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.

The following entry occurs in the bible belonging to this church, in possession of Isaac Seymour, Esq. : --

"The gift of Mrs. Susannah Robinson^ to St. Peter's Church at Peekskill, which church was, by the desire of Beverly Robinson, Esq., Messrs. Jeremiah Drake, Caleb Ward, Isaac Hatfield and Charles Moore, trustees, appointed by the subscribers to said church for directing and carrying on said building, and for securing it to the inhabitants as a place of public worship according to the establishment of the Church of England, on Sunday the 9tli of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixtyseven, being the eighth Sunday after Trinity ; consecrated by the Rev. Doca Co. Rec. lib. H. 339.

b This lady was the daughter of the Hon. Frederick Philips.

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tor John Ogilvie, of New York, for the service of the Holy Trinity, according to the rites and cerenaonies of the Church of England, as by law established, by the name of St. Peter's Church."

Upon the ISlh of August, 1770, the church received the following charter from His Excellency, Cadwallader Golden, Lieutenant-Governor of the Province.