In addition to the above private scholarship, nine further are provided, as "on the foundation," to which the nomination lies jointly in the "Visitor," the "Missionary" and the "Principal" of the school ; the object of these last being to provide gratuitous instruction for such as need it in the neighborhood, without the reproachful distinction of being received in forma pauperis.

Chapel School and Parsonage of St. Barnabas.

LIST OF RECTORS.

May 21, 1859, Rev. Wm. McVickek, D.D., resigned May 4, 1867. Aug. 22, 1867, Rev. Wm. Henry Benjamin, B.A., Present incumbent.

This parish was incorporated in 1858. On the 1st of May, 1S52, the Rev. Wm. A. McVicker, D.D., was appointed by Bishop Wainright. missionary to Dearmans now Irvington and parts adjacent. The corner

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THE TOWN OF GREENBURGH.

stone of the present chapel school was laid in August, 1S52, and the building opened for divine service in May, 1853. On the 1 ith of June, 1864, the enlarged church building was consecrated by Bishop Potter.

Immediately in the vicinity of Dobb's Ferry, and contiguous to the river, is the residence and estate of James A. Hamilton, Esq., son of the Hon. Alexander Hamilton. The house which commands a fine view of the river, contains among other valuable family relics, the original portrait of General Washington, painted by Stewart for the Hon. Alexander Hamilton j after his death it remained in the possession of Mrs. Hamilton, upon whose decease it passed into the hands of her son -- the present owner. The Hamilton estate formerly belonged to the Odell family. Jonathan Odell, father of the destinguished Colonel John Odell, was residing here in the Autumn of 1776, when the British army, after retiring from White Plains, encamped in the neighborhood.