Mary's church is beautifully located on high ground above the Hudson River, about two miles south of the village of Sing Sing, and was erected in 1850, principally at the cost of the late Rev. Wm. Creighton, D.D., and of his son-in-law, the late Rev. Edward N. Mead The whole structure cost about $7,500. Besides the lot of one acre, on which the church stands, the Rev. Founder has purchased two and a half acres adjoining, for a glebe and parsonage. The chancel arrangea O'Callaghan's Hist, of New Netherlands, Vol. II, p. 472. Note.

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mcnts are not yet completed. Towards these George H. Swords, Esq., has made the very liberal donation of $300.

Besides St. Mary's church, Beechwood, Sunday services are now regularly performed at St. Johns, Pleasantville, in this Parish, where a congregation was gathered by the Rev. Robert Harris in 1853, and incorporated under the title of " St. John's church, in the town of Mount Pleasant;" a lot was purchased on Rail Road Avenue, and a neat wooden edifice erected the same year.

Within the vertile valley of the Nepara or Saw Mill, a few miles east of Beeckmantown (on what is now termed East Tarrytown) stands the

8t Mary's P, K. Church, (Beechwood.)

county poor house, or hospital, an incorporated and endowed institution for the afflicted and indigent. Its officers consist of three superintendents, (who are nominated by a board of county supervisors,) a keeper, a physician and teacher. The buildings are extensive and principally constructed of stone. Its inmates, at present, number one hundred and eighty-four. There are accomodations for three hundred, if necessary. To the south-east of the poor-house, lies the Paulding Homestead farm.