The only teacher who taught school in either house, within the recollection of the writer, was Andrew Dean, Esq., some of whose descendants are still living in New Rochelle.^ In the year 1857 three schoolhouses were built (under the act of 1795), dividing the town into as many districts. The first was on the corner of a lane leading to the old French buiyingground. It was on Huguenot Street, nearly in front of the present Episcopal Church. It was quite a stately school-house for those times, being about eighteen by thirty-tw-o feet on the ground and two stories high. Its pre-eminence in size and other considerations procured for it the name of " Academy." This school had quite a wide-spread reputation as a place of learning ; and some who received the rudiments of education here have subsequently obtained celebrity as professional men. Bishop De Lancey, whose parents resided at Mamaroneck, came down to this school. Daily the boy bishop might be seen, to the great wonderment of the other scholars, jogging along on horseback with his dinner-basket dangling at his elbow, to take his place among his fellow-students in the High School, at that time taught by a Mr. Fox. Sometime between 1825 and 1827 this old hive of learning gave place to the school in Mechanics Street, which, in 1856-57, was exchanged for the building on Trinity Street, to which David Miller, one of the teachers of the former school, bequeathed by will the sum of eighteen hundred dollars, which was invested in an addition to the Trinity Street brick school-house.