Peter's Church was incorporated on the 19th of April, 1788, Lewis Graham, Josiah Browne, Thomas Hunt, Israel Underbill, John Bartow, Philip I. Livingston and Samuel Bayard, trustees. a- Upon the reorganization of the church, the Rev. Theodosius Bartow was called to the rectorship. For the successors of Mr. Bartow, see list of rectors. The present edifice was erected in 1794, on the site of the old church, and consecrated upon the 9th of December, 1795, by the Right Rev. Samuel Provoost, bishop of the diocese. It is a neat wooden structure surmounted by a cupola. The latter contains the original bell presented to the church by the Morris family, inscribed

"LEWIS MORRIS, 1677."

The communion plate consists of gift of Queene Anne, A. D. 1706.

chalice and paten, the

a Co. Rec. Religious Soc. lib. A. 19. A second incorporation occurs on the 2d of August, 1795 ; Israel Underbill, Philip I. Livingston, churchwardens ; John Bartow, jun., Thomas Bartow, Oliver de Lancey, Warren de Lancey, Josiah Brown, Jonathan Fowler, Robert Heaton, and Nicholas Bayard, vestrymen. Lib. A. 58.

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The queen also presented a church bible, book of homilies, cloth for the pulpit, and communion table.

On the south side of the chancel is a plain stone tablet, bearing the following epitaph :

Sacred

to the memory of

The Reverend Isaac Wilkins, D. D.,

who, for thirty-one years, was the

diligent and faithful minister of

this parish,

placed here, as he believed, by his Redeemer.

He remained satisfied with the