82 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



Frank Osgood, and the Vesta, for Pierre Lorillard. Mr. Carll has al- 

 tered the Wanderer for Mr. Stillman, the Sappho for William Douglass, 

 and is now engaged in lengthening the Vesta twelve feet for her present 

 owner, Mr. Samuel H. Mills, of New York city. Four yachts are now 

 on the stocks. To these may be added a large floating light-house for 

 the United States Government, furnished with steam whistle. 



The island contains two churches, a Protestant Episcopal and a 

 Methodist Episcopal. The former called Grace church, situated at the 

 corner of Main street and Pilot avenue (not far from the site originally 

 designed by the proprietors in 1761 for the erection of a church* ) was 

 organized in 1862. First services were held in May, 1861. On the 

 1 2th of October, 1863, George W. Horton and Margaret A., his wife, 

 conveyed to the Rector, Church-wardens and Vestrymen of Christ 

 church, Pelham, a lot of land, 50 feet by 100 feet, situated on Main 

 street and Pilot avenue, for the site of a church. A release of the pro- 

 ceeding to the Rectors, Church -ward ens and Vestrymen of Grace church, 

 City Island, took place 1st of December, 1868. 



A church edifice was commenced in 1863, and consecrated the same 

 year. It continued for a time as a part of Christ church, Pelham, Rev. 

 Samuel S. Chevers acting as assistant to the Rector of Christ church, 

 but residing on the island and officiating as pastor. Under the Rector- 

 ship of the Rev, E. W. Syle, it was set apart as an independent parish. 



The church building is of wood, built in the gothic style, containing 

 a small chancel window of three stained lights representing the trial of 

 Christ before Pontius Pilate, by the Rev. William J. Bolton. The 

 edifice will seat over two hundred. It deserves to be recorded here 

 that the Miss Boltons, of Pelham Priory, from the first, have been the 

 unfailing friends and supporters of the Island church. Without their aid 

 in the beginning, the parish would never have been formed ; and without 

 their liberal contributions to the support of the Rector, the parish would 

 have been deprived of the services of the church ; they have done a quiet, 

 but a blesssed work." 



Attached to the church is a rectory on Main street valued at $2,500. 

 Upon the 5th of March, 187 1, Stephen Decatur Horton and Caroline 

 L., his wife, conveyed to the Rector, Church-wardens and Vestrymen of 

 Grace church, City Island, a lot for a rectory, 100 feet square, for the 

 above mentioned object. 



A communion service was presented by Miss Catharine Lorillard Wolf. 

 The service books, by Isaac O. Barker. Esq. 



a Nos. 62 and 90 of the Public Squares on the island were set apart for churches and meet- 

 ing houses. 



