Mother Angela Hughes, the youngest sister of Archbishop Hughes, was superior of the order when the Sisters, in December, 1856, bought this property of Edwin Forrest, with the farm buildings and the castle upon it, as he had built them for his own residence.- The following year Mother Angela commenced the new building, which now forms the central part of the present convent, overlooking the Hudson, between two and three hundred yards distant. This first building, with a front of two hundred and seventy feet, has by later additions been enlarged to more than five hundred feet of frontage, making a handsome brick structure, three stories in height, with high basement and attic and a lofty spire.

Mother Angela's term of oftice expired in 1862, since which date Mother Jerome and Mother Regina have successively ruled the order. Mother Angela died in 1866, Mother Regina in 1879 and Mother Jerome in 1885, since which date Sister M. Ambrosia,

1 Between Riverdale and Mount St. Vincent is a part of the okl Johu Warner farm, formerly owned by A. Schermerhorn, and another part owned by J. E. Bettner, E. F. Brown and others. Some fine stone country-houses have recently been erected on these tracts.

- The Forrest property was part of the large farm that Captain John Warner, of the Kerolutionary army, bought at the sale of the confiscated estate of Colonel Frederick Phillipse. -- heed of Commissiu7iers of Forfeiture, Dec. 6, 1785.

who, twenty-five years before, had been in charge ot the girls' parish school in Yonkers, then treasurer at j Mt. St. Vincent, and subseqently the head of the Girls'" Protectory at Westchester, and later assistantmother at Mt. St. Vincent, has been the Mother Superior there.