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A History of the County of Westchester, Vol. II — Passage 35 (part 2)

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[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] 215 the said church and confer in manner as hereafter is established and appoint-ed, and for the more immediate carrying into execution our royal will and pleasure herein we do hereby assign, constitute and appoint Isaac Wiilett and Nathaniel Underbill, the elder, to be the present churchwardens and Peter de Lancey, James Graham, James van Cortlandt, Lewis Morris, John Smith, Theophilus Bartow, Cornelius Wiilett and Thomas Hunt, to be the present vestrymen of the said church, who shall hold, possess and enjoy their respec-tive offices until Tuesday in Easter week now next ensuing, and for the keep-ing of 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 for ever on Tuesday in Easter week in every year the rector and inhabitants of the bo-rough town of Westchester in communion of the church of England as bylaw established, shall meet at the said church, and there by the majority of voices of such of them as shall so meet, elect and choose two of the members to be churchwardens, and eight others of their members to be vestrymen of the said church for the ensuing year, which said churchwardens and vestrymen so