History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 53
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] St. John's, on Broadway; St. John's, at Tuckahoe; the Methodist Episcopal, at Tuckahoe; St. Mary's and St. Joseph's. Yonkers has now six cemeteries, two of which, both at Tuckahoe, are still church-yards, their churches standing within the grounds. To these grave-yards we have made sufficient reference already in the histories of their churches. Of the other four we shall speak more at length and in the order of their earliest dates. St. John's Cemetery. — This is the oldest public burial-place in Yonkers. It was provided for by the bequest of Frederic Philipse (Second) to St. John's Church. How soon after it was opened for use, how-ever, does not appear. Bolton (Church in Westchester 150 HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY. County, p. 525) says the first interment on record in this cemetery took place in 1783. It is said that its