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: --

M. S.

Ann Stephenson, The affectionate and beloved 'wife of GEN. PIERRE VAN CORTLANDT, of this township and county, ■who departed this life at Albany, March 20th, 1821, translated by God to a kingdom of happiness and glory, aged4G years, 6 months and 16 days.

Early instructed by her pious mother in the doctrines and principles of the Gospel, this excellent woman became exemplary as a communicant of the Church ■when only thirteen years old, and continuing to be a sincere and humble follower of her Saviour, even unto her life's end, was endeared to all who knew her by her Christian virtues, and for a pure and devoted attachment to Christ's Holy and Apostolic Church, and to the members of this congregation, who as a memorial of her worth and mark of respect for her venerable consort and her onl}' son, benefactors of this parish, have erected this tablet.

Requiescat in Pace.

There is a noble and deep toned bell in the tower, which summons the parishioners every Lord's day to the house of prayer by its rich and solemn sounds. "This was a gift in every way worthy of the venerable individual whose name is graven upon it, the late Gen. Pierre Van Cortlandt, for many years senior warden, to whose family the parish is not only indebted for the original grant of land upon which the mother church stands, but for other and more recent favors." It weighs one thousand and eighty-five pounds, and bears the following inscription: -- "Cast by G.