644 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



silver bason or font ; the latter presented by a member of the Van Cort- 

 landt family ; and a silver plate bearing the following inscription : 



' ' Presented 



To the Episcopal Church 



Of the town of Yonkers, 



1795." 



During the troubles of the Revolution, an American soldier, killed in 

 this neighborhood, is known to have been interred beneath the floor of 

 this church, but there is no tradition of the cause of so unusual a place 

 of sepulture being chosen. 



" Here the warrior rests in peace, 

 And holy church his tomb doth grace." 



The church-yard has been long since abandoned on account of its 

 rocky situation. The one now used is located on the old parsonage 

 property, and formed once a portion of the glebe. It is beautifully situ- 

 ated on a rising knoll in the valley of the Saw Mill. The first interment 

 on record occurs 1783, Richard Archer Among other memorials in 

 this yard are those of 



LEMUEL WELLS, ESQ,, MISS SUSANNAH HOWLAND, 

 born in the city of Hartford, born in Boston, 1753, 



Mar. Eliza H. died in Greenburgh, 1S23, 



died Feb. 11, 1842, aged 73 years, 



aged 82. 



The first mention of the parish of Yonkers occurs in an act passed 

 during the first session of the third Assembly, 5th of King William and 

 Queen Mary, September, 1693, entitled an act for settling a ministry 

 and raising a maintenance for them in the city of New York, counties 

 of Richmond, Westchester and Queens ; " Wherein it was enacted by 

 General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, that in each 

 county there shall be called and inducted two clergymen for the county 

 of Westchester — one to have the cure of Westchester, Eastchester, 

 Yonkers and the manor of Pelham ; the other to have the cure of Rye, 

 Mamaroneck and Bedford ; and allowed ^100 each, to each, ^50 to be 

 paid in country produce. In raising the respective maintenances for 

 the ministers, the respective justices of every city and county aforesaid, 

 or any two of them are required to issue out warrants to the constables 

 to summon the freeholders of every city, town and precinct, for the 



