This sum shows that his executrix had exceeded the original bequest in the will, £223. The curious reader will not be displeased with one or two more of these accounts, showing the expenses attendant on building a church at that early period :

"Benjamin Fowler's account in full for ye church: May 11th, 1753, dito 6- days works at geting timber for the dors and the winder frams for the church, at 5 shillings per day, £1 12 6. September the 20th, to working and going to ask

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the peple to come to work at the church, 8 days, (fcc, <fcc. John UnderhilTs receipt for supplying the workmen at the church with beef, commencing August 31st. Madame Philipse ditOj 09 pound of beef at 2^ M per pound, £15 10 3.

. ■ - Received of Beverly Robinsoji

. ■'. ^ .' - • the above amount in full.

, ■ ■ -; ,'".'■ • John Underhill."

Nothing remains of the original structure, except the walls and tower, the roof and wood work having been destroyed by an accidental fire, May, 1791. When the ruins of the church came to be examined after this melancholy accident, the skeleton of a full sized man was discovered behind the remains of the pulpit. In 1792, it was again repaired, and on the 21st August of that year, consecrated to the service of Almighty God, under the name and title of St. John's Church, Philipsborough, by the Right Rev. Samuel Provoost, first Bishop of the State of New York. The present edifice consists of a square lower surmounted with a wooden cupola and spirCj body and vestry room in the rear, . . ■ . . •..■■.