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"Charmed With Its Loveliness" ~ Late Century: 1860s - 1890s 201 Phelps/McAlister House, 641 Mount Pleasant Road. Built c1870 by Epaphras L. Phelps, grandson of Brant's secretary. Epaphras married Elizabeth Ann Devlin. Their white brick Regency style house is an addition to an earlier frame structure which might be the Abraham Cooke store. Cooke received a Crown deed for 5 1/2 acres on this corner site on Lot 8W in 1836 and established his store there. The McAlister family acquired the house and farm acreage in 1918. Present owners are direct descendants of Samuel and Elizabeth McAlister. James Racey in 1851 and Abraham Cooke in 1864. The minutes of the 1871 Vestry Meeting reveal the sacrifice endured by Rev. Salter and his family. "Proposed by Colonel Perley and seconded by Mr. Tennant that the thanks of this Vestry are due and hereby presented to Mr. Salter, for his services, without a stipend for the past year. Carried." However, as the economy began to rebound by the late 1870s things did improve. In 1878 the Vestry thanked Walter Phelps and Frederick Yeoward upon their retirement as churchwardens for "the zealous and effective manner in which they had discharged their arduous duties and for the perseverance and energy displayed by them in successfully accomplishing the entire liquidation of the parsonage debt, which had pressed so heavily on the Church for so many years."