I38 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



Phillipsburgh, by his wife Joanna Brockholes, and devisee with her 

 brother Philip Philipse, of Philipse's patent in the Highlands. Mrs. 

 Robinson, as we have seen, was included with her husband in the con- 

 fiscation act of New York, and at the peace accompanied him to Eng- 

 land. She died at Thombury, near Bath, in 1822, at the age of ninety- 

 four. 



The chapel of St. Peter's, which was erected in 1838,* as auxiliary to 

 the mother church, is a handsome gothic structure of wood, situated 

 near the centre of the village of Peekskill. The interior, which is hand- 

 somely fitted up, contains a neat chancel and gallery. Against the 

 north wall is placed a marble tablet inscribed as follows: — 



M. S. 



Ann Stephenson, 



The affectionate and beloved wife of 



GEN. PIERRE VAN CORTLANDT, 



of this township and county, 



who departed this life at Albany, March 20th, 1821, 



translated by God to a kingdom of happiness and gjory, 



aged 46 years, 6 months and 16 days. 



Early instructed by her pious mother in the doctrines and principles of the 

 Gospel, this excellent woman became exemplary as a communicant of the Church 

 when only thirteen years old, and continuing to be a sincere and humble follower 

 of her Saviour, even unto her life's end, was endeared to all who knew her by 

 her Christian virtues, and for a pure and devoted attachment to Christ's Holy 

 and Apostolic Church, and to the members of this congregation, who as a 

 memorial of her worth and mark of respect for her venerable consort and her 

 only son, benefactors of this parish, have erected this tablet. 



Requiescat in Pace. 



There is a noble and deep toned bell in the tower, which summons 

 the parishioners every Lord's day to the house of prayer by its rich and 

 solemn sounds. "This was a gift in every way worthy of the venerable 

 individual whose name is graven upon it, the late Gen. Pierre Van Cort- 

 landt, for many years senior warden, to whose family the parish is not 

 only indebted for the original grant of land upon which the mother 

 church stands, but for other and more recent favors." It weighs one 

 thousand and eighty-five pounds, and bears the following inscription: — 

 "Cast by G. W. Holbrook, East Medway, Mass., 1841. Presented to 

 St. Peter's church, Peekskill, Westchester County, New York, by Gen- 

 eral Pierre Van Cortlandt, August 29th, 1841." The marble font was 



a Tlie deed for the church lot, from Ward B. Howard and Lucia his wife, bears date 23d of 

 December, 1S29. 



