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The Rev. Harry Munro became, in 1764, the first rector of Yonkers or Philipseborough. He was succeeded, in 1771, by Rev. Luke Babcock, and he again, in 1777, by Rev. George Panton. During the Revolutionary War the church was used at intervals by both armies as a hospital, and its pulpit by ministers of different denominations, who made strong efforts to retain possession. The roof and woodwork of the original structure were destroyed by fire in May, 1791. The instru- ment of consecration in 1792, signed by Bishop Provoost, is now in the possession of the parish.
ST. PETER'S CHURCH, WESTCHESTER.
This parish was organized by royal charter granted by George III., King of Great Britain, May 12, 1762. The first church was erected in 1701, the second was begun in 1855. This building was destroyed by fire in 1877 and re- built and consecrated in 1879. The succession of rectors since 1726 was : Rev. John Bartow, 1726; Rev. Theodosius Barton, 1792-1794 ; Rev. John Ireland, 1794-1797 ; Rev. Isaac Wilkins, D.D., 1798-1830; Rev. William Powell, 1830-1849; Rev. Charles D. Jackson, 1849-1871 ; Rev. Christopher B. Wyatt, D.D., 1871-1879, and since 1881 the present incum- bent, Rev. Joseph H. Johnson. A rectory was procured about 1850. St. Peter's chapel was erected in 1867, during the rectorship of Rev. Dr. Jackson. The parish records of this venerable corporation are so lost or perished, that no sta- tistics can be given of the baptisms, confirmations, or com- municants. The present number is 230.
The only names of wardens reported are Caleb Heathcote and Josiah Hunt, in 1701.
The first church edifice was built in 1701 of wood, twenty- eight feet square, with a pyramidal roof with a bell turret ris- ing from the apex. The cost was £40.
This church was sold in 1788, and in 1790 another build- ing was erected at a cost of £336. It was destroyed by fire
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in 1855. A new church was begun in 1855 at an outlay of $60,000. It was built of sandstone with a tower which con- tained three keyed bells, D, B, and G, weighing respectively, 754, 908, and 1,222 pounds. And this was in turn destroyed by fire on the evening of January 22, 1877. The present church was afterwards erected and consecrated July 12, 1879. Among the early rectors, and following Mr. Bartow, was Rev. Samuel Seabury, who afterwards became the first Bishop in the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States. The communion service consists of a chalice and paten, and was presented to the parish by Queen Anne, 1706.
ST. PETER'S CHURCH, PEEKSKILL .*
This parish was organized under a royal charter of George III., which was received August 10, 1770. The parish was received into union with the Convention in 1791. This parish is closely associated with the history of the Van Cortlandt family and Cortlandt manor. The Rev. James Watrous, of Rye, held services here as early as 1744, and in 1761 Rev. Wm. Dibble officiated. As early as 1750, the people had given six acres of land for the foundation of a parish. The church, which is still in existence, was begun in 1766, and consecrated August 9, 1767, by Rev. John Ogilvie, D.D. This old parochial church, now stands on the summit of a high knoll, a little out of the village. The chapel of St. Peter's, which was built in 1838 as auxiliary to the mother church, is a handsome Gothic structure of wood, standing near the center of the village. Among the principal benefac- tors of the parish were Catharine Van Cortlandt, Col. Bev- erly Robinson, and Susannah Philipse, his wife, the Venerable Propagation Society, Gen. and Col. Pierre Van Cortlandt, Nicholas Cruger, Isaac Seymour, Col. John Williams, and the Corporation of Trinity Church, New York.
The rectors have been, in 1771, Rev. John Doty; in 1775, Rev. Bernard Page; 1792, Rev. Andrew Fowler ; 1794, Rev. Samuel Haskell; 1806, Rev. Joseph Warren ; 1811, Rev. John Urquhart ; 1817, Rev. Petrus Ten Broeck; 1826, Rev. Edward J. Ives ; 1832, Rev. James Sunderland ; 1838, Rev.
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William C. Cooley; 1841, Rev. William Barlow; 1848, Rev. George S. Gordon ; 1854, Rev. Edmund Roberts; after a vacancy of one or two years, Rev. John Rutherford Mat- thews ; in 1865, Rev. E. M. Rodman ; in 1872, Rev. Francis R. Harison ; 1874, Rev. Wm. Fisher Lewis ; in 1881, Rev. N. F. Putnam ; in 1883, Rev. George McClellan Fiske ; and in 1885, Rev. Cyrus B. Durand.
In 1807 there were 50 communicants; in 1847, 40; in 1853, 50; and in 1883, 228. The reports of baptisms and confirmations are without value. The wardens in 1770 were Beverly Robinson and Charles Moore; in 1790, William Dunning and Caleb Ward ; in 1800, Daniel Wm. Birdsall and Daniel Haight ; in 1810, Henry Garrison and Daniel Birdsall; 1820, Barnard Hanlan and Henry Garrison ; in 1830, Pierre Van Cortlandt and Henry Garrison; in 1840, Pierre Van Cortlandt and Jonathan Collett; 1850, Isaac Seymour and Thomas Snowden ; and at present, Owen T. Coffin and Cal- vin Frost.
ST. JAMES' CHURCH, NORTH SALEM .*
This parish, which is identified with the history of the DeLanceys, is among the most interesting of the colonial parishes. It was organized under a royal charter, George III., and received into union with the Convention 1792. The church appears to have been erected in 1766. In 1797 this church was sold, and the corner-stone of a new building laid August 30, 1810. Towards the cost of this church, Trinity Church, New York, contributed $1,000. It was consecrated by Bishop Hobart in 1816. In 1842 the wardens built the rectory and barn. Many interesting gifts from England and the DeLanceys found place in the church. The rectors have been, in 1750, Rev. Ebenezer Dibble ; in 1764, Rev. Richard S. Clark ; in 1768, Rev. Epenetus Townsend ; in 1790, Rev. David Perry, M.D .; in 1804, Rev. George Strebeck; in 1810, Rev. Nathan Felch; in 1816, Rev. George Wells ; in 1820, Rev. Samuel Nichols; in 1829, Rev. Hiram Jeliff; in 1835, Rev. Alexander Fraser ; in 1841, Rev. David Short ; in 1842, Rev. Albert P. Smith; in 1847, Rev. Nathan W. Monroe ; in
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1848, Rev. Orsamus H. Smith ; and in 1851, Rev. John Wells Moore; vacancy in 1855 and until 1862, when Rev. R. Tre- vett, D.D., was rector; vacancy in 1865; in 1872, Rev. R. C. Russell, who was rector in 1883. There is no report to the Convention accessible since that date. The wardens in 1765- 85 were John Wallace and Ebenezer Lobdell; in 1800, James Bailey and Benjamin Close; in 1810, Benjamin Close and Joshua Purdy ; in 1820, Eperetus Wallace and Joshua Purdy ; in 1830, Joshua Purdy and Richard Sherwood; in 1840, Joshua Purdy and Samuel Field ; and in 1850, Samuel Field and John Hanford. No additional data are obtainable.
ST. MARK'S IN THE BOWERY.
This parish was organized New York, October 10, 1799. The corner-stone of the church was laid April 25, 1795, and consecrated May 9, 1799. The rectors have been Rev. John Callahan, elected February 15, 1800, and died April 14th of that year ; Rev. Wm. Harris, 1801-1816; Rev. Wm. Creighton, 1816-1836; Rev. Henry Anthon, 1837-1861 ; Rev. Alexander H. Vinton, 1861-1869; and Rev. J. H. Rylance, D.D., since March, 1871, rector and present incum- bent. A rectory was built in 1839. St. Mark's memorial chapel and schools was erected in 1884 on Tompkins Square and Tenth Street, during the present rectorship. The num- ber of baptisms recorded is 2,268. No statistics of confirma- tions or communicants by decades are presented. The pres- ent number is about 557. The wardens in 1799 were Francis B. Winthrop and Peter Stuyvesant; in 1809, Mangle Min- thorn and William Ogden ; in 1819, the same ; in 1829, Nich- olas Fish and Edward Lyde; in 1839, John C. Lawrence and Gerardus Clark; in 1849, Wheaton Bradish and Michael Ulshoeffer ; in 1859, the same; in 1869, Hamilton Fish and Henry B. Renwick; in 1879, the same; and in 1886, Peter C. Schuyler and William Remsen.
In the Bouwery, or, as we would say now, upon the farm, Governor Stuyvesant built a chapel wherein his family and neighbors might worship according to the rites of the Dutch Reformed Church. A great many years after, the chapel, hav-
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ing fallen to ruin, was pulled down, and upon the same spot was erected a new church : St. Mark's Church in the Bowery.
When the chapel referred to was built is not known, but it was in use in 1660, for in that year the Rev. Henry Selyns arrived from Holland to take charge of the church in Breuk- elen (Brooklyn), and Governor Stuyvesant made arrangements which secured part of his services for the chapel in the Bow- ery. The chapel seems to have been without a regular pas- tor after that, but it was doubtless cared for during the life of the governor by the clergy of the Dutch Reformed Church of New Amsterdam. Governor Stuyvesant died in 1682, and was buried beneath the chapel in a vault, which was repaired and enlarged at the building of the present church, and has continued to this time to be the sepulchre of the Stuyvesant family. His widow, who died in 1687, left the chapel in charge of the Dutch Church in New York; but it appears to have fallen into disuse, and the bequest went by default.
More than a century later Mr. Petrus Stuyvesant, the Governor's great grandson, who was a member of the corpora- tion of Trinity Church, offered to the vestry of that church the site of the chapel, 150x 190 feet, and £800 toward the build- ing of a Protestant Episcopal church upon the same spot. The offer was accepted, and a committee, consisting of Messrs. Stuyvesant, Hugh Gaine, and John Jones, was appointed to ascertain what aid could be secured for building the church. On January 19, 1795, the vestry took definite steps to raise £5,000 for the purpose, and Messrs. Stuyvesant, Carmer, Gaine and Van Horn were appointed to superintend the con- struction. The church was finished on May 9, 1799, and con- secrated on the same day by the bishop of the diocese, the Rt. Rev. Samuel Provoost.
On the 27th of August following, the vestry of Trinity Church appointed Messrs. Petrus Stuyvesant, Francis Bayard Winthrop, Gilbert Colden Willett, Mangle Minthorne, Martin Hoffman, William A. Hardenbrook, and George Rapelye trustees, and conveyed to them for the corporation of the new parish, whenever it should be formed, the church and
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surrounding land. On the 18th of October it was decided that the church should be known in law as THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF ST. MARK'S IN THE BOWERY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK. The first election of wardens and ves- trymen was also held, and Easter Tuesday fixed as the day for holding subsequent annual elections. The wardens elected were Petrus Stuyvesant, Francis B. Winthrop ; vestrymen, Gilbert C. Willett, Martin Hoffman, Wm. A. Hardenbrook, Mangle Minthorne, Wm. Ogden, George Turnbull, Nicholas W. Stuyvesant, James Cummings. At the first meeting of the vestry on November 5th, Peter G. Stuyvesant was elected clerk of the vestry, and Martin Hoffman treasurer, but the latter declined to act, and Mr. Hardenbrook was appointed.
It appears that, owing to the small amount of money ob- tained for pew rent, the vestry was forced to apply to Trinity Church for aid. At this time, it is recorded, pew rent in St. Paul's and St. George's was only five dollars a year. Thirty- five years later, May, 1837, thirty-one pews were sold for $13,735. Trinity responded by making a grant of thirty lots of city property, then yielding an annual revenue of $1,250. Attached to a legal opinion connected with this grant appears the signature of one of America's greatest statesmen, Alexan- der Hamilton.
Up to October, 1802, it seems that the church was with- out a parsonage, for the records show that on the 27th of that month Mr. Petrus Stuyvesant, whose generosity had been the means of founding the church itself, conveyed " certain lots in Eleventh Street as a site for a parsonage," and by December 6th $1,900 had been subscribed towards building it. The parsonage built upon these lots continued to be the rector's home until October, 1840, when " St. Mark's Rectory," corner of Tenth Street and Second Avenue, was finished. In 1836 a move was made to sell the old par- sonage, or exchange it for other premises closer to the church, but it was found that by the terms of the deed either recourse was impossible. In 1839 the erection of the rectory was be- gun, and on its completion the vestry voted $1,500 for the purchase of furniture.
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In August, 1803, less than a year after the foregoing dona- tion, Mr. Stuyvesant gave the church a lot, 242 x 190 feet, for a cemetery. This lot still forms a part of the burial-place of the church. On July 20, 1804, the vestry appropriated pew No. 9 for the use of Mr. Stuyvesant and his family, rent free, for ever. Another notable gift of the Stuyvesant family requires mention. In 1835 Mr. Peter G. Stuyvesant, by a gift of $25,000, founded the "St. Mark's Church in the Bowery Professorship" in the General Theological Seminary of this city.
The first communion service was purchased in 1805 with a gift of $83.34 from Mr. Ten Eyck and $20 from Mr. Har- denbrook. Those who view the fine steeple of St. Mark's, and are accustomed to see churches and steeples built to- gether in the present day, will learn with a feeling akin to incredulity that it was not built for more than a quarter of a century after the church. In 1826 the vestry resolved to erect a steeple of stone or brick, provided the expense did not exceed $5,000.
CHRIST CHURCH, NEW YORK.
In the year 1793, William Post and one hundred and seventy-two other members of Trinity Parish presented a petition to the vestry that the Rev. Joseph Pilmore might be called as an assistant minister, and a Sunday evening lecture established. This petition having been refused, the petition- ers proceeded in the same year to organize a new parish, under the name of Christ Church, and to call the Rev. Joseph Pilmore as its rector. Owing, however, to some misunder- standing between the officers of the parish and the ecclesias- tical authority of the diocese, the parish was not admitted into union with the Convention until 1802.
Christ Church erected its first house of worship on the north side of Ann Street, between William and Nassau, in 1793 ; its second, on Anthony (now Worth) Street, a few doors west of Broadway, in 1822; its third (now occupied by St. Ann's Church for deaf mutes), on Eighteenth Street, in 1854. The building which the parish now occupies, on the
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corner of Fifth Avenue and Thirty-fifth Street, was acquired from the Baptists, in exchange for its property on Eighteenth Street.
Rectors of Christ Church : Rev. Joseph Pilmore, D.D., 1793-1804; Rev. Thomas Lyell, D.D., 1804-1848; Rev. Charles Halsey, October, 1848, to May, 1855 ; Rev. Frederick S. Wiley, 1855-1862; Rev. Ferdinand C. Ewer, D.D., Novem- ber, 1862, to November, 1871 ; Rev. Hugh Miller Thompson, D.D., January, 1872, to November, 1875 ; Rev. William A. Mc Vickar, D.D., December, 1876, to September, 1877 ; Rev. J. S. Shipman, D.D., November, 1877.
Names of wardens by decades : 1794, William Newton and Jeremiah Wood; 1804, Andrew R. Miller and David Marsh ; 1814, George Dominick and Andrew R. Miller ; 1824, Israel Horsfield and Wm. Weyman ; 1834, Edward Hitchcock and Henry Fanning ; 1844, William T. Beach and Ralph I. Bush; 1854, F. J. Austin and Gardner Ambler ; 1864, S. K. Greene and Edward Stone; 1874, George W. Cass and Edward A. Quintard ; 1884, George W. Cass and Samuel Keyser.
Number of baptisms since the organization of the parish, 3,618. Of persons confirmed and of communicants there are none but recent records. Present number of communicants, about 350.
ST. JAMES' CHURCH, GOSHEN,
Was organized June 25, 1803; the first church built about 1804, and the present edifice in 1852.
The succession of rectors is as follows : Rev. Frederick Van Horne, 1799-1805 ; Rev. Cave Jones, 1805-1808; Rev. Wil- liam Powell, 1812-1814; Rev. Evan M. Johnson, 1814-1817; Rev. R. F. Cadle, 1817-1820; Rev. J. P. Cotter, 1820-1823 (deposed) ; Rev. Reuben Hubbard, 1823-1828; Rev. Nathan Kingsbury, 1831-1832; Rev. J. P. F. Clarke, 1834-1837; Rev. Thomas Mallaby, 1837-1840; Rev. J. A. Spencer, 1841-1842 ; Rev. W. P. Page, 1842-1847 ; Rev. J. T. Cushing, 1848-1854 ; Rev. S. C. Thrall, 1855-1856; Rev. J. J. Robertson, D.D., officiating minister, 1856-1858; Rev. Albert Wood, 1858-
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1862; Rev. George C. Pennell, 1862-1863; Rev. Edmund Rowland, 1864-1868; Rev. W. H. de L. Grannis, 1869-1881 ; since 1881, Rev. Mytton Maury, the present incumbent.
A rectory was purchased in 1865, and a chapel built in 1869, during the ministry of Rev. Edmund Rowland. Since organization, about 835 have received Holy Baptism, and 495 confirmed. The parish records are incomplete, but it appears that in 1812 there were 6 communicants; in 1822, 27; in 1831, 13; in 1841, 40 ; in 1856, 90; in 1862, 88. The present number is about 120.
For the successive decades (in part) the wardens have been : 1832, Henry Wisner and George D. Wickham; 1840, the same; 1850, Th. Thorne and C. F. Jackson ; 1860, C. F. Jackson and John J. Smith ; 1869, the same; 1880, J. J. Smith and George C. Miller.
It appears from the records, that "At Decker's Corner near Goshen there was an Episcopal Church before the Revo- lution." St. James', Goshen, seems to have been the parent of the church at Middletown. Rev. W. P. Page, in 1843, re- cords, " I have preached occasionally at Middletown, a village 7 miles west of this, where there is a good prospect, I think, of building up the Church." The church, chapel, and rectory have been put in thorough repair during the present rector- ship.
FRENCH CHURCH DU SAINT ESPRIT.
The " Eglise des Refugees Française à la Nouvelle York" was organized in 1687, and in 1804 became the present French Church du Saint Esprit. The first church was built in 1688, and others followed in 1704, 1834, and in 1860 the present edifice was provided. The rectors have been : Rev. Pierre Antoine Albert, 1804-1806; Rev. Henri Péneveyre, 1813-1826; Rev. Antoine Verren, 1828-1874; Rev. Leon Pons, 1874-1879 ; and Rev. Alfred Victor Wittmeyer, rector and incumbent since 1879. A rectory was purchased, but has not been occupied by any rector recently. There is no re- port of baptisms and confirmations. The present number of communicants is about 100. The wardens have been : in 1804,
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S. Hugget and R. Harrison ; in 1814, R. Harrison and G. C. Anthon; in 1824 and 1834, John Pintard and Thomas Hamersly ; in 1844, Paul Garesche and John Grange ; in 1854, Louis Loubrel and G. C. Verplank ; in 1864, Juste Lanchantin and Thomas Guille; in 1874, J. P. Schlumpf and Thomas Verren; and in 1884, P. L. Lanoir and Charles Lichtenberg.
ST. STEPHEN'S CHURCH, NEW YORK.
At a meeting for the organization of St. Stephen's Church, New York City, held on Monday in Easter week, April 19, 1805, the following gentlemen: Cornelius Schuyler and Thomas Gibbons were elected wardens, and Jacob C. Mott, Jordan Mott, Abraham Fowler, Isaac Emmons, Benjamin Clark, Benjamin Beekman, George Beck, and George Fash were elected vestrymen.
On the 22d of April, 1805, the Rev. Mr. Stroebeck was invited to the rectorship, and, being present at the meeting, accepted the invitation. Mr. Stroebeck was the minister of a Lutheran Church in Mott Street. He and the mass of his congregation conformed to the Church.
December 6, 1805, the corporation of Trinity Church granted to this church three thousand dollars.
On the 26th of December, 1805, being St. Stephen's Day, this church was consecrated to the service of Almighty God, by the Rt. Rev. Benjamin Moore, Bishop of the Diocese of New York. The Rev. Mr. Harris, Rector of St. Mark's Church in the Bowery, read divine service, and the Rev. Cave Jones, an assistant minister of Trinity Church, preached from Acts, vii. 55.
In the month of April, 1808, the vestry of Trinity Church presented to the corporation of St. Stephen's, in bonds and cash, seven thousand two hundred and fifty-four dollars and fifty-eight cents, to meet some special pressing demand on this body. In the same year Trinity Church gave to this church three lots of land, one situated on Greenwich Street, and two on Warren Street.
April 25, 1809, the Rev. Mr. Stroebeck resigned the rec- torship, having occupied it about four years.
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Five days after this resignation, the Rev. Dr. Richard Channing Moore, then officiating in Richmond, Staten Is- land, was elected to the rectorship, and on the 2d of June, 1809, he formally accepted ; the rectorship having been va- cant only twenty-four days. The Rev. Dr. Moore, while rector of this church, was elected Bishop of the Diocese of Virginia, and consecrated to that high office on the 18th of May, 1814.
On the 8th of June, 1814, the Rev. Dr. Feltus, then rec- tor of St. Ann's Church, Brooklyn, was elected to the rec- torship, and accepted the invitation.
On October 23, 1823, the land on which the church stood was purchased ; till then it had been leased.
Dr. Feltus, after an illness of four weeks, died on the 10th of August, 1828, having been rector of St. Stephen's fourteen years.
A vacancy of five months and nine days followed. On the 8th of January, 1829, the Rev. Henry Anthon, then rector of Trinity Church, Utica, N. Y., was elected, and on January 19, 1829, he accepted the rectorship, and held it about two years. On the 17th of January, 1831, he resigned it, having received an invitation to Trinity Church, in this city.
On the 19th of January, 1831, two days after the resigna- tion of Dr. Anthon, the Rev. Francis L. Hawks was unani- mously elected rector. He was instituted on the 3d of March, 1831, and on December 8, 1831, he resigned, having held the rectorship somewhat less than a year, and removed to St. Thomas' Church, on Houston Street and Broadway.
A vacancy of six months ensued, when the rectorship was accepted, on June 10, 1832, by the Rev. William Jack- son, of Alexandria, Virginia. After somewhat less than five years, he resigned it, on March 25, 1837, and removed to Louisville, Kentucky.
Two months passed, and, on May 18, 1837, the Rev. Jo- seph H. Price was elected, and on May 29, 1837, accepted the rectorship. He served the parish until 1866, for twenty- nine years, in the old edifice on the corner of Broome and Chrystie Streets, and, continuing the incumbent, seven years
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after it was sold, united with the Church of the Advent in West Forty-sixth Street, in 1873, and officiated two years longer, when he resigned the rectorship in October, 1875, and the Rev. A. B. Hart, the present incumbent, was then chosen to succeed him.
The present wardens are: James Blackhurst and Francis C. Hall; and the vestrymen are : Charles E. Fleming, Peter A. Frasse, Robert Hewitt, Edwin K. Linen, S. M. Pike, Theo. E. Smith, Wm. G. Stansbury, and Stephen R. Weeks.
ST. MICHAEL'S CHURCH, NEW YORK,
Was organized in 1807; the first church was built in 1806, and the present edifice in 1854. The rectors have been Rev. John N. Bartow, 1808-1810; Rev. Samuel Farmar Jar- vis, 1810-1819; Rev. William Richmond, 1820-1837; Rev. Jas. Cook Richmond, 1837-1842; Rev. Wm. Richmond, 1842, until his death, 1858, and Rev. Thomas M. Peters, D.D., since 1858 rector of the parish. Since organization, 2,722 baptisms are recorded, and 956 have received confirmation. In 1815 there were 30 communicants; in 1825, 20; in 1835, 78; in 1855, 45 ; in 1865, IIO; in 1875, 170; in 1885, St. Mi- chael's, 485, and Bethlehem Chapel, 107, making the whole number at present 542. In 1807 the wardens were Valentine Nutter and Edward Dunscomb; in 1815, Valentine Nutter and William Rogers; in 1825, Valentine Nutter and Wil- liam A. Davis ; in 1835, James F. De Peyster and James G. Russell; in 1845. James F. De Peyster and Abraham V. Williams ; in 1855, the same ; in 1865, James F. De Peyster and Henry Wm. Theo. Mali; in 1875, James F. De Peyster and David Tilden Brown, and in 1885, James F. Chamber- lain and William R. Peters.
GRACE CHURCH, NEW YORK.
This parish was organized in 1808. The first church, which stood on the southwest corner of Broadway and Rector Street, was consecrated December 21, 1808. The present church, at the northeast corner of Broadway and Tenth Street, was consecrated March 7, 1846. The rectors have been : Rev.
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Nathaniel Bowen, D.D., 1809-1818, and afterward Bishop of South Carolina ; Rev. James Montgomery, 1818-1820 ; Rev. Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, D.D., 1821-1833, and after- ward provisional Bishop of New York; Rev. Thomas House Taylor, D.D., 1834-1867 ; Rev. Henry Codman Potter, D.D., 1868-1883, when he became Assistant Bishop of New York; and William R. Huntington, D.D., since 1884 rector, and pres- ent incumbent. There is a rectory, built of stone, in 1848, and forming part of the architectural group of the church and its associated buildings.
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