[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] present rectory within the church grounds was built. The only land now owned by St. John's Church is St. John's Cemetery and the square on which their church rectory and Sunday-school building stand. The Sunday-school building grew out of the later needs of the church. It was erected about 1800 and has proved a valuable accession to the facilities of the people for parish and church work. At the period of the confiscation of the Manor oi Philipsburgh (1785), special legislative action became necessary for the preservation to this church of the real estate it had received from the Philipse family. By two acts, respectively in 178(3 and 1792, the New York Legislature first conveyed and then confirmed the property to it for ever. We have shown that the HISTORY OF WESTCIIKSTKR COUNTY. land on the Saw -Mill River Road is set down in the proceedings of the time as consisting of one hundred I and seven acres. It has heen stated at two hundred and even at two hundred and fifty in various papers, but we think it was never more than one hundred and seven. Down to 1828, St. John's was the only church on the west or Hudson River side of the town. Yonkers families, of whatever antecedents, worshipped in it. Its rectors officiated at all the funerals, performed all the marriage ceremonies and administered all the baptisms. Of course, therefore, among St.