134 /HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



orders, and was ordained Deacon by Bishop Provoost, in the month of 

 June, 17S9, and Priest on the 1 8th day of the same month, 1790. He 

 commenced his labors as a preacher of the gospel over the united par- 

 ishes of Brookhaven, Huntington and Oyster Bay, L. I. He remained 

 there but two year's, when he was called, as we have seen, to the rector- 

 ship of this parish. Upon the 7th of August, 1792, the vestry agreed 

 with the Rev. Andrew Fowler, to officiate as rector, and to pay him for 

 his services the sum of ,£70." They also agreed " to put him in pos- 

 session of the glebe farm, from the first day of May next." 



The same year Mr. Dunning, senior warden of the parish, certified to 

 the Diocesan Convention, "that possession had been procured of the 

 parsonage house and glebe, belonging to the churches of St. Philip's at 

 the Highlands, and St. Peter's, near Peekskill. That they had given a 

 call to the Rev. Mr. Fowler, and had provided for his support ; and that 

 the people seemed much pleased with having the gospel once more 

 preached, and divine service performed according to the Protestant 

 Episcopal Church." At a vestry meeting held January 3d, 1793, it was 

 resolved: — "That the Rev. Mr. Fowler shall be inducted according to 

 the mode of the Protestant Episcopal Church in this State, now in use, 

 into the rectory of St. Peter's church, in the manor of Cortlandt, and 

 St. Philip's chapel, in Phillipstown, now in connection together, and that 

 the induction into St. Peter's shall be made on Sunday, the 6th of next 

 January; and the induction of St. Philip's chapel, whenever conven- 

 ience will permit." Upon the 4th of January, 1794, the thanks of the 

 vestry were given to Pierre Van Cortlandt for the great pains he had 

 taken at the Legislature of this State, to obtain a title for the glebe be- 

 longing to the united churches. Mr. Fowler resigned the charge of this 

 parish in 1794, and subsequently removed to Charleston, South Caro- 

 lina, where he died December 29th, 1850, at the advanced age of ninety. 

 The following notice of his death appeared in the Cale?idar for March 

 1st, 1851: — 



"The Charleston Gospel Messenger for February, contains an 

 obituary notice from which we extract the following particulars: — 

 'It may be truly said of the departed he was a great missionary. In 

 five or more of our Dioceses he officiated for more or less time; but the 

 greater part of his ministerial life, that is about forty years, was passed in 

 South Carolina. He was the first missionary of our 'Advancement Socie- 

 ty,' and first missionary of the 'Society for Missions of young men and 

 others,' instituted in Charleston; which was intended to act out of the 

 Diocese, the elder Society being trusted within the Diocese, and which 

 continued until the ' General Missionary Society' superceded the occa- 

 sion of it. The churches now flourishing in Columbia, Choran, St. 



