The same year ^5 per annum is granted to a schoolmaster at Yonkers, where there is a large congregation of Dutch and English, for instructing the younger sort of both nations in the catechism and liturgy, provided he can produce a certificate of his teaching thirty children. In that summer A. D. 17 19, Mr. Jones was allowed fifty shillings for teaching children to read at Mile Square.

a Acta of Asjsembly passed in the province of N. T. from 1C91 to 1725, p. 23.

6 Ibta.

c From a collectioa of pajicrs printcj hy onler of the Society, 9.

d FrniM til.; WL->ik;Ui-ster liecovils we t.ik j tlte fiMlortinir txtrjct, "John Archer, constable of ti'.e Vor.kiTS aD;iear'^. with a r.c';i|>' from Mr. Hartow, iioanii^rUate ye '21 May, 1714-15 5iuC8 tlie year 17l(J, as Uie miiu.--ier's rate ^Mthltio collectiou alluweil, Ac.

646 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.

In 1 761, the Rev. ^Ir. Milner, Rector of the parish, informs the Propagation Society, that one of the edifices he preaches in at Yonkers was a new one, raised by the generosity of Colonel Frederick Phil ipse of Philipsborough, who has given to its service a fine farm as a glebe, consisting of two hundred acres, upon which he purposes to build a good house for a minister. In 1764 the society report that they have received a letter from Colonel Frederick Philipse of Philipsborough within the Province of New York, dated October 23, 1764, representing: --

" That at the expense of himself and family there is now erected on the Manor of Philipsborough a handsome stone church completely finished, and ever}'thing necessary for the decent performance of disine service prepared; that about three quarters of a mile from the church he has laid out and appropriated two hundred and fifty acres of excellent arable and wood land for a glebe for the minister for ever, and that he fully intends as soon as they are happy to have a worthy clergyman of the Church of England settled among them, to build him a genteel and handsome house upon said glebe, the materials for which are now pro\'iding, and which will cost at least ^400.