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during the short time of his engagement were very acceptable. 

 He was succeeded by the Reverend John Ireland, August 20, 



1794- 



On January 20, 1795, the trustees of the town of West- 

 chester released, for the sum of twenty shillings, unto the 

 trustees of the Church of St. Peter's 



"all that certain lot, piece and parcel of ground on which the 

 Episcopal Church of St. Peter's is erected, and also the Bury- 

 ing Ground adjoining the said church, as it is now enclosed 

 and fenced, and which has heretofore been used for a Burial 

 Place by the inhabitants of said Township, containing about 

 one acre, be the same more or less. " 



August 2, 1795, the church was again incorporated under 

 the provisions of the act of the Legislature of March 7, 1795, 

 for the relief of the Protestant Episcopal Church throughout 

 the State. The church-wardens were Isaac Underhill and 

 Philip I. Livingston, and the vestrymen, John Bartow, Jr., 

 Thomas Bartow, Oliver De Lancey, Warren De Lancey, 

 Joseph Brown, Jonathan Fowler, Robert Heaton, and Nicholas 

 Bayard. Under this act, the vestry, or a majority of them, 

 had full power to call and induct a minister; therefore, at the 

 meeting in August, 1795, the Reverend John Ireland was 

 inducted into full rectorship by confirming to him the tem- 

 poralities of his position. 



Mr. Ireland continued as a successful minister until 1797, 

 during which time the church edifice was consecrated, Decem- 

 ber 9, 1795, by the Right Reverend Samuel Provoost, D.D., 

 the first Bishop of the Diocese of New York. Mr. Ireland was 

 called to St. Ann's Church, Brooklyn, in 1798; and on the 

 seventh of June of the same year, the two congregations of 

 St. Peter's, Westchester, and St. Paul's, Eastchester, resolved 



