Nathan Felch delivered a well adapted discourse from fourth chapter of Zachariah before a numerous and respectable audience, he standing on the said stone."

The second church erected in 1810, consecrated in 18 16, and removed 1868 occupied the site of the present building. The principal contributors towards the erection of the second structure were Epen^.us Wallace, M.D., and Joseph Purdy. Trinity church also liberally contributed the sum of one thousand dollars, in 18 13, as above stated. '

Mr. Stebbins Baxter, a resident of this town, who died on the 28th of February, 1820, bequeathed his entire property to St. James' parish, amounting (according to an inventory of his estate) to $3000, which, after deducting general expenses, &c, left a balance of $2000. The parish, however, owing to the failure of his executors, only obtained the sum of $1 100.

Upon the death of Mr. John Hanford, and his sisters, a legacy fell to the church of $300 ; and Mrs. Elizabeth Lobdell Palmer bequeathed to the same, the sum of $500.

At no great distance from the church is situated the parsonage, erected in 1842 by public subscription at a cost of $1 100. It deserves to be mentioned that the former parsonage was erected by the vestry about 1 768, upon the church glebe which was purchased of Stephen De Lancey in 1766, just previous to the first rector's going to England for holy orders. From a petition to the court of Chancery in 1842, it appears that all the real estate then held or owned by the Rector, Wardens and Vestry -- except the church edifice and a small lot of land on which it stood -- consisted of about six acres of land situated in the town of North Salem and bounded as follows, viz :