silver bason or font ; the latter presented by a member of the Van Cortlandt family ; and a silver plate bearing the follo-vving inscription :

"Presented

To the Episcopal Church

Of the town of Yonkers,

1795.'"

During the troubles of the Revolution, an American soldier, killed in this neighborhood, is known to have been interred beneath the floor of this church, but there is no tradition of the cause of so unusual a place of sepulture being chosen.

*' Here the warrior rests in peace, And holy church his tomb doth grace."

The chuTch-yard has been long since abandoned on account of its rocky situation. The one now used is located on the old parsonage property, and formed once a portion of the glebe. It is beautifully situated on a rising knoll in the valley of the Saw Mill. The first interment on record occurs 1783, Richard Archer Among other memorials in this yard are those of

LEMUEL WELLS, ESQ,, MISS SUSANNAH HOTVLAND, born in the city of Hartford, born in Boston, 1753,

Mar. Eliza H. died in Greeuburgh, 1S23,

died Feb. 11, 1S42, aged T3 years.

aged 82.

The first mention of the parish of Yonkers occurs in an act passed during the f.rst session of the third Assembly, 5th of King WiUiam and Queen Mar>', September, 1693, entitled an act for settling a ministry and raising a maintenance for them in the city of New York, counties of Richmond, Westchester and Queens ; " \\'herein it was enacted by General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, that in each county there shall be called and inducted two clergymen for the county •of Westchester -- one to have the cure of Westchester, Eastchester, Yonkers and the manor of Pelham ; the other to have the cure of Rye, Mamaroneck and Bedford ; and allowed ^100 each, to each, ^50 to be paid in countrj' produce.