Palmer and others; for at a vestry meeting held on the 6th of November, 1801, it was ordered: -- "That the doors of the churches (St. Peter's and St. Philip's) be shut against Mr. Palmer for the future." In the year 1803, Mr. James Mandeville paid the wardens and vestrymen for " one year's rent of the parsonage farm, ending 15th of April, ^35; and to one year's rent of the church land, situated round the church at Peekskill £i."a The latter must refer to the cemetery which was confirmed to the church by the royal charter of 1770. Occasional services were performed at this time by the New York clergy; for on the 20th of May, 1804, Mr. James Mandeville charges the vestry with the expenses, " paid by him, for keeping of the Rev. Messrs. Cooper and Wilkins, jQd 12.''

In 1806, the Rev. Joseph Warren was called to be rector of the

a Vestry minutes. The Baptist meeting honse must have stood near St. Peter's church, for on the *■ 201 )■ of March, 1305. Joseph Ferris was appointed to put up the division fence between the church yards of the Episcopal and Baptist Churches."

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HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.

united parishes of St. Peter's, Cortlandt, and St. Philip's, Philipstown. The next year he makes report to the Diocesan Convention, for the two churches, of ten communicants. He was succeeded by the Rev. John Urquhart, who entered upon his duties as minister of the united parishes in i8o9,a and resigned in December, 1814, whereupon the " Rev. Adam Empie and the Rev. John Brown were selected to supply the vacant congregations at Peekskill and Philipstown." The following year the Rev. Adam Empie (chaplain and professor in the military Academy at West Point) reported : -- " That in compliance with the appointments made at the last Convention he has performed divine services, and preached two Sundays at Philipstown and two Sundays at Peekskill; in each of which place he administered the Holy Communion, of the advantages of which they had for more than two years been deprived." The Rev.