The building is well fitted up, and answers the double purpose of a chapel and school-room.

To St. Peter's church is attached a portion of the ancient glebe which was given by the town in 1703, sometimes called the " Parsonage Land," consisting of S iVo acres, bounded north by river road, or Westchester turnpike ; east, by Avenue B ; south, by I'hirteenth street ; west, by Fourteenth street ; and 2 /oo acres, bounded east, by Glebe avenue, and west by Lalayette street. The church holds also the grave-yard and the land on which the parochial school house stands, containing 2 /JJ^j acres, also 4 "0 acres of salt meadow, bounded north, by Pugsley Farm ; south, by Pugsley creek ; east, by Pugsley meadow ; and west, by a ditch.<» The former parish house, or parsonage, which was purchased by the vestry in 1763, stood at no great distance from the present edifice.

PR1^XIPAL BENEFACTORS OF ST. PETER'S CHURCH. Queen Anne, Col. Benjaraiu Fletcher, Edward Viscount Cornbury, Col. Jamea Graham, Col. Caleb Heatlicote, Col. Lewis Morris, The Venerable Propagatiou Society of England, the Rev. John Bartow, the Borough Town of Westcliester, Basil Bartow," Abijah Hammond, George Love, Robert Watts, '> the corporation of Trinity church, Isew York, &c. The latter have made the following liberal grants to this clmrch, viz: In 1795, the sum of S750 ; in 1796, $500; and in 1S09, five lots of ground in Reade, Chamber and Warren streets. New York. The church still owns four of tliese lots, the present value of which is 655.000.« It deserves to be mentioned, however, that this parish contributed one-half of the original value of the lots.i^