The conditions of his gift were that the church edifice "shall be devoted to the j service of God according to the rites and ceremonies j of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United I States of America, and shall not be used for any other purpose whatsoever ; that such of the pews as are marked in the plan annexed to the deed as 'free' shall never be sold or rented, but shall remain free, so that all persons coming to the said church to worship therein may freely use and occupy the same." The I land conveyed with the church could only be used for the purposes of a parsonage and a garden and a site for sheds, and the residue as a cemetery or burying-ground. No rector or minister could be called or employed to officiate during the life of the donor, without his previous consent in writing. The donor also prohibited the premises from being mortgaged. The march of improvement has cut nj) all the surrounding property into streets and avenues, and in a few years St. Ann's will be like old St. Mark's in the Bowery, a rural church in the midst of a city. In vaults be-

I The aUive was kindly conunuDicated by Mr. Kelby, Aaaistant Librarian of the N. Y. liist. Soc., to whom for this and many other favors the author is greatly indebted.

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

neath the church repose the remains of most of the Morrises who owned Morrisania, they having been removed there when Mr. Harry Manigault Morris, executor of the estate of Lewis Morris, sold that portion of Morrisania which lies west of the Mill Brook. These remains were brought from the family vault, which stood not far from the present house, nowknown as Christ's Hotel.