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. Petrus S. Ten Broeck, Deacon, residing in New York, succeeded Mr. Urquhart in 1817. In the fall of 18 1 6 he reported to the Convention, "That the congregations at Fish skill, Philipstown and Peekskill, have been in a depressed state in consequence of having been destitute of the regular services of a clergyman for some time past ; the two last particularly, which have been longest destitute.6 They now appear to be rising from their depression."'' For the successors of Mr. Ten Broeck see list of rectors.

At a vestry meeting held January 4th, 1828, Pierre Van Cortlandt, James Wiley and John Oppie were appointed a committee to rent the glebe farm, and also to petition the Chancellor for leave to sell the same, &c. Permission was accordingly granted on the 1 oth of November, 1828, and on the 20th of October, 1838, the glebe was sold for the sum of five thousand dollars. On the 18th of April, 1840, (in answer to an application of the wardens and vestrymen of St. Peter's church and St. Philip's chapel,) an act was passed by the Legislature of this State, authorizing a separation of said church and chapel.