About 1767, Susannah De i icey presented to the church a silver chalice, which was subsequently sold by order of the vestry. This lady was the oldest daughter of the Hon. James De Lancey, Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of New York in 1747, and Anne Heatheote, daughter of Col. Caleb Heatheote, and great grand daughter of Anne van Cortlandt, one of the daughters and devisees of the Hon. Stephanus von Cortlandt, Lord of the Manor of Cortlandt. She died unmarried in 1815, and was inferred in the family cemetery, on Heatheote hill, Mamaroneck.

Upon an elevated piece of ground, on the west side of the church, over-looking the village on the east, is a large enclosure, in which numerous interments have taken place. Here repose the mortal remains of the celebrated Sarah Bishop, the hermitess. Also the following :

COL. THADDEUS CRANE, Erected

died to the memory of the

Sept. 1st, 1S00, REV. ABRAHAM PURDY, A.M.,

aged 71 years, 5 mo. who died at Somers,

and 20 days. on the 7th day of August,

A.D. 1825, in the 44th year of his age.

Beneath this Monument lies the remains of Doctor

BENJAMIN DELAVAN,

of the United States Army, who died at Natchitoches, State of Louisiana, 26th Nov., A.D. 1S27, in the 36th year of his age, and was interred here the ISth of March, A.D. 1829.

a "he Rev. John W. Moore, of Red Hook. N. Y., when respectfully asSed to restore this gift ■ ' the Venerable Propagation Society, to the old parish, declined on the ground that he inadi jl ftur exchange for it ; besides which, he considers it unlit for use and a sort of family heir loom.