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on the same site, was constructed almost immediately on 

 the old foundations, but became a more imposing structure 

 by the addition of a clerestory. 



All five of the church edifices have occupied approximately 

 the same site, which was originally the Town Green. The 

 cemetery adjoining the church has been used as a burying- 

 ground from the time that the town was under the Dutch 

 jurisdiction as Oostdorp. Here, not only do 



"The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep," 



but also several of the rectors, and many of those whose names 

 were famous in early days, members of the families of Ferris, 

 Pell, Wilkins, Honeywell, De Lancey, Bayard, Bowne, Living- 

 ston, Ludlow, Morris, Hunt, and others. 



The communion service, consisting of a silver chalice and 

 paten, was presented to the church by Queen Anne in 1706, 

 during the rectorship of Mr. Bartow. In addition, the Queen 

 presented a Church Bible, a Book of Homilies, a cloth for the 

 pulpit, and a communion table. The communion service 

 and several manuscript and printed sermons of the early 

 rectors are preserved in the church, probably saved from 

 destruction through the exertions of Dr. Seabury at the time 

 church services were suspended during the Revolution. 

 About a stone's throw to the south of the church edifice is a 

 handsome stone building used as a chapel and Sunday-school, 

 which was erected about 1880, at a cost of $18,000. It 

 occupies the site, very nearly, of the ancient court-house and 

 jail, which were destroyed by fire in 1758 



A quarter of a mile south of the church, on Westchester 

 Avenue, is the parsonage, or rectory, which was built about 

 1850, not far from the site of the old one of 1763. It was 

 extensively repaired and enlarged in 1891 at an outlay of 



