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10s. Under the Manorial charter, the Morris's were possessed of the im- 

 propriation and the patronage of all and every — the church and churches 

 erected or established within the manor of Morrisania. Still Morrisania 

 continued to be associated with Westchester in the support of a minister 

 till the year 1840, when the present parochial church of St. Ann's was 

 founded by Gouverneur Morris, Esq., being the first building devoted to 

 worship and religious instruction ever commenced in Morrisania. The 

 church with its surrounding grounds was munificently conveyed to the 

 vestry, by its founder in 1841, under the following form : — 



DEED OF GIFT. 



"This indenture made this seventeenth day of July, in the year of our Lord 

 one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, between Gouverneur Morris, of Mor- 

 risania, in the County of Westchester, in the State of Xew York, Esquire, of the 

 first part, and the Rector, Wardens and Vestrymen of St. Ann's church at Mor- 

 risania, of the second part ; Whereas the said Gouverneur Morris with a view to 

 the promotion of Religion and Piet}-, has at his own expense erected on his 

 estate on Morrisania aforesaid, a church or edifice intended for the public worship 

 of God according to the rites and ceremonies of the Protestant Episcopal Church 

 in the United States of America ; and whereas a religious society has lately been 

 formed and incorporated according to law, by the name and style of The Rector, 

 Wardens and Vestrymen of St. Ann's church at Morrisania ; which corporation 

 are the parties hereto of the second part, and the said Gouverneur Morris has 

 promised to give to them the said edifice with the land hereafter described to be 

 attached thereto, with the exceptions, and on the conditions hereinafter expressed. 

 Noio this indenture witnesseth that the said Gouverneur Morris, in the considera- 

 tion of the premises and of one dollar lawful money of the United States of 

 America, to him in hand paid by the said parties of the second part, the receipt 

 whereof is hereby acknowledged, hath granted, bargained, sold and conveyed, and 

 hereby doth grant, bargain, sell and convey unto the said parties of the second 

 part, their successors and assigns, all that certain piece or parcel of land situate in 

 Morrisania aforesaid, whereon the said church edifice hath been erected, and 

 bounded as follows , to wit : Beginning at a stake situate south sixty-six degrees 

 and forty-five minutes, east, sixty-eight and a half feet from an iron bolt in the 

 soutli corner of a large rock, which stake is the south-west corner of the lot 

 herein described, and running thence north twenty-three degrees and fifteen 

 minutes ; east, two hundred and eighty feet six inches, thence south sixty-four 

 degrees and forty-five minutes ; east, three hundred and ninty-five feet and two 

 inches, thence south thirty degrees and thirty minutes ; west, one hundred and 

 twenty-six feet and eight inches, thence south forty-one degrees and thirty min- 

 utes ; west, one hundred and forty-nine feet six inches, thence south forty de- 

 grees, west nine feet and two inches, thence north sixty-six degrees and f orty-five 

 minutes, west three hundred and twenty-six feet and six inches to the place of 

 beginning, the last mentioned course being paralell with the front of the said 

 church or edifice, and distant therefrom one hundred and sixty-two feet and eight 



