THE TOWN OF WESTCHESTER. 401 



On or near the site of the old Court House and Jail, adjoining the 

 church-yard on the south, was erected in 18 , a beautiful parochial 

 school-house, costing $18,000. The building is well fitted up, and an- 

 swers the double purpose of a chapel and school-room. 



To St. Peter's church is attached a portion of the ancient glebe which 

 was given by the town in 1703, sometimes called the " Parsonage Land," 

 consisting of 8 "„ acres, bounded north by river road, or Westchester turn- 

 pike ; east, by Avenue B ; south, by Thirteenth street ; west, by Four- 

 teenth street ; and 2 ^ acres, bounded east, by Glebe avenue, and west 

 by Lafayette street. The church holds also the grave-yard and the 

 land on which the parochial school-house stands, containing 2 ^ acres, 

 also 4 "o acres of salt meadow, bounded north, by Pugsley Farm ; south, 

 by Pugsley creek; east, by Pugsley meadow; and west, by a ditch. a 

 The former parish house, or parsonage, which was purchased by the 

 vestry in 1763, stood at no great distance from the present edifice. 



PRINCIPAL BENEFACTORS OF ST. PETER'S CHURCH. 

 Queen Anne, Col. Benjamin Fletcher, Edward Viscount Cornbury, Col. Jameft 

 Graham, Col. Caleb Heathcote, Col. Lewis Morris, The Venerable Propagation 

 Society of England, the Rev. John Bartow, the Borough Town of Westchester, 

 Basil Bartow,* Abijah Hammond, George Love, Robert Watts, & the corpora- 

 tion of Trinity church, New York, &c. The latter have made the following 

 liberal grants to this church, viz : In 1795, the sum of $750 ; in 1796, S500 ; 

 and in 1809, five lots of ground in Ileade, Chamber and Warren streets, New 

 York. The church still owns four of these lots, the present value of which is 

 $55, 000. c It deserves to be mentioned, however, that this parish contributed 

 one-half of the original value of the lots. d 



The first dalegate from this parish to the Diocesan Convention in 

 1790, was Joseph Brown, M.D. 



a Copied from maps belonging to Vestry of St. Peter's church. 



a Mr. Basil Hartow, by his will, dated 16th of Dec, 1780, bequeathed "unto the minister, 

 church-wardens and vestrymen, for the time being, of the Incorporated Church of England, 

 known by the name of Si. Peter's church, In the Borough town of Westchester, the sum of 

 £o0 towards building a u<:w church in said Borougli town, or repairing or enlarging the pres- 

 ent church, for the worship of Almighty God, to be paid to them when they shall actually en- 

 gage in said work." This will was proved 11th day of March, 1784, in Surrogate's office, N. 

 V., Polio xxxv. 



6 Kobert Watts and Mary his wife, released 35 acres to the vestry of St. Peters church, 29th 

 Of May, 1797.— West. Co. Rec. Lib. M. of Deeds, pp. 116, 118. 



c The rector and inhabitants of the city of New York, in communion of the Prot. Episcopal 

 Church to St. Peter's church, Westchester, 17th Jan., isil.— Rec. in the office of the Clerk of 

 the city of New Y ork, Lib. No 95, of conveyances, p. 547, 8th June, 1811. 



d In 1807 the sum of $1,950 was raised by St. Peter's church, Westchester, tendered to, and 

 accptt-d by Trinity church, New York, for the lots conveyed by their corporation to the vestry 

 of St. Peter's. One of the above-mentioned lots was taken by the Corporation of New York, 

 for widening Chapel street, and the award applied to the erection of gallery pews and the 

 carriage shed. In the possession of the clerk of the vestry is a lease from James McDonald, 

 of Bedford, a W. C. Co. farmer, to the Trustees of the Episcopal Church of St. Peter's, in the 

 township of Westchester, for a farm in the township of Bedford, being the farm where Jno. 

 Banks formerly lived, containing 204 acres, for one year at the sum of 6s, n6p, Sept. 1791; also 

 a lot of four acres, commonly known by name of " Court House Lot," in that town, signed 

 by James McDonald; witnesses, Alfred Livingston and James G. Fowler. The lease, however, 

 Is nut signed, interchangeably, by the Trustees of the church. 



