Ann's church by Governeur Morris, J. P. Allaire, New York, 1841." It appears, that prior to the Revolution, Morrisania formed one

a Church Register.

b The church with its adjoining grounds, were munificently conveyed to the vestry, as a donation, by its founder, Governeur Morris, Esq., in a deed securing the holy and beautiful house, which God had moved him to erect to the service of God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, &c. &c." See Church Register.

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of the precincts of Westchester parish, for, in 1707, she paid for the church and poor, £3 10. In 1720, her quota was £4 10. To St. Ann's church are attached a parsonage and burying ground.

LIST OP RECTORS.

Instit. or call, Incumbents, Vacated by

1841, Rev. Arthur C. Cox, Presb. resig.

1842, Rev. Charles Jones, Presb.

1843, Rev. Charles Aid is, Presb. "

1st Sep., 1847, Rev. Abraham Beach Carter, present incumbent.

Notitia Parochialis. 1847, Communicants, 60. Baptisms, 17.

At the commencement of the revolutionary strnggle. General Heath's division of the American army was stationed at Morrisania. From his memoirs we gather the following particulars. A picket from our general's division, of four hundred and fifty men, constantly mounted, by relief, at Morrisania, from which a chain of sentinels, within half gun-shot of each other, were planted, from the one side of the shore to the other, and near the water passage, between Morrisania and Montresor's island, which in some places is very narrow. The sentinels on the American side were ordered not to presume to fire at those of the British, unless the latter began ; but the British were so fond of beginning, that there was frequently a firing between them. This having been the case one day, and a British officer walking along the bank, on the Montresor's side, an American sentinel, who had been exchanging some shots with a British sentinel, seeing the officer, and concluding him to be better game, gave him a shot, and wounded him.