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. Dr. John Ogilvie of New York, for the service of the Holy Trinity, according to the rites and ceremonies cf the Church of England, as by law established, by the name of St. Peter's church."

Mrs. Robinson, (the wife of Col. Beverly Robinson,) was the eldest daughter cf the Hon. Frederick Philipse, second Lord of the manor cf

a In 1S2S it was voted, " that the sum of $40 be appropriated for the repairs of St. Peter's cluiren and yard, under the direction of James Maudevilic, John Oppie and Daniel W. Bird-

HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.

Phillipsburgh, by his wife Joanna Brockholes, and devisee with her brother Philip Philipse, of Philipse's patent in the Highlands. Mrs. Robinson, as we have seen, was included with her husband in the confiscation act of New York, and at the peace accompanied him to England. She died at Thornbury, near Bath, in 1822, at the age of ninetyfour.

The chapel of St. Peter's, which was erected in i838,rt as auxiliary to the mother church, is a handsome gothic structure of wood, situated near the centre of the village of Peekskill. The interior, which is handsomely fitted up, contains a neat chancel and gallery. Against the north wall is placed a marble tablet inscribed as follows: --