758 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



is the south east corner of said church with the date on it) by the war- 

 dens, Ben. Close and Gershom Hanford, the Rev. Nathan Felch de- 

 livered a well adapted discourse from fourth chapter of Zachariah before 

 a numerous and respectable audience, he standing on the said stone." 



The second church erected in 1810, consecrated in 1816, and re- 

 moved 1868 occupied the site of the present building. The principal 

 contributors towards the erection of the second structure were Epenetus 

 Wallace, M.D., and Joseph Purdy. Trinity church also liberally con- 

 tributed the sum of one thousand dollars, in 18 13, as above stated. 



Mr. Stebbins Baxter, a resident of this town, who died on the 2Sth of 

 February, 1820, bequeathed his entire property to St. James' parish, 

 amounting (according to an inventory of his estate) to $3000, which, 

 after deducting general expenses, &c, left a balance of $2000. The 

 parish, however, owing to the failure of his executors, only obtained the 

 sum of $1100. 



Upon the death of Mr. John Hanford, and his sisters, a legacy fell to 

 the church of $300 ; and Mrs. Elizabeth Lobdell Palmer bequeathed to 

 the same, the sum of $500. 



At no great distance from the church is situated the parsonage, erected 

 in 1842 by public subscription at a cost of $1100. It deserves to be 

 mentioned that the former parsonage was erected by the vestry about 

 1768, upon the church glebe which was purchased of Stephen De Lancey 

 in 1766, just previous to the first rector's going to England for holy 

 orders. From a petition to the court of Chancery in 1842, it appears 

 that all the real estate then held or owned by the Rector, Wardens and 

 Vestry — except the church edifice and a small lot of land on which it 

 stood — consisted of about six acres of land situated in the town of North 

 Salem and bounded as follows, viz : 



" On the west by land cf Charles Cable and land of Epenetus Howe, 

 and on the north by the land of Benjamin B. Gray, on the east by land 

 of the above named Epenetus Howe, and on the south by the highway 

 leading from Ridgefield to Somers."* This property was donated to the 

 church by John Wallace and Benjamin Close. 



In 1767-8, the church was furnished by the Venerable Society for the 

 Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, with a parochial library and 

 a quarto Bible and Prayer Book. The old Bible, which is handsomely 

 bound in parchment and printed by Mark Baskett, printer to the Uni- 

 versity of Oxford, A.D. 1765, was exchanged in 1850 for the present one 

 now in use, by some members of the Vestry, and removed by the Rev. 



a Extract from petition to mortgage said property In fee, to secure the sum of $350. This 

 Is the present glebe now owned by the church. 



