Some years after the close of the war, the altar cloth was discovered in an old dusty box, where it had lain through the whole period of the Revolu-' tion : this is now in use at St, John's chapel, Tuckahoe. The silver now used at the administration of the holy sacrament, consists of one large silver flagon, 2 silver chalices, a silver bason or font ; the latter presented by a member of the Van Cortlandt family; and a silver plate bearing the following inscription :

" Presented to the Episcopal Church of the town of Yonkers 1795."

» Bells were used by the ancient Romans to signify the time of bathing, and naturally applied by the early Christians to denote the hours of devotion.

COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER, 477

During the troubles of the Revolution, an American soldier killed in this neighbourhood is known to have been interred beneath the floor of this church, but there is no tradition of the cause of so unusual a place of sepulture being chosen.

" Here the warrior rests in peace, - , • ■ . ". And holy church his tomb doth grace." - , -. ^

The church-yard has been long since abandoned on account of its rocky situation. The one now used is located on the old parsonage property, and formed once a ])ortion of the glebe. It is beautifully situated on a rising knoll in the valley of the Saw Mill. The first interment on record occurs 1783, Richard Archer. Among other memorials in this yard are those of