In accordance with the act passed for the relief of the Episcopal church, passed March 17, 1795, it was again incorporated, Sept. 7, 1795. Augustus van Cortlandt and William Constable, wardens, John Warner, Thomas Valentine, Isaac Vermilyea, Frederick Underbill, Shadrach Taylor, Isaac Lawrence, Stephen Oakley and Jacob Post, vestrymen. In the first Convention of the Protestant E|)iscopal Church in the diocese of New York, held in the city of New York, June 22d, 1785, this church does not appear to have been represented.

"■ Updike's Hist, of the Narragansett Church, 310.

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To the Convention of 1787, she sent her first delegates, Augustus van Cortlandt and Israel Honeywell, Esqrs.

The principal benefactors to this parish, have been, the Hon. Frederick Philipse, Maik Noble, Esq., Augustus van Cortlandt, Esq.,a and the wardens and vestry of Trinity Cliurch, New York.b

In 1845, owing to the large increase of families within this parish, and the numerous calls made upon its officiating clergy, it was deemed advisable, after mature deliberation, to erect a parsonage within the village of Yonkers. For this purpose, an order was obtained the same year from the Court of Chancery, to dispose of the old parsonage and glebe. These were finally sold for $6,500, With part of these funds, the present Rectory was built. The corporation reserving to themselves the burying ground in the Saw Mill valley.

A part of Philipse's point in the rear of the present rectory, appears to have been used as a grave yard for strangers.