h The vestery on February 22d, 1817, "refused to allow the Independent Congregation to occupy a part of the church and further consideration."

c This application appears to have been made without a formal meeting of the vestry.

d The Rev. Edward J. Ives in his report to tho Diocesan Convention of 1S29, says : " A new congregation has also been organized in the village of Peekskill, who contemplate the erection Of a new church as soon as their pecuniary resources shall be enlarged, being now insufficient to carry their good object into effect."

THE TOWJI OF CORTLANDT.

St. Puter'd Church aud the Tomb of Paulding.

The old parochial church of St. Peter's (a venerable relic of the piety of its founders, worthy of preservation, and which, connected as it is with the early Provincial history of the church in this country, we hope to see ere long put in creditable repair0 ) stands upon the summit of a high knoll, a short distance from the village of Peekskill. This humble structure was erected, as we have seen in the year 1766. The site and adjoining grave-yard were the gift of Catherine Van Cortlandt, wife of Andrew Johnson, and daughter of the Rt. Hon. Stephanus Van Cortlandt, first Lord of the manor cf Cortlandt. The following entry occurs in the old quarto Bible belonging to this church, printed A. D. 1728: --

"The gift of Mrs. Susannah Robinson, to St. Peter's church, at Peekskill, which church was by the desire of Beverly Robinson, Esq., Messrs. Jeremiah Blake, Caleb Ward, Isaac Hatfield and Charles Moore, trustees, appointed by the subscribers to said church for directing and carrying on said building, and for securing it to the inhabitants as a place of public worship, according to the establishment of the Church of England, on Sunday the 9th of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty-seven, being the eighth Sunday after Trinity, consecrated by the Rev.