M., who was licensed by the Bishop of London, August 24th, 1772, appointed to Wyoming parish, Pennsylvania, from whence he removed to this Province. Mr. Page does not appear to have officiated here very long ; and no doubt left in consequence of the breaking out of the Revolutionary war. Several persons of this name were graduates of Harvard University, and staunch loyalists. After this, religious services were suspended in the parish, and no clergyman was called or settled for nearly seventeen years. Seated near the Hudson river, the village of Peekskill suffered a great deal from the inroads of the enemy; who frequently came out from New York in considerable force. In September, 1777, the whole place was sacked and burnt, and the neighboring country pillaged by them.

At the close of the war (the principal members of the church having removed from the parish) the Presbyterians took advantage of the dissentions then existing, by attempting to seize the church and glebe, and, under the act of 17 84," choosing trustees, who it seems were all of one persuasion. But these nefarious schemes were happiTy frustrated, and the church finally incorporated under the old title.

According to a notice of this event given by the Rev. Andrew Fowler, in the year 1793, we learn: -- "That three or four years ago the Presbyterians made an attempt to take -the church and glebe by force; they called the church by a new name ' Union Church' and in order to carry their schemes they chose one half of the trustees as they said, out of the church. The truth is they had once professed themselves Episcopalians; but most of them have since proved themselves to be rank Dissenters, which the Presbyterians no doubt knew." These facts were recorded in consequence of Mr.