A History of the County of Westchester, Vol. I — Passage 46
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] conduct and manage the affairs and business of the said church and corpora-tion in manner as hereafter is declared and appointed; and for the more imme-diate carrying into execution our royal will and pleasure herein, we do hereby assign, constitute and appoint Beverly Robinson and Charles Moore to be the present church wardens, and Jeremiah Drake, Caleb Ward, John Johnson, Joshua Nelson, Thomas Davenport and Henry Purdy to be the present ves-trymen of the said church, who shall hold, possess and enjoy their said re-spective offices until Tuesday in Easter week now next ensuing; and for the keeping up the succession in the said offices, our royal will and pleasure is, and we do hereby establish, direct and require that on the said Tuesday in Easter week now next ensuing, and yearly and every year thereafter forever on Tues-day in Easter week in every year, the rector and members of St. Peter's Church, on the manor of Cortlandt, near Peekskill, shall meet at the said church, and there, by the majority of voices of such of them as shall so meetj Vol. I.