From a friend interested in the village of Irvington, came its first landed endowment, viz : The two village lots, (50 feet by 100) with two adjoining gores, on which the building stands; the gift of one bearing an honored name, the grandson and name-sake of the friend, companion and counsellor of Washington, a name and gift now perpetuated in the 'John Jay Scholarship.' A second bears in its name an equal national rank and character, viz: the 'Alexander Hamilton Scholarship,' through the kindness of the grandson and name-sake of that eminent leader in Washington's counsels and framer of our country's policy. A

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third bears also the name of the ' John Bard Scholarship,' the first contributor of funds to aid in the erection of the school. A fourth scholarship bears the well-known name of its earliest country contributor, a name as world-wide in literary reputation, as it is dear to his friends : the 'Washington Irving Scholarship.' A fifth bears the name of a most liberal and kind contributor to all good works : the ' Robert B. Minturn Schotarship.' A sixth that of the 'Franklin C. Field Scholarship,' in return for the gift of two village lots. And a seventh that of the 'Trinity Church Scholarship,' in memory of its liberal grant of $1,000.

To these free scholarships, the nomination under the rules of the school, is in the hands of those whose names they respectively bear, for life, or descending to heirs according to the amount of endowment.