[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] to succeed him, who is settled there." * rONK ERS. 57 through the liberality of the Philipse family. The second lord Philipse, taking possession of his manor here about 1719, cherished with liberality till his death in 1751, the missionary work of the parish of Westchester carried on between the Hudson and the Bronx. In bis will, dated June 6, 1751, less than two months before he died, he devised in trust to his heirs a farm with residence and outbuildings for the use of ministers who might be called to labor here in the service of the Church of England, and directed that his executors should expend £400 from the ren-tals of his manor, in erecting on the farm a church building for the use of the people. The third lord, known as Colonel Philipse, carried out the will of his father so far as to set apart the farm devised for the useof the ministers, but with wise forecast himself donated, for the church building, the central and far more convenient site which St. John's Church has always occupied. This latter plot was origi-nally somewhat larger than it now is. Its lines on Broadway and Hudson Streets remain unchanged. But it has been much reduced on the west by the opening of Riverdale Avenue, and somewhat increased on the north-