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.

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HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER

Upon a beautiful marble monument, surmounted with the sitting figure of the angel of the resurrection, his left hand pointing upward, and his right holding the trumpet, is the following inscription to the memory of Dr. Trevett, a former rector of the parish :

SACKED

To the memory of REV. RUSSELL TREVETT, D.D., who departed this life March 8th, 1865, Aged 47 years, 2 months and 6 days.

" I am the resurrection and the life, saith the Lord ; he that belieyeth in me. though he were dead, yet shall he live; and whosoever hveth and heheveth in me, shall never die."

" The graves of his saint3 were blessed, When in the grave He lay ; And rising theflce, their hopes He raised To everlasting day.

» Soar we now where Christ has led, Following our exalted Head ; Made lite Him, HKe Him we rise, Ours the cross, the grave the sties.'