure, but also through the neighboring towns in Connecticut. And he reports, in one of his letters to the Society for the Propaga tion of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, that a number of Church folk in Stamford and Greenwich were in the habit of going over and attending his services in Rye, and that he went over into these places and held services there also, and he lamented, in one of his letters, that so few of the Church people there were communicants and that so many of them were unbaptized. 49 In April, 1706, Lord Cornbury issued his warrant to Mr. Muirson to go into the neighboring colony of Con- necticut, particularly to the towns of Stamford, Stratford and Hartford, to administer baptism to such persons as had not been willing to receive it from any but ordained minis- ters of the Church of England. He did not, however, get as far as Hartford. Now, in reading the history of the Church, we find that Stratford was the seedbed of churchmanship in Connecti- cut, but the earliest church services were held in Stam- ford. Mr. Muirson set out on this missionary incursion into the domain of l^iritanism under the escort of Col. Caleb Heathcote, "fully armed," for the protection of the Church of England i)arson, and, of course, he could not get to Stratford without passing through Stamford. There is a record somewhere ot his holding service and baptizing twenty persons in the towns of Stamford and Greenwich. He went on then to StratfoiTJ, and the history of the planting of the church in Stratford, with its sequel in that memorable incident of the dispute in \^ale College Library between the Churchmen and the l^iritans of the time — I say that incident was an outgrowth of the visit of Muirson to the towns of Stamford and Stratford under Lord Cornbury's warrant. It was in 1732 that Mr. Pigott, the rector of Stratford at that time — for Stratford was organized into a parish probably before Stamford was, though, as I have said, the earliest services held in Connecticut were held in Stamford — Mr. Pigott, the then Rector of Stratford, was largely in- strumental in guiding the thought and reading of Samuel Johnson, of Wetmore — ^James Wetmore, who afterwards became the Rector of R3^e — and other prominent Congrega- tional ministers, into such channels that it resulted in their 50 coming- into the Church of England and taking lloly Orders therein. So that you see the influence of this parish of Rye has not been confined to its own borders, nor to the towns which were originally included in the parish. It has had its share in moulding what I suppose may be called, prop- erly and fairly, the strongest diocese of the Church in the United States, relatively to population. Its influence, there- fore, is fitly acknowledged this afternoon by myself as the representative, not simplv of the parish of Stamford, which gratefully acknowledges its indebtedness for its early min- istrations *o the parish of Rye, but as a representative also of the diocese of Connecticut. The Chairman.— Next prr)bably, in point of time to Stamford is Bedford. We have with us the Rev. Lea Lu- quer, the present Rector of that parish. Address of the Rev. Lea Luquer. Two days before I received a formal invitation from the Vestry to attend this celebration, I had a note from my friend, the Rector of this church, asking me to be present as the representative of Bedford, a daughter parish. I beg leave to correct my brother and remind him that Bedford is not a daughter parish, but a sister parish. It formed part of the original precinct of Rye, Mamaroneck and Bed- ford. That act of 1693, under which the Province of New York was divided into church precincts, was a very singu- lar act. It was suggested to the Assembly by Governor Fletcher, an ardent Churchman, an Englishman, who de- sired very strongly to establish the English Church in the Province of New York. He was appointed Governor a few months after the Leisler disturbance in the city — I will not call it a rebellion, because Leisler thought he .had a 51 ri^ht to assume the reins of government— he was unjustly condemned and hung. You can imagine there was a very strong party feeling in New York, the city then embrac- ing the Dutch, the Huguenots, the French, Portuguese and very few English. It was a cosmopolitan city at that time ; eighteen languages were spoken in the city, small as it was then, for it embraced not more than five or six thousand people. New York, two hundred years ago, was bounded on the north by the stockade in Wall street, where stood two stone bastions to guard it. New ^'()rk only extended that far in those days, and Governor Fletcher, with the advice of Heathcotc, determined to establish the English Church in this community, where there were so very few members of the Church of England. He met with decided opposi- tion. Col. iMorris writes in 171 1 to the secretary of the venerable Society for the Pro[)agation of the gospel, " The Act to settle the Church [this Act of 1693] is very loosely worded, which, as things stood then, when it was made, could not be avoided, the Dissenters themselves claiming the beneht of it as well as we, and the act will admit of a construction in their favor as well as ours. They think it was intended for them and them only." And in this very communication he continues, " I believe the Church at this day would have been in a much better con- dition had there been no act in her favor, for, in the Jerseys, in Pennsylvania, where there is no act in her favor, there are four times the number of churchmen than there is in the Province of New York, and they are so, most of them, on principle." That province of New Jersey was under a Roman Catholic governor. The Church of England could not grow in this country until it was separated from the State. The growth of our Church properly dates from the Revolutionary War, when we were freed from tb.e State Government and became members of this Church on principle. In this Vestry, chosen in 1693, there were two repre- sentatives from Bedford, and in Bedford this act met with decided resistance. There was one Zachariah Roberts, a jus- tice of the peace, who swore he would burn every prayer book and drive out of town ever}- one who tried to use it; and you can imagine what opposition the Church had to en- counter there. They manifested this opposition because the prayer book was to them the symbol of a hierarchy, under whose tyranny they had suffered in England. I belong to this Church not because it is the English Church, but be- cause it is the American Church — the Catholic Church. We have a service that we love, made up of prayers that have been in use for hundreds of years before the Refor- mation. We have a historical episcopate that can go far back before the time of the Reformation, and we love this Church. We respect its government, for it is a representa- tive government. The laity have a voice in the election of their ministers and their bishop, and we can see the grow- ing power of this Church since it is no longer connected with the State. I am here, as the Rector of Bedford Church, to congratu- late you upon your prosperity under God's blessing, and, as I heard the grand and inspiring music, I could not help won- dering what those Dissenters would have said, two hundred years ago, if they had heard the praises of God sung as we have heard them to-day. The Chairman. — We come now to introduce to you three of the latest rectors of your parish. They do not need introduction. They are too well remembered, too highly honored, too dearly loved, to be forgotten. 53 It happened when I first came to be Rector of White Plains that the Rev. Mr. Alsop was the Rector of Rye. I shall never forget his kindly greeting or his gracious cour- tesy, and it gives me great pleasure to introduce to 3'ou, not your old leader, but your late Rector, the Rev. Dr. Alsop, Archdeacon of Brooklyn. Address of the Rev. Ref.se F. ALSor, D. D. I need not tell those of you who knew me when T was Rector of this Church, that it gives me pleasure to be here. It always gives me pleasure to be in Rye, and it ahva3'S gives me added pleasure to be in this church. It is sometimes said that we do not recognize our good days when they are passing over us, or when we are passing through them. It was not so with me. 1 look back now to the eight years I spent in Rye as almost my halcyon days, and 1 knew then that they were. When I listened to a call to another field in the smoky cit}' of Pittsburg, where I hoped I should be able to do a larger work among the working people, T felt, and I said to some of my friends here, that 1 realized that 1 was leaving behind me the more pleasant work to strike into the harder. I know now that I said the truth. This church is to me more than dear. I watched its every stone. 1 saw every beam put in place. From the time that the foundations were begun, up to the time when the top of the steeple was put in place, I was here almost every day, watching it, interested in it, rejoicing in it, and delighted when it was finished. It was my privilege as the Rector to be here when it was consecrated, and I look at it to-day, made more beautiful by interior decorations, but still practically the same church, and, if I dare make such a remark, I should say that I should be content to have no other monument. Yet it took the place of a very beau- 54 tiful building, and, perhaps, the most vivid memory of my rectorship is the destruction of that former building. It, too, was a stone church, the third building of the Parish. I never shall forget when 1 first saw its picture. Two men whose memory is blessed, who are among the benefactors and supporters of this church, John C. Jay and Benjamin Loder, appeared in my little parish in Massachusetts one very rainy day. They listened to my young lucubrations in the morning and in the evening, and, after the evening service, they came into the vestry room. They told me they were a committee from Christ's Church, Rye, appointed with power to call a rector, and they extended to me the call. I remember it was with a peculiar pleasure that Dr. Jay took out of his pocket a little photograph of the church, and said, " There is the church," believing that the sight of that building, such a beautiful and appropriate stone church, would have no little influence in deciding me that I would better come. When 1 came, there was some debt remaining on the church, and, I think it was the second year that 1 was here, a movement was made to remove the debt, and without any very great endeavor, the money was raised and the debt paid. Then, as the church had stood a number of years, it was decided we should beautify it and put it in perfect order. The organ had stood in the west gallery, and an addition to the north of the chancel was built. The organ was moved down, the woodwork all through the church was varnished, and everything was put in perfect order. It was just before Christmas time, and I remember, as I stood in the aisle, just as the sun was sinking and the light came through the western window, I looked through the church, and said, ' What a beautiful, what an almost ideal, little church this is." I made that remark to some one 55 standing by mc. That evening \vc were gathered, quite a company, dressing the church for Christmas, when, all at once, a gentleman appeared at the door and cried, " The church is on fire I" In three minutes it was demonstrated that it would be impossible to extinguish it, and the word was given. " Save what you can of the furniture!" In a little while we stood outside, and in the clear, cold winter night we saw the church burn. The next morning there were onlv the ruins. We, fortunately, had our Sunday- school building, to which wc adjourned, and there w^e held our services and in [jart existed for the next nine or twelve months. In the meantime, funds were gathered to rebuild, and we succeeded, by God's blessing, in putting the present church here, and I want to congratulate those who were working with mc at the time, upon the success of that effort and the success which has followed the church in all its his- tory since. The Chairman.— The next Rector in course of time, is the present Rector of Grace Church, Brooklyn. I think the unkindest thought— and T suppose the congregation of Rye really sympathizes in this thought— the unkindest thought we have ever had of him w^as, perhaps, faulting him for leaving the diocese and the rectorship of Rye. We al- ways esteemed him highly and have missed him since he left. I introduce to you the Rev. Chauncey B. Brewster, of Brooklyn. Address of the Rev. CiiAUNCEY B. Bke\yster. As I listened to the interesting and able history read by the Clerk of the Vestry, I could not help thinking how much history, after all, there was that could not be told in any words. I could not help thinking that there was not merely 5(J the history of the institution, not merely the history of the fabric of this outward material, but how much history of the personal that cc^uld never be put into words. Standing- here to day, memories throng upon me of cer- tain later chapters in that long- story, chapters which I was more familiar with, the dear, the brief, the forever remem- bered. What memories crowd upon me of those whom we can see no more : the serene saint, the radiant maiden, young men in their strengtii, men full of years and honors, little children, all one with us in the communion of saints. " Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord, even so saith the spirit, for they rest from their labors"; and their works, what they did, and what God did through them and by them, are this day had in remembrance, the noble works that God did in their days and in the old time before them. But I turn from such thoughts and to you who still are here. To the Rector, Wardens and V^estrymen of this Parish, mother of saints, mother of parishes, I beg to express my heartiest congratulations upon this anniversary and upon your prosperity, a prosperity which has never been exceeded in all the long history of this Parish. 1 well remember, on the occasion of my first visit to Rye, that the then clerk of the vestry seemed to think that the greatest sights he could show me were the places here and there where the old rectors were buried. I got a general impression that old rectors were strewn all about this region. But, my friends, 1 congratulate you all upon the fact that, certainly to-day, you have a live rector! He calls himself "venerable," and yet, out of all the long list of rectors, I believe he is the youngest of us all I And it seems to me that he is a kind of parable of this Parish. This Parish, too, is venerable and yet with strength still equal to the time, venerable, as on this day, with the 57 majesly of centui'ics upon her, and \-ct her natural force not abated, bringin^^ forth fruit in her age and, in these latter days, even renewing her youth. In these moments of reminiscence, there comes to me what was said to me by an aged man whom many of you knew and revered, long a warden of this Parish. He was a plain farmer, and he one day said to me, in the unconscious poetry of a homely figure, that to hear the church bell was like the sound of the dinner horn borne to the ears of a hungry man away in the held. May many, many come here in the time to come, as in the days that are past, hungering and thirsting, and here hnd the bread of life and the water of life. What has not this Parish been to souls in all these years of the past I What, by God's blessing, may this Parish be to souls in the time to come I I pray that this fair house of the Lord standing, as that of old in Jerusalem, on its unmoved hill of rock, with its spire rising in sight of all the country round, bearing aloft the cross to tell of the Saviour's love and point men upward, long may be here a land-mark. May this house of God be to many sons and daughters of men a dear and precious home, a central spot for their affections and their lives! Hither, in the time to come, may many hearts yearn with a tender and holy home-sickness ! And hither, as the years shall roll on into other centuries, may the tribes come up, even the tribes of the Lord, to testify and give thanks unto the name of the Lord ! The Chairman. — I am sure this day, in its celebration, would be quite incomplete if we did not hear a word in closing from the present Rector of this venerable Parish. Two hundred vears ago, and in the alter history, we were indebted to the Church of England for many a blessing, for the blessing of the gospel; and in the present Rector, able, 58 wise and vii^oroiis, \vc arc indebted ai;"ain to the Church of England, who, among the other things she has given us, is a true missionary spirit in the ministry of the word. We are proud, if I may use that word, in the Diocese of New York, of my good brother, whom this Parish has honored, and who honors this Parish, in this vigorous rectorship. The clergy are at one in wishing him joy to-day, and even larger fruitage than he has had S(j far in his rectorship, in material advantages, and, better still, in the fruitage of souls for Christ. We do want to hear a word from Dr. Kirkby before we leave the Parish. Addi-ess of the Ven. Archdeacon William W. Kirkby, D.D. My Dear Brethren,— It need only be a few words that i say to you this afternoon. You can well imagine how filled with joy my heart is, and how, out of that fulness, the tongue would fain speak. But, at this late hour, my words must be few. The first thought must surely be that of gratitude to God for all his goodness in the past, and to-day. A quarter of a century of life in the wilderness would not seem to be an apt preparation for the charge of such a parish as this. Yet the same gracious help given to me there has been con- tinued here; and ungrateful would it be in me, not to acknowledge His great, loving kindness. One has only to follow the leadings of God's providence to find himself in the right place and happy. Next, I would respectfully and warmly thank the Bishop for his helpful presence with us this morning, and for the kind words he then said. Thanks are due also to the Arch- deacon, the visiting clergy and others who are with us this 59 afternoon. We will not quarrel with Mr. Luquer as to whether Bedford should be called a " sister " or a " daughter " parish. Rather would I thank him and the other brethren for the words of loving sympathy so kindly spoken. We have heard a good deal, this afternoon, of the ■ Puritan element in this County and in this Parish. We do well to remember this one fact, that the Church of England was the pioneer in this land. Wherever the Government sent an expedition, there the Church sent her priest. In this way, the Church lead the way in X'irginia, in Massa- chusetts, the Carolinas, and even on the western coast. Then came the great disaster in England, the Church and the Government fell together. The triumph of the Puritans was complete. It was their day of opportunity and they wisely pushed their conquests as far as possible. The poor Church and her missions were in abeyance. But, during this time, there were doubtless many clergymen of the Church in the country and hereabouts. Some of these may have held occasional services in this Parish before 1695, and between that time and the settlement of the first rector here in 1705. We have heard to-day a good deal said of New York, and have been told that two hundred years ago, it was a very small place. Yet two hundred and twenty years ago, lived there a governer who, in his day, called it an ancient city. Dates and ages are apt to confuse one. Two hundred years is a long time in the life of this country. It is worth thinking about in the age of England. Two hundred years would take us back nearly to the time of the great fire and plague of London ; and quite to the time of the building St. Paul's Cathedral and the founding of the Bank of England. We are accustomed to think of these things 00 being done ages ago, and yet they are but as old as tliis Parish. When Sir Christopher Wren was building that mother church of England, this Parish was formed. To some of the young men here, I have put this question, suppose one of the elected vestrymen in 1695 had placed one dollar that year in the newly formed Bank of England and left it to grow there at compound interest, iiow much would the amount be to-day? The answer has not come, and I am not able to tell myself. My thought is that it would be over a million dollars, so great is the power of littles. 1 am ready and willing to-day, to give twenty-five to be invested in a similar way until it shall reach a sum suf- ficiently large to endow the organistship of this church, unless some generous man here now should think tlie lime for this small simi to grow will be too long, and so hasten it by a gift of sio,ooo. That would be a grand finish to the interesting services of this memorable day. God grant that it may come to us, and I have faith to believe it will. This done, the V^estry would always be able to maintain a first-class choir. With such an organ, we ought to have an able man to have charge of the music. I have now only to offer my sincere thanks to the Organist, Choir and to all who have in any way contributed their share in making the happiness of the day so great. And, as we began, so let our thought and gratitude go to Him from whom are all blessings. May we all realize our stewardship and be faith- ful in His service. 1 thank you all very much for your attendance here to-day. BppcnMr* IRcctors of tbc parisb of 1R\?e, Thomas Pritchard, April, 1704, to 1705; died. George Muirson, July 31, 1705, to October 12, 1708; died. Christoi'HER Bridge, October 17, 1710, to May 22, I7i9;died. Robert Jenney, June 7, 1722, to May 19, 1726; resigned. James Wltmore, June 7, 1726, to May 15, 1760; died. Ebenezer Punderson, November 21, 1763, to September 22, 1764; died. Ephraim Avery, September 9, 1765, to November 5, 1776; died. Richard C. Moore, September 5, 1787, to October i, 17S8; resigned. David Foote, December 15, 1790, to August i, 1793; died. John Jackson Sands, December 5, 1793, to May 4, 1796; resigned. Gkorge Ogilvif, October 26, 1796, to April 3, 1797; died. Samuel Haskell, August 7, 1797, to April, 1801: resigned. Evan Rogers, January 16, 1802, to January 25, 1809; died. Samuel Haskell, February 25, 1809, to May, 1823; resigned. William Thompson, October i, 1823, to August 26, 1830; died. John M. Forbes, 1830— 1831; resigned. William M. Carmichael, 1832, to July 23, 1834; resigned. Peter S. Chauncev, September 8, 1834, to February i, 184S; resigned. Edward C. Bull, May 13, 1849, to May i, 1859; resigned. John Campbell White, May 5, 1859, to April i, 1864; resigned. Reese F. Alsop, November 27, 1864, to April, 1873; resigned. Chauncey B. Brewster, June, 1873, to February 12, 1882; resigned. Walter Mitchell, April, 1882, to April 28, 1886 : resigned. William W. Kirkdv, Januiry i, 1S87; Now Rector. Clerks of tbe l^estrw JosK.rH Cleator, 1710-1720. John Cakhaktt, 1 721-1743. Samuki. PiKUY, 1 744-1 753. Job Hadden, 1753. Gilbert Bloomer, 1754-1761 ; i7'j3-i775, Timothy Wetmork, 1762; 1776. William Miller, 17S5-17S7. Richard C. Moore, 17SS. Jesse Hunt, 1788, 1789. EzRAHiAH Wetmoke, i-]i)o ; 1794-1796. David Foote, 1791-1793. Isaac Smkken, 1797-1806. Evan Rocers, 1807, 1808. David Rogers, Jr., 1809, 1810; 1812-1816. William T. Provoost, iSii ; 1817: 1820-1822 William Bush, 1818, 1819. Henry L. Penfield, 1823-1S28. James D. Halsted, 1832, 1833; 1835-1845. Read Peck, 1834; 1849-1851. John Brooks, 1846-1848. William R. Talbot, 1852-1854. George R. A. Ricketts, 1S55-1857. Augustus Wiggin, 1858-1864. Benjamin S. Olmstead, 1864-1868. Edward D. Webb, 1869-1872. Gerrit H. Van Wagenen, 1873-1892. Thomas T. Sherman, i 893-1 895 — Novi^ Clerk. XIreasurcus. f;sse Hint, 1791. AMKs D. Halstei), 1S32. KSSK Pl'RDY, 1834. OIIN H. OSBORN, IS35-1S39. AMKS StEHBINS, I84O-1S45. (.UN C. Jay, 1846, 1847; 1852-1866. Read Peck, 184S-1851. Robert S. Havwakk, 1S67-1S74. Thomas B. Peck, 1S75-1879. Lk Grand N. Densi.ow, 1883. Clarence Sackett, 1887-1889. AcGUSTi-s WiccjiN, 1880-1882 ; 1884-1886 ; 1890-1895 ; Now Treasurer. Marbcne, l^cetr^incn, trustees an^ Clcrf^e* 1695. ITardriis : George Lane, John Brondige. Vcstryiiicn : Jonathan Hart, Joseph Horlon, Joseph Purdy, Timothy Knapp, Ilaclialiah Brown, Thomas Merritt, Deliverance Brown, Isaac Denham. 1696-1702, No Record. 1703. Warden.^: Colonel Caleb Ileathcote, Justice Joseph Theall. Vestry- men : Justice Joseph Purdy, Justice Mott, Captain Joseph Horton, Deliverance Brown, Hachaliah Brown, George Lane, Sr., Thomas Purdy, Thomas Disbrow, Isaac Denham, Samuel Lane. 1 704-1 7 10. No Record. 171 1. ]\'iirdciis : Capt. Joseph Tlieall, Capt. Jonathan Hart, Cornelius Seely. Vestry nwn : Andrew Coe, John Merritt, Sr., Daniel Purdy, Cordwainer; Thomas Purdy, Thomas Merritt, Jr., George Lane, Jr., Joseph Lyon, George Kniffen, John Disbrow, Mamaroneck ; John Miller, Bedford. Clerk: Joseph Cleator. 1712. Wardens: Capt. Joseph Hudd, Justice Isaac Denham. Vestrymen : John Haight, Thomas Merritt, Sr., John Frost, Robert Bloomer, Jonathan Haight, David Ogden, John Brundige, Joseph Cleator, John Disbrow, Mamaroneck ; John Miller, Bedford. Clerk : Joseph Cleator. 1713. //'(?;-(/(«j: John Brundige, Jonathan Miller. Vestrymen: Andrew Coe. John Sloakham, Sr., Daniel Purdy, Sergt. ; George Lane, Jr., Nathan Kniffen, Thomas Purdy, Samuel Hunt, Nicholas Conkling, Nehemiali Palmer, John West- coate. Clerk : Joseph Cleator. 1714. Wardens: John Brundige, David Ogden. Vestrymen : John Haight, Nathaniel Sherwood, Thomas Merritt, Jr., Isaac Denham, Deliverance Brown, Jr., Ebenezer Theall, John Disbrow, of Rye; Daniel Lane, Stephen Clauson, Silvanus Palmer. Clerk : Joseph Cleator. 1715. Wardens: David Ogden, Moses Knapp. Vestrymen : Justice John Haight, Justice Isaac Denham, Ebenezer Theall, Thomas Merritt, Jr., Samuel Purdy, John Horton, Richard Ogden, Samuel Lane, Silvanus Palmer, Richard Westcoate. Clerk : Joseph Cleator. 1716. Wardens : Moses Knapp, Jacob Haviland. J'estrymen : Caleb Hyatt, Samuel Lane, Daniel Purdy, Sr., Jacob Cornell, Robert Bloomer, Sr., John Dis- brow, of Rye; Sergt. Thomas Merritt, Sr., John Frost, Jonathan Miller, John Bloomer. Clerk : Joseph Cleator. 1717. Wardens: Jacob Haviland, Capt. Henry Disbrow. Vestrymen: Humphrey Underbill, Jonathan Haight, Daniel Purdy, Sergt.; Justice Isaac Denham, Nicholas Conkling, William Fowler, George Lane, Samuel Lane, Poly- carpus Nellson, Richard Westcoate. Clerk : Joseph Cleator. 65 I7i8. iyanA;!s: Henry Disbrow, George Lane. V^s/r^^men: Jonathan Haight, Caleb Hyatt, Samuel Lane, Timothy Knapp, John Disbrow, Daniel Lane, Joseph Green, Joseph Horton, Eleazer Gedney, John Miller. C/erk: Joseph Cleator. 1719- ^Vardens : Ebenezer Theall, George Lane. J 'esirymen : Justice John tiaiglit, Robert Bloomer, Caleb Hyatt, Moses Knapp, Henry Fowler, Joseph Lyon, John Brundige, David Ogden, John Disbrow, Zachaiiah Mills. C/erk : Joseph Cleator. 1720. Wardens : J„hn Ilaight, Isaac Denham. Vestrymejt : Jonathan Haight, Samuel Lane, S.imuel Purdy, Abraham Miller, Joseph Horton, Henry Fowler, George Lane, Daniel Brundige, Jonathan Kniffen, Jonathan Miller, Clerk: Joseph Cleator. 1721. IVardens : Samuel Purdy, Jonathan Haight. Ve:lrymen : Ebenezer Theall, Joseph Lyon, Daniel Purdy, Abraham Miller, Ebenezer Kniffen, Richard Ogden, Henry Fowler, William Fowler, Peter Brown, Jonathan Miller. Clerk : Joseph Cleator. 1722. IVaidens: Samuel Purdy, Capt. Henry Fowler. J'eslrymen : John Haight, John Horton, Robert Bloomer, David Ogden, Ebenezer Kniffen, Ensign Daniel Purdy, Benjamin Brown, Isaac Covert, Jonathan Miller, Polycarpus Nell- son. C/i,n : Jo^luia Purdy, David Brown, David Rogers, Jr., Samuel Armour, Roger Purdy, Samuel Mar- vin, Nehemiah Purdy, Roger Park. 67, v/- : Evan Rogers. 1508. Wardens : John Guion, Jonathan Purdy. I'eslrynun : Roger Puidy, David Brown, Joseph Park, David Rogers, Jr., Nathaniel Penfield, Roger Park, Gilbert Brown, Elias Purdy. Clerk : Evan Rogers. 1809. Wardens: John Guion, Jonathan Purdy. ^'eslryine^t: Roger Pardy, Gilbert Brown, Roger Park, Elias Purdy, William T. Provoost, David Brown, Dr. David Rogers, Jr., Joseph Park. Clerk: David Rogers, Jr. 1810. /Fara't'WJ .• John Guion, Jonathan Purdy. I'estrymen: Gilbert Brown, Hachaliah Brown, Roger Purdy, David Rogers, Jr., Elias Purdy, Joseph Park, Roger Park, William T. Provoost. Clerk : David Rogers, Jr. 181 1. /F^fjrr/f;;.!.- John Guion, Jonathan Purdy. Vtstrymen: Gilbert Brown, Roger Park, Elias Purdy, Thomas McCollum, William T. Provoost, Roger Purdy, David Rogers, Jr., Gerihom Bulkley. Clerk : William T. Provoost. 1512. //'(/rtAv/j .• John Guion, Jonathan Purdy. Ves'rynten: Gilbert Brown, Joseph Strang, Elias Purdy, Thomas McCollum, Thomas Halsted, William T. Provoost, David Rogers, Jr., Gershom Bulkley. Clerk : David Rogers, Jr. 1513. Wardens: John Guion, Jonathan Purdy. Vestrymen: Elias Purdy, Gershom Bulkley, Joseph Strang, Thomas Halsted, Thomas McCollum, William T. Provoost, Gilbert Brown, David Rogers, Jr. Clerk: David Rogers, Jr. 1814. Wardens: John Guion, Jonathan Purdy. Vestrymen: Gershom Bulkley, Gilbert Brown, Thomas McCollum, Elias Purdy, Thomas Halsted, Henry Penfield, Joseph Strang, David Rogers, Jr. Clerk : David Rogers, Jr. 7'd 1815. Wardens: John Guion, Jonathan Purdy. Vestrymen: Geishom Bulkley, Thomas Halsted, Elias Purdy, Thomas McCoUum, Gilbert Brown, David Rogers, Jr., William T. Provoost, Thomas Purdy. Clerk: David Rogers, Jr. 1S16. Wardens: John Guion, Jonathan I'lirdy. I'estryinen : Gershom Bulkley, Gilbert Brown, Thomas Halsted, Elias Purdy, David Rogers, Jr., Thomas McColluni, William T. Provoost, Thomas Purdy. Clerk: P)avid Rogers, Jr. 1817. Wardens: John Guion, Jonathan Puidy. VestryDien : Gershom Bulkley, Gilbert Brown, Thomas Halsted, Thomas Purdy, Elias Purdy, Thomas McCollum, William T. Provoost, David Rogers, Jr. Clerk : William T. Provoost. 1818. Wardens: John Guion, Jonathan Purdy. Vestrymen : Gilbert Urown, Jonathan Purdy, William Bush, Jesse Jarvis, Gershom Bulkley, Abraham Guion. Thomas Purdy, Elias Purdy. Clerk : William Bush. 1819. Wardens: John Guion, Jonathan Purdy. Vestrymen: Dr. G. C. Bayley, Abraham Guion, Elias Purdy, Jesse Jarvis, William Bush, Hachaliah Brown, Nehemiah Purdy, Jr., William T. Provoost. Clerk: William Bush. 1820. Wardens: John Guion, Jonathan Purdy. Vestrvmm: Dr. G. C. Bayley, Abraham Guion, Elias Purdy, Nehemiah Purdy, Jr., Capt. William T. Provoost, William Bush, William Bulkley, Thomas McCollum, Clerk William T. Provoost. 1821. Wardens: John Guion, Capt. Jonathan Purdy. Vestrymen: Abra- ham Guion, Elias Purdy, Jr., Nehemiah Purdy, Jr., William Bush, William Bulk- ley, Jonathan Purdy, ot' Rye, Dr. G. C. liayley, Capt. William T. Provoost. Clerk: William T. Provoost. 1822. Wardens: John Guion, Capt. Jonathan Purdy. Vestrymen: Abraham Guion, Gabrael Purdy, Nehemiah Purdy, Jr., William Bush, William Bulkley, Belden Bent, Isaac Purdy, Capt. William T. Provoost. Clerk: William T. Pro- voost. 1823. Wardens: John Guion, Jonathan Purdy. Vestrymen: William Bush, Abraham Guion, Roger Park, Belden Bent, Isaac Purdy, Nehemiah Purdy, Henry L. Penfield, William Bulkley. Clerk : Henry L. Penfield. 1823. December i. David Brown, elected Warden in place of John Guion, deceased. 1824. Wardens: Capt. Jonathan Purdy, David Brown. Vestrymen: Abra- ham Guion, Roger Park, William Bush, Henry L. Penfield, Samuel Purdy, Isaac Purdy, John Osborn, James Guion. Clerk: Henry L. Penfield. 1825. Wardens: David Brown, Hachaliah Brown. Vestrymen: Abraham Guion, Roger Park, William Bush, Henry L. Penfield, Samuel Purdy, Isaac Purdy, John Osborn, Michael Moore. Clerk: Henry L. Penfield. 1826. Wardens: David Brown, Hachaliah Brown. Vestrymen: Samuel 74 Purdy, Roger Park, Henry I>. Penfield, Michael Moore, William P)usli, John Osborn, Abraham Guion, Peter Guion. Clerk: Henry L. Penfield. 1827. Wardens: David l>rown, Hachaliah Brown. Vestrymen: Samuel Purdy, William Bush, Abraham Guion, Henry L. Penfield, Roger Park, John Osborn, Michael Moore, Josiah Purdy. Clerk: Henry L. Penfield. 1828. Wardens: David Brown, Hachaliah Brown. J'estrvwen: William Bush, Roger Park, Samuel Purdy, Henry L. Penfield, John H. Osborn, Jesse Purdy, Abraham Guion, Andrew Clark. Clerk: Henry L. Penlield. 1S29, 1S30, 1831. No records. 1832. Wardens: David Brown, Hachaliah Brown. J^eslrymen: David Brooks, William Bush, Samuel Purdy, John H. Osborn, Josiah Bulkley, James D. Halsted, Jesse Purdy, William Smith. Clerk : James D. Halsted. 1833. Same as 1832. Clerk: James D. Halsted. 1831. Wardens: David Brown, Samuel Purdy. J^estrymen: William Bush, John H. Osborn, Jesse Purdy, Howell Clark, Samuel A. Provoost, Read Peck, William Bulkley, Samuel Haviland. Clerk : Read Peck. 1834. November 22. Josiah Bulkley elected z'^^.f/ryw^w in place of William Bulkley, resigned. 1835. JVardrns: Hachaliah Brown, Josiah Bulkley. J'eslryiiien: William Bush, Samuel Haviland, David Brooks, William Smith, Howell Clark, John II. Osborn, Jesse Purdy, James D. Halsted. Clerk: James D. Halsted. 1836. Wardens: Hachaliah Brown, Josiah Bulkley. Vestrymen: William Bush, John H. Osborn, David Brooks, William Smith, Samuel Haviland, Jesse Purdy, Howell Clark, James D. Halsted. Clerk : James D. Halsted. 1837. Wardens; Hachaliah Brown, Josiah Bulkley. Vestrymen: William Bush, John H. Osborn, Jesse Purdy, David Brooks, Samuel Haviland, William Smith, James Stebbins, James D. Halsted. Clerk : James D. Halsted. 1838. Same as 1837. Clerk: James D. Halsted. 1839. Same as 1838. Clerk : James D. Halsted. 1840. Same as 1839. Clerk : James D. Halsted. 1841. Wardens: Peter A. Jay, Hachaliah Brown. Vestrymen : Josiah Bulkley, Samuel Haviland, William Bush, Jesse Purdy, James Stebbins, James D. Halsted, John H. Osborn, Samuel W. Kelley. Clerk: James D. Halsted. 1842. Wardens: Peter A. Jay, Hachaliah Brown. Vestrytnen: William Bush, Jesse Purdy, Samuel Haviland, James D. Halsted, James Stebbins, Josiah Bulkley, Samuel W. Kelley, Newberry D. Halsted. Clerk: James D. Halsted. 1843. Wardens: Hachaliah Brown, William Bush. Vestrymen: Josiah Bulkley, Samuel Haviland, Jesse Purdy, James Stebbins, John Brooks, Samuel W. Kelley, James D. Halsted, Newberry D. Halsted. Clerk: James D, Halsted. 1844. Same as 1843. Clerk: James D. Halsted. Y5 i845- Same as 1844. C/incn, Anderson, Isaac, 1730. Angevine, Lewis, 1741; 1751; 1755; ^7595 1762. Armour, Samuel, 1803-1807. Baker, Jonathan, 1739. Bayley, G. C, 1819-1821. Barker, Daniel, 1746; 1749. " Henry M., 1847-1849. " James, 1800. 82 Barker, John, 1775; 1794, 1795. " Thomas, 1751; 1757, 1758; 1760. " WiUiam, 1735; 1743; 1746; 1774. Barnes, Joshua, 1730. Barton, Joseph, 172S. Baxter, Stephen, 1776. Bent, Belden, 1822, 1823. Bloomer, Gilbert, 1741, 1742; 1746; 1753-1755; 1770-1776. John, 1716; 1723; 1727; 1730; 1736; 1738; 1744; 1748. " Robert, 1712; 1716; 1719; 1722; 1724; 1765; 1768. Brooks, David, 1832, 1833; 1835-1840. John, 1843-1849; 1874-1882. Brown, Benjamin, 1722; 1727, 1728. " David, 1766; 1768-1770; 1772; 1803-1809. " Deliverance, 1695; 1703. Jr., 1714. Gilbert, 1808-1818. Hachaliah, 1695; 1703; 1732; 1734; 1736; 1743-1745; 1747-1750; 1752; 1754-1758; 1810; 1819. Jonathan, 1727; 1731; 1736-1738; 1740; 1751. Jr., 1762-1764. " Josiah, 1771. " Peter, 1721. " Samuel, 1722, 1723; 1764. " Thomas, 1788-1791; 1796, 1797. Brundige, Daniel, 1725. " John, 1712; 1719; 1726. Joseph, 1740. Budd, Elisha, 1735; 1738; 1746; 1756; 1 758-1 760; 1764. " Gilbert, 1770; 1771; 1774. " James, 1769. " John, 1724; 1736-1738. " Underbill, 1739; 1741. Bulkley, Gershom, 1811-1818. " Josiah, 1832-1834; 1841-1845, William, 1820-1823; 1834. Bush, Abraham, 1749. " William, 1818-1828; 1832-1842. Butson, Thomas, 1747. Cady, Howard C., 1868-1870. Camfield, Jedediah, 1740. Carhartt, John, 1746. Carpenter, Benjamin, 1740. " Joseph, 1724. " Nathaniel, 1758. " Silas, 1726. 83 Carpenter, Zeno, 1 774-1 776. Catlin, William H., 1885. Chapman, Richard B., 1867-1872; 1875-1878. Clark, Andrew, 1828. " Howell, 1834-1836. Clauson, Stephen, 17 14. Cleator, Joseph, 1712. Close, George C, 1846-1848. Coe, Andrew, 1711; 1713. Conkling, Nicholas, 1713; 1717. Cornell, George F., 1878. " George L., 1860-1874. " Jacob, 1 7 16. Covert, Isaac, 1722; 1724; 1727. Crane, Zebulon, 1758; 1759; ^T^S- Cromwell, Charles T., 1852-1855. Curtis, Charles B., 1883. Daton, David, 1769. Dean, Samuel, 1 73 1. Denham, Isaac, 1695; 1703; 1714; 1715; 1717- Dennis, George, 1728; 1738; 1742. Denslow, Le Grand N., 1883, 1884. Disbrow, John (of Mamaroneck), 171 1, 1712. " (of Rye), 1714, 1715- " 1718, 1719. " Thomas, 1703. Doughty, Francis, 1 731-1734. Drake, Gerardus, 1732, 1733; 1737. " John J., 1862-1864. Dusenbery, Henry, 1794; 179S-1800. " William, 1741; 1751. Dusenburoh, John, 1770; 1773. Eldredge, Charles, 1888- 1890. Emmons, Francis, 1852-1858. Falconer, John, 1789, 1790. Ferris, John, 1763. Flewelling, Thomas, 1727. Foreman, Aaron, 1743; 1756,1757; 1762. " Jr., 1751- " John, 1756; 1767. Founten, Mathew, 1774. Fowler, Amnon, 1774. " Caleb, 1742; 1760, 1761; 1767. " Henry, 1719-1721; 1726; 1745. " Jeremiah, 1725; 1734; 1748. " Joseph, 1737; 1744; 1760, 1761. 84 Fowler, Josiah, 1768. Moses, 1788. Thomas, 1729, 1730; I733-I735- William, 1717; 1721; 1724,1725; 1730-1732; 1735; 1736; 1738; 1740. Frost, John, 1712; 1716, Furman, Jacob, 1734. Gedney, Eleazer, 1718; 1727. " Elijah, 1767. Isaac, 1743; 1756; 1773. " James, 1729. John, 1724; 1726; 1732; 1734; 1737, 1738; 1745; 1750; 1754; 1757. Glover, John, 1740. " John H., Jr., 1852, 1853. Golden, Thomas, 1745. Golding, Ephraim, 1729. Graham, Robert, 1763. Green, Joseph, 1718; 1745. Griften, Benjamin, 1724; 1742; 1747; 1750; 1759; 1761; 1763; 1767. Jonathan, 1739; 1753; 175^; 1758. " William, 1760, 1761; 1764, 1765: 1768-1770; 1772, 1773; 1776. Guion, Abraham, 1818-1828. " James, 1824. " John, 1750; 1764; 1769; 1796-1802. " Peter, 1826. Hadden, Job, 1749! I753-I75S; i757-i76i; 1763, 1764; 1766; i77o-i773- " Thomas, 1740. Haight, Charles, 1748; 1770. " David, Jr., 1751. John, 1714; 1722; 1775; 1776; 1789-1799. " Jonathan, 1712; 1715; 1717-1719; 1726; 1752. Joseph, 1745; 1747- Samuel, 1733; 1749- " Thomas, 1790. Hains, Joseph, 1749. Halsted, Ezekiei, 1767. James D., 1832, 1833; 1835-1845; 1849, 1850; 1856-1862. " Newberry D., 1842- 1 864. Thomas, 1812-1817. William B., 1865 -1868. Hanse, Godfred, 1736; 1742. Hart, James, 1766. " Jonathan, 1695. " Monmouth, 1725; 1739; 1771, 1772. Hatfield, Abraham, 1757. " Gilbert, 1 796-1 798. " Isaac, 1748. 85 Hatfield, Joseph, 1795. Haviland, Joseph, 1767. " Samuel, 1767; 1775; 1834-1863. " Thomas, 1756. Hayns, James, 1768. Hayward, Robert S., 1865-1878. Hill, Andrew, 1766. " Anthony, 1742. Holmes, Elijah, 171. " James, 1762; 1765; 1769. " John, 1734, 1735. " Jr., 1754, 1755- " Joseph, 1766. " Reuben, 1748. " Richard, 1742. " Stephen, 1770; 1772. Hopkins, Thomas, 1748. Horton, Caleb, 1743; 1752; 1754; 1797-1799. " Daniel, 1728. " Gilbert, 1776. " Gill Budd, 1775. " James, 1743; 1751, 1752; 1756- " Jr., 1765- " Jonathan, 1794, 1795. " John, 1715; 1722; 1725; 1727; 1729-1731; 1735. " Joseph, 1695; 1703; 1718; 1720. Hoyt, Stephen, 1792. Hunt, James, 1744; 1749; 1752. " Jesse, 1788, 1789; 1792. " Joshua, 1776. " Samuel, 1713; 1748. Hunter, Elijah, 1771; 1774. Hyatt, Caleb, 17 16, 1717; 1719. " Jr., 1741. " Elisha, 1753. Isinghart (or Izenhart), Christopher, 1747; 1765. Ives, James M., 1886-1894. Jackson, Walter M., 1888, 18S9. Jarvis, Jesse, 1818, 1819. Jay, John C, 1846, 1847. " Peter, 1747; 1763. Kelley, Samuel W., 1841-1845. Knapp, Benjamin, 1740. " Moses, 1719. " Timothy, 1695; 1718; 1723. 86 Kniffen, Ebenezer, 1721, 1722; 1742. George, 171 1; 1723, " Joseph, 1723; 1737; 1741. Nathan, 1713; 1749; 1759. Lane, Daniel, 1714; 1718. -' David, 1746; 1749, 1750. '• George, 1703; 1718; 1720; 1734. Jr., 1711; 1713. " Samuel, 1703; 1715-1718; 1720; 1724. " Jr., 1728, 1729; 1743. Lawrence, John, 1773. Lounsbery, Nehemiah, 1766. " William, 1752: 1776. I>yon, Andrew, 1788. " Israel, 1769; 1775, 1776. " John, 1732; 1739. " Jonathan, 1752. " Joseph, 171 1 ; 1719; 1721; 1723; 1737. Roger, 1762. " Samuel, 1741. Marvin, Lewis, 1762. Samuel, 1791-1793; 1800-1807. McCoUum, Thomas, 1811-1817; 1820. McDonald, Lewis, 1743; 1749- " Jr., 1773- McKay, John S,, 1850, 1851. Merritt, Andrew, 1728; 1754; 1756; 1758; 1760, 1761. " David, 1744. " Edward, 1755; 1772. Gilbert, 1763. " John, 1711; 1739. " Joseph, 1730, 1 73 1. " Stephen, 1744. Thomas, 1695; 1712; 1716. " Jr., 1711; 1714; 1715. " " son of Joseph, 1748. Miller, Abraham, 1720, 1721; 1733; 1745; 1760; 1761; 1763, 1764. Anthony, 1726. Jr., 1768. " Ebenezer, 1757. " Elijah, 1765, 1766; 1768; 1771; 1773. " Isaac, 1753. " James, 1772. " John, 171 1, 1712; 1718; 1744; 1746; 1750. " " (son of John), 1738. " Jonathan, 1715; 1720-1722. " Justice, 1768. 87 Miller, William C, 1885-1887. Mills, Abiier, 1873-1877. " Zachariah, 17 18. " Zebediah, 1763; 1767. Minuse, John D., 1 883-1 8S7. Moore, Alexander, 1745. Michael, 1825-1827. Morgan, Junius S., 1893-1895. Now Vestryman. Mott, Justice, 1703. Nellson, Polycarpus, 17 17; 1722; 1725. Nichols, Walter, 1 791-1793. Ogden, David, 1712; 1719; 1722. " Jonathan, 1735, 1736. " Joseph, 1741. " Richard, 1715; 1721; 1725. William, 1747. Olmstead, Benjamin S., 1862-1 871. Osborn, John, 1824-1827. " H., 1828; 1832-1841. Owen, Joseph, 1776. Palimer, Elisha, 1754. " John, 1764. Palmer, Nehemiah, 1713. " Sylvanus, 1714, 1715. Park, Joseph, 1800-1802; 1808-1810. " " 1886-1895. Now Vestryman. " Roger, 1725; 1729; 1733; 1735; 1737; 1738; 1742; 1798, 1799; 1807- 181 1 ; 1823-1828. " Jr., 1744; 1753; 1759; 1765. Peck, John B., 1879-1882. " Read, 1834; 1845-1851. " Thomas B., 1871-1882. Pellam, Francis, 1725; 1732, 1733. Penfield, Henry, 1814. Henry L, 1823-1828. Nathaniel, 1801-1806; 1808. Pool, John H., 1895. Now Vestryman. Provoost, Samuel A., 1834. William T., 1809-1813; 1815-1822. Purdy, Daniel, 1713; 1715; 1717; 1721-1723; 1726; 1728; 1732; 1738; 1740; 1745, 1746; 1757. " Elias, 1808-1820. " Jr., 1821. " Elijah, 1770; 1773; 1788-1792. " Francis, 1739; 1750. Purdy, Gabriel, 1822. " Hachaliah, 1762. " Isaac, 1775; 1822-1825. " Jesse, 1828; 1832-1851. " Jonathan, 1724; 1729; 1731, 1732; 1736, 1737: 1747; 1751; 1761; 1774, I793> 1794; 1818; 1821. " " Jr.. 1755; 1766, 1767; 1791; 1796-1802. " Joseph, 1695; 1703; 1723. " Joshua, 1753; 1758; 1767; 1788-1797; 1800-1807. " Joshua, Jr., I793-I795; 179^. 1799- " Josiah, 1756; 1827. " Nathaniel, 1796, " Nehemiah, 1806-1807; 1823. " " Jr., 1819-1822. " Roger, 1750; 1803-1811. Samuel, 1715: 1720; 1723; 1739; 1762; 1765; 1772; 1789-1791; 1824- 1828; 1832, 1833. " Solomon, 1748; 1769. " Still John, 1753, 1754. " Jr., 1755- " Thomas, 1703; 1713; 1815-1818. " William, 1792, 1793; 1850, 1851. Quintard, James W., 1891-1895. Now Vestryman. Ray, John, 1742. Read, George R., 1890-1895. Now Vestryman. Ricketts, George R. A., 1853-1857. Roads, John, 1736. Rogers, David, 1801-1805. " Jr., 1806-1817. Sackett, Adam T., 1856-1866. " Clarence, 1879-1895. Now Vestryman. Satterlee, Samuel K., 1854-1882; 1884- 1893. Schell, Edward, 1879-1881. " Edward H., 1894, 1895. Now Vestryman. Seaman, Hicks, 1750. Secor, Joshua, 1788; 1795. Seely, Joseph, 1723-1725; 1727-1733; 173^, I737- Shaw, Michael, 1728, 1729. " Samuel, 1730. Sherman, Thomas T., 1 883-1895. Now Vestryman. Sherwood, Joseph, 1726; 1729. " Jr., 1743; ^750. " Nathaniel, 1714. Sloakham, John, 17 13. Smith, Daniel, 1741; I775- " Gabriel, 1747. Smith, William, 1832, 1833; 1835-1 841. Sniffen, Isaac, 1799. Southerland, William, 1746. Stebbins, James, 1837-1846; 1848-1861. Stevenson, Edward, 1735. " James, 1764. Straing, Henry, 1735. Strang, Joseph, 1812-1814. Stuyvesant, Nicholas W., 1852. Sutton, John, 1747. " Joseph, 1734; 1740; 1753. •' William, 1762; 1766; 1768, 1769. Talbot, William R., 1851-1855. Tatlock, Henry, 1878-1882; 1884. Theall, Charles, 1733. Jr., 1744. " Ebenezer, 1714, 1715; 1721; 1723. " Hachaliah, 1759. " Joseph, 1703. Thomas, John, 1745; 1750; i753->755; 1757; 1759-1761; 1763 " Jr., 1757; 1760, 1761; 1766; 1773- " Thomas, 1769; 1771; 1788; 1796, 1797. Thorne, Benjamin, 1751. Tompkins, Jonathan Griffen, 1771. Tredwell, Samuel, 1728; 1734; 1743, 1744; 1770. " Thomas Star, 1752. Tyler, Jonathan, 1752. Underbill, Humphrey, 1717. Van Wagenen, Gerrit H., 1872-1892. Ver Planck, William E., 1882-1885. Webb, Edward D., 1863-1873. Westcoate, John, 1713. " Richard, 1715; 1717. Wetmore, Ezrahiah, 1790; 1793-1795. " Johial, 1789. " Timothy, 1765; 1774. White, William, 1730, 1731; 1733. Wiggin, Augustus, 1858-1867; 1869-1877. Willett, William, 1726, 1727; 1831, 1832; 1846; 1851. Willson, Samuel, 1755. Woolsey, John, 1739; 1768; 1774. " Richard, 1726. Wright, James, 1772; 1775. " Jotham, 1759; 1762. " Reuben, 1764. Unbcx of