Wherein the former party for the value of £5, conveys to the latter a parcel of land lying at a place called Peekskill, being a part of lot No, 8, beginning at the north east corner of the second parcel of land lately purchased of Joseph Taylor, by north side ofCrumpond road, containing six acres, &c. : to have and to hold in trust for a school and burying place, and also for their executors and successors in trust, to the only proper use, benefit and behoof, and exercise of the public worship of God, and that it be for that purpose in the erecting and building of a meeting house or houses for the religious, (under the protection of our most gracious majesty,) either the Church of England, Presbyterian, Independents Baptists, or Congregational, &c. to erect and build a house for the religious exercise of the public worship of God, with a convenient yard thereto, for each or either of the above written denominations to them, the said Caleb Hall, &c., their heirs and successors, in trust for the neighborhood and inhabitants round about, from generation to generation for ever, and for no other use, purpose or intent whatsoever. a-

Colonel Beverly Robinson endowed the united parishes of St. Peter's, on Cortlandt's manor, and St. Phillips' on the Highlands, with a farm of two Inmdred acres. This property was subsequently sold under an order of the Court of Chancery, and equally divided between the two churches. Out of these funds (aided by a liberal grant from Trinity Church, New York, amounting to $1000) the present church was erected in Peekskill.