III 1713, the Propagation Society founded a charily school for the education of children in this town. The same year £5 per annum is granted to a schoolmaster at Yonkers, where there is a large congregation of Dutch and English, for instructing the younger sort in the catechism and liturgy, provided he can produce a certificate of his teaching thirty children. A. D. 1719, Mr. Jones was allowed fifty shillings for teacliiiig children to read at Mile Square.

In 1761, the Rev. Mr. Milner, Rector of the parish, informs the Propagation Society that one of the edifices he preaches in at Yonkers was a new one, raised by the generosity of Colonel Frederick Philipse of Philipsbo rough, who has given to its service a fine farm as a glebe, consisting of two hundred acres, upon which he purposes to build a good house for a minister. In 1764 the society report that they have received a letter from Colonel Frederick Pliilipse of Philipsborough within the Province of New "York, dated October 23, 1764, representing

"That at the expense of himself and family there is now erected on the Manor of PhiJipshorough a handsome stone church completely finished, and every thing necessary for the decent performance of divine service prepared, that about three quarters of a mile from the church he has laid out and appropriated two hundred and fil'ty acres of excellent arable and wood land for a glebe for the minister for ever, and that he fully intends as soon as ihey are happy to have a worthy clergyman of the Church of England settled among them, to build him a genteel and handsome house upon said glebe, the materials for which are now providing, and which will cost at least i;400. He therefore earnestly requests the society to send them a missionary,'*that he and his tenants, nearly one hundred and fifty families, may be no longer destitute of the worship of the Church of England."