[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] shop, stood northwest of it, ami to the west of the carriage-shop, in front of where Hawley's building (recently "Bedford Hall") now stands, was a country store kept by Multus Cooper and Aaron Vatk. There were also a small saw and grist-mill near where Peek's mill now is, a house belonging to St. John's Church, standing partly between the church and the road, and occupied by Gilbert Guion, Mr. Howland's farm-house, then newly built, the old house on Guion Street near School Street and perhaps three or four other buildings of less importance. All of these buildings, with one or two exceptions, were situated on Mr. How-I land's property, and constituted the whole hamlet of Yonkers of that day. Mr. Baldwin took an early and active part in the establishment of a school. Colonel Philipse, before the Revolution, had maintained one for the benefit of his tenauts. His school-house, it is said, stood between the manor-house am) the river. But tin' Revolution had broken up his school, and there hud been none in the immediate neighborhood since. Mr. Baldwin found a dilapidated school-house on the Post road, near the corner of Valentine's Lane, and another on Guion's Lane, but neither was now lit for use. A small house that he had. at his first coming, built for Mr. Howland's gardener, and whic h stood on the Post road (m arly opposite the present Temperance Hal 1 1, became vacant soon afterwards, and was hired for a school-house at one dollar a month. Mr.