During this year Governor Tryon also granted a special charter, in virtue whereof the vestry held a certain glebebof two hundred acres of land given by Colonel Beverly Robinson, senior warden of this parish, for the use of the Rector officiating one half of his time at St. Philipse's in the Highlands. This property was subsequently sold, as we shall have occasion to show, under an order of the Court of Chancery in 1S38, and equally divided between the two churches. Out of these funds (aided by a liberal donation from Trinity Church, New York, amounting to $1,000,) the present chapel was erected in the village of Peekskill.

Beverly Robinson, Esq., the noble benefactor of this parish, was a son of the Hon. John Robinson of Virginia, who was president of that Colony on the retirement of Governor Gooch, in 1734. He emigrated to New York, and married Susannah, daughter of Frederick Philipse, Esq., Lord of the manor of Philipsburgh. By this connection, Mr. Robinson became rich. When the Revolutionary controversy commenced, he was living upon that portion of the Philipse estate which had been given to his wife, and there he desired to remain in the quiet enjoyment of country life, and in the management of this large domain That such was his inclination, is asserted by the late President Dwight, and is fully confirmed by circumstances and by his descendants. He was opposed to the Measures of the ministry, gave up the use of imported merchandise, and clothed himself and his family in fabrics of domestic manufacture. But he was also opposed to the separation of the Colonies from the mother country. Still, he wished to take no part in the conflict of arms ; but importunity of friends overruled his own judgement, and he entered the military sendee of the crown.