The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester (1881 revised edition, Vol. I)
Philip's chapel, in Phillipstown, now in connection together, and that the induction into St. Peter's shall be made on Sunday, the 6th of next January; and the induction of St. Philip's chapel, whenever convenience will permit." Upon the 4th of January, 1794, the thanks of the vestry were given to Pierre Van Cortlandt for the great pains he had taken at the Legislature of this State, to obtain a title for the glebe belonging to the united churches. Mr. Fowler resigned the charge of this parish in 1794, and subsequently removed to Charleston, South Carolina, where he died December 29th, 1850, at the advanced age of ninety. The following notice of his death appeared in the Calendar for March 1st, 1 85 1 : --
"The Charleston Gospel Messenger for February, contains an obituary notice from which we extract the following particulars: -- 'It may be truly said of the departed he was a great missionary* In five or more of our Dioceses he officiated for more or less time; but the greater part of his ministerial life, that is about forty years, was passed in South Carolina. He was the first missionary of our 'Advancement Society,' and first missionary of the 'Society for Missions of young men and others,' instituted in Charleston ; which was intended to act out of the Diocese, the elder Society being trusted within the Diocese, and which continued until the 'General Missionary Society' superceded the occasion of it. The churches now flourishing in Columbia, Choran, St