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at, 230; vestry of petition 232 ; Mr. Wetmore called, 233; let- ter of vestry to V. P. S., 240 ; building of church, 244; Queen Anne's gift to ; glebe and par- sonage of, 245; first erection of meeting house at, 246; number of meeting houses in parish of, 249; number of schools, 250; repairs of church, 261; decrease of sectaries, 266; fresh attempts to promote dissent, 277; glebe claimed by Dissenters, 279; noble benefaction to, 285 ; sequestration of glebe, 290; state of Presby- terian society at, 292; church- wardens letter to Secretary, 294 ; glebe and parsonage, 295; royal charter, 307; confirmation of church and cemetery, 308 ; burn- ing of parochial church; last meeting of vestry, 325 ; first re- ligious services after Revolution ; first delegation from, 328; trus- tees chosen, 329; re-election of wardens and vestrymen, 330 ; re-construction of church, ibid ; change of corporate title, 334, 337; purchase of parsonage and glebe, 335, 348; incorporation of church at, 337; erection of new church, 343 ; principal bene- factors to, 348; rectors of, &c., 350; notitia scholastica; pew holders, 351 ; churchwardens of, 352.
Rye Neck, proposed erection of a chapel on, 344.
Sacrament of Lord's Supper, times of administration of, 18, 148, 228.
Salem North, early history of, 548; union with Ridgefield, 550 ; first religious services at, 551; erec- tion of church ; boundaries of glebe, &c., 554; Mr. Clark officiates at, 555 ; letter of vestry to Secretary, 556, 557; Mr. Townsend appointed to, 558; Mr. Perry called to, 570; erec- tion of present church, 571, 572; incorporation of; Mr. Baxter's
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bequest to; erection of parso- nage ; boundaries of glebe, ibid ; parochial statistics, 574; list of wardens, 575.
Salem South, 608; gift of land to In- dependent minister of; Mr. Dib- blee, first officiates at, 609; Mr. Townsend appointed missionary to, 610; erection of church at, 611 ; parish church, dismantling of; deed for church lot, 612; in- corporation of; new church erected at; notitia parochialis, 614.
Sands Rev. John J., notice of ; called rector to Rye, 334 ; resignation of, 335.
Saybrook, Independent college at, 235. Scarsdale, first Episcopal services at, 708; incorporation of church ; deed church for lot, 709, 710, 711 ; description of church at. 712, 713, notitia parochialis, wardens, &c., 714.
Seabury Rev. Samuel, appointed missionary at Westchester ; fam- ily of, 79; admission of, 80, 81 ; carried prisoner to New Haven, SS; petition and discharge of, 89; escapes from Westchester, 99; missionary at Staten Island, 101; appointed chaplain, 102 ; sails for England; consecration in Scotland, 102, 103; death of, and monument to, 104, 237;
Seabury, his letters to the Secretary, 82, 83, 84, 85, 88, 100, 101, 322, 323, 373, 471, 472, 507 ; letter to Mr. Wilkins, 87.
Seabury Nathaniel, school master at Westchester, 77.
Seabury Rev. Samuel, epitaph to, 79. Seabury Rev. Charles, missionary at New London, 104. Sectaries, definition of, by Puritans, 131, 265.
Sermons funeral, means of communi- cating religious knowledge, 84. Services public, great slackness in at- tendance upon, 247.
Setauket, Caroline church at, 312.
School parochial, nurseries for the Church, 71.
Schoolmasters, Venerable Society's at Westchester, 126.
Schoolmasters at Rye, 351 ; high com- pliment to zeal and industry of, 282.
Scarsdale, early services at, 229; heads of families in, 248.
Short Rev. David H., 670. Sherlock Bishop, 69. Shelton Rev. George A., 51.
Smith Mr. Dissenting teacher at Rye, 312.
Society for Prom. and Prop. of the Gospel, &c., foundation of, 397. Society for Prop. of the Gospel in N. E., organization of, 397.
Society Venerable Prop., first mem- bers of in Westchester Co., 152; missionaries of, 189; letter to vestry of Rye, 280; letter with regard to Rye, 292.
Somers, parish of, 667; united with North Salem; organization of, 668 ; erection of church edifice, 669; description of church; no- titia parochialis, 671 ; list of war- dens, 672.
Strebeck Rev. Geo., 571, 624, 668. Stamford, Episcopal services at, 158, 266, 283.
Standard Rev. Thomas, family of, 55 : mandate to induct, 66; difficulty with schoolmaster at Westches- ter, 64; notice of death, 65; will of, 67, 68 ; officiates at Eastches- ter, 370; melancholy death of Mrs. Standard, 371; removal of remains, 372.
Standard Rev. Mr., letters to Secre- tary, 55, 58, 370.
Staten Island, ruined state of mission at, 102.
Stouppe Rev. Peter, minister at New Rochelle, 60; notice of, 435 an- swers of, to Bishop of London, 436, 437; visits Europe, 447, death of, 451 ; interment of, 453. Storrs Rev. Henry L., 519. 521; monument to, 524.
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Stuart Rev. Alexander, recom- mended to Bedford, 144; ap- pointed missionary there, 619. Sturgeon Wm., schoolmaster, at Rye, 277.
St. John's church, Pleasantville. no- tice of; 717.
St. Mary's church, Beechwood, de- scription of, 716, 717.
Suffolk county resolves, opinion of clergy concerning, 565.
Talbot Rev. John, charged with Ja- cobitism, 49.
Talbot St. George, noble benefaction of, 275, 535 ; biographical notice of, 541; will of, 542; letters to Secretary, 538, 539, 540, 551, 552.
Taxation without representation en- forced by Puritans, 89.
Tennison Archbishop, pious bequest of, 41.
Tennent Rev. Wm., officiates at Eastchester, 369.
Ten Broeck Rev. Petrus S., 599.
Thomas Rev. Juo. appointed mission- ary at Hempstead, 154; letter to Secretary, 213, 293.
Thomas Hon. John, 329. Tomes Rev. Charles, 659.
Thompson Rev. William, notice of, 344, 345; inscription to, 346. Townsend Rev. Epenetus, notice of, 558, 559; melancholy fate of, 568, 569; letters to Secretary, 560, 567.
Tracts, useful impression created by, 83.
Trinity Church, N. Y., liberal dona- tions of, 1, 2, 3, 275, 339, 480, 526, 545, 572, 603, 624, 644, 654, 658.
Throckmorton John, persecution of, by Baptists, 1, 2.
Trustees, powers of, 374.
Tuckahoe organization of Parish, 723 ; description of church at; gift of land, &c., 724
Urquhart Rev. Mr., difficulties at Ja- maica, 154 ; memorial of mission- aries in behalf of widow of, 188.
Urquhart Rev. John, 599.
Van Cortlandt Augustus, 514. 1
Van Cortlandt Frederick, ibid.
Van Cortlandt, family of, 576.
Van Cortlandt Gen. Pierre, obituary notice of, 577.
Vermilye Rev. Isaac Dyckman, 516, 690.
Vesey Rev. Mr., Commissary ; letter to clergy, 209; letter to Secre- tary, 210 ; enquiries into the con- duct of Mr. Standard, 64.
Vestry, act for election of, 24 ; refuse to grant the annual quotas, 41 ; declare Eastchester seperate from Westchester, 43; major part power to call minister; disqua- lification of, 6 ; rights of, to sell pews, 125, meetings of, not be held without minister ; powers of, 292, 303 ; discordant elements in colonial, 293 ; popular election of, 368.
Virginia, unlawful seizure of church glebes in, 92.
Vredeland, why so called 2.
Waldron Wm. W., founder of St. James' Library, Fordham, 72S. Weaver Rev. Joshua, 727.
West Farms, early proprietors of 703 ; separated from Westchester, 704 ; first Episcopal services at, 705 ; description of church, 706; liberal contributors to church at, ibid ; Notitia Parochialis, 707.
Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy, proper supplement to, 320.
Walton Mr., conduct of, at Rye, 246 ; followers of old Independent party, 249.
Warren Rev. Joseph, 599. Weckquaskeck, 130.
Weller Rev. Geo., 571, 613, 625.
Wetmore Rev. James, call of to Rye, 232, 233; family of, 235; sails for England, 236; mandate of Gov. Burnet to induct, 239; letter of vestry to V. P. S. con- cerning, 241 ; see appendix for letter ; controversy with Qua- kers, 255; . death of, 286, 291 ;
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monumental inscription to, 286; works of, &c., 287 ; descendants of, 288; last will of, 289, 290; settlement with executors of, 291.
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Wetmore, his letters to the Secretary, 243, 251, 252, 253, 254, 255, 256, 280, 284, 285.
Wetmore Timothy, appointed school- master at Rye, 284; notice of, 288; letters to Secretary, 292, 312.
Wetmore Rev. Robert G., notice of, 288.
Wetmore James, appointed school- master at Rye, ibid.
Wetmore Ezrahia, notice of, 289. Westchester parish, 1; Independent services at, 2, 3; erection of meeting house, &c., 6, 7; built by public tax, 8; removal of, 9; burning of court house at, ibid ; first wardens and vestrymen of, 20 ; lay readers provided for, 24; land given for glebe at, 30, 31; great progress of church at, 44; account of erecting church at; glebe of twenty-three acres at, 45; bishop of London obtains land for church at, 22, 23; undi- vided tract, called Longreach, given for glebe at, 45; church, how repaired, 46; extent of par- ish, and number of families in, 47; value of benefice, &c., 48; description of church at; given by Quakers to Col. Heathcote, 59 ; number of meeting houses in parish of; royal charter for, 73, 76 ; repairs of parsonage and purchase of glebe land, 77; dese- cration of church, and deplorable state of parish at, 99, 100; great accessions to church at, 82 ; pro- fessed Dissenters at, 84; erec- tion of township, 105; election of trustees, ibid; trustees peti- tion V. P. S. ibid; erection of new church edifice, 107; confir- mation of church and burying ground, 108; re-lease of bury-
ing ground, 109; incorporation of church at, 110; union with Eastchester, 111 ; list of benefac- tors, pew holders and rectors, 123, 124, 125 ; notitia parochialis, 126; inhabitants and wardens of, 127.
Westchester Co., early method of building churches in, 59; Dis- senting ministers of; proposed division of parishes, 155; sub- dvision of parishes in, 4; gene- ral population of, 140; treatment of reformers in, 198; low ebb of religion in, 292; observance of the Lord's day in, 312.
White Plains, parish of, 638; first Episcopal services at; the Inde- pendents of, 246, 249, 253, 639 ; catechetical instructions at, 266, 282, 639 ; large attendance of people at ; Mr. Rogers officiates at, 640; withdraws from Rye 344, 641 ; incorporation of church, 641; description of church edi- fice, 643; donation of Trinity Church to, 614; churchwardens of, 645.
White Plains West, chapel of Ease at, 644.
Whitefield Rev. George, pernicious tenets broached by, 272.
Wilkins Rev. Isaac, Bishop Seabury's letter to, 87; Chandler's letter to, 102; family of, 111; letter to fellow countrymen, 112 ; visits Nova Scotia ; death of, &c., 114, 119; " the Watchman," a poem to, 117; Wilkins Isabella, inscrip- tion to, 122.
Woodbridge Mr. Independent teacher at Rye, 25, 158.
Yale, students of, fined for attending Episcopal services, 239; com- mencement at, 276.
Yonkers, parish of, 485; early associ- ated with Westchester, 25, 45, 487; first vestrymen of, ibid; first services, where held ; peo- ple determine to erect church ; Mr. Jones catechist at Mile
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Square, 488; Mr. Philipse be- queathes site of church and glebe, 71, 488 ; tenants taxed for erec- tior. of church, 489; state of pre- cinct, described by Dr. Johnson and others, 492, 493 ; Mr. Munro appointed missionary at; Assem- bly refuse to erect manor into parish, 496; state of religion among Dissenters at; commu- nion silver provided for ; des- cription of Dissenters at, 499, 500; growth of Church at, 501 : conformity of Dissenters at, 502 ;
Mr. Babcock appointed mission- ary at, 50S; State restores Church property ; distraction of parish, and abortive attempts of Dissenters, 511, Mr. Fowler collects congregation at, 512; Mr. Cooper called to rectorship, 513; description of church cdi- fice, 522 ; sale of old parsonage, 525; principal benefactors of, list of ministers, 526; popula- tion and wardens of, 527. Youngs George, schoolmaster at Westchester, 84.
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