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ments are not yet completed. Towards these George H. Swords, Esq., 

 has made the very liberal donation of $300. 



Besides St. Mary's church, Beechwood, Sunday services are now reg- 

 ularly performed at St. Johns, Pleasantville, in this Parish, where a con- 

 gregation was gathered by the Rev. Robert Harris in 1853, and incor- 

 porated under the title of " St. John's church, in the town of Mount 

 Pleasant;" a lot was purchased on Rail Road Avenue, and a neat 

 wooden edifice erected the same year. 



Within the vertile valley of the Nepara or Saw Mill, a few miles east 

 of Beeckmantown (on what is now termed East Tarrytown) stands the 



St. Mary's P. E. Churcli, (Beechwood.) 



county poor house or hospital, an incorporated and endowed institu- 

 tion for the afflicted and indigent. Its officers consist of three superin- 

 tendents, (who are nominated by a board of county supervisors,) a 

 keeper, a physician and teacher. The buildings are extensive and prin- 

 cipally constructed of stone. Its inmates, at present, number one hun- 

 dred and eighty-four. There are accomodations for three hundred, if 

 necessary. To the south-east of the poor-house, lies the Paulding 

 Homestead farm. 



Mrs. J. E. See related the following anecdote about her uncle, Col. 

 Hammond: — He lived in the first house on the right-hand side of the 

 road leading from Tarrytown to White Plains, just beyond the brick 

 school, now known as D. C. Reynolds' property, directly west of Mr. 

 Bonnar's farm, and adjoining it. The house used to have tall pine trees, 

 and very old box borders in front ; it is now owned by Mr. Kingsland. 

 A part of the American army under his command had been laying in 

 front on the fine plateau. General Washington came one day to con- 



