THE TOWN* OF NORTH SALEM. 759 



John W. Moore, a a former rector of the parish, and a great nephew to 

 Dr. Benjamin Moore, afterward Bishop of New York. It may be re- 

 membered that Dr. Moore received this very book from the hands of the 

 Rev. Epenetus Townsend for safe keeping in 1779. The ancient Prayer 

 Book, which was printed at Cambridge, England, by Joseph Bentham, 

 in 1764, is still preserved in the parish. About 1767, Susannah De 

 Lancey presented to the church a silver chalice, which was subsequently 

 sold by order of the vestry. This lady was the oldest daughter of the 

 Hon. James De Lancey, Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of New 

 York in 1747, and Anne Heathcote, daughter of Col. Caleb Heatheote, 

 and great grand daughter of Anne van Cortlandt, one of the daughters 

 and devisees of the Hon. Stephanus von Cortlandt, Lord of the Manor 

 of Cortlandt. She died unmarried in 181 5, and was interred in the 

 family cemetery, on Heathcote hill, Mamaroneck. 



Upon an elevated piece of ground, on the west side of the church, 

 over-looking the village on the east, is a large enclosure, in which nu- 

 merous interments have taken place. Here repose the mortal remains 

 of the celebrated Sarah Bishop, the hermitess. Also the following : 



COL. THADDEUS CRANE, Erected 



died to the memory of the 



Sept. 1st, 1800, REV. ABRAHAM PURDY, A.M., 



aged 71 years, 5 mo. who died at Sorners, 



and 20 days. on the 7th day of August, 



A.D. 1825, in the 44th year 

 of his age. 

 Beneath this Monument 

 lies the remains of. 

 Doctor 



BENJAMIN DELAVAN, 



of the 



United States Army, 



who died at Natchitoches, 



State of Louisiana, 



26th Nov., A.D. 1827, 



in the 36th year of his age, 



and was interred here 



the 18th of March, A.D. 1829. 



a The Rev. John W. Moore, of Red Hook, N. Y., when respectfully asked to restore this 

 gift of the Venerable Propagation Society, to the old parish, declined on the ground that he 

 made a fair exchange for it ; besides -which, he considers it unfit for use and a sort of family 

 heir loom. 



