[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] event being held September J 8, 177o, and the next on i April 5, 1790, nearly eight years after the close of the war. This silence of the records during that long period tells, more forcibly than any entries in them could have told, of the troubles of those gloomy times. The sufferings of the poor inhabitants of the country around, the almost utter disorganization that society itself had fallen into, left little time to attend to the affairs of the church. Beverly Robinson endowed the united parishes of St. Philip's in the Highlands and St. Peter's in the Manor of Cortlandt with a farm of I two hundred acres. This property was afterwards sold I under an order of the Court of Chancery, and divid-ed equally between the two churches. The large Bible belonging to the church bears an inscription on a fly-leaf, stating that it was the girt of Susannah Philipse, wife of Beverly Robinson. In the western part of the church-yard stands the monument marking the grave of John Paulding, the captor of Major Andre, which is mentioned further on. The landscape of this quiet and secluded valley has undergone but little change since the Revolution-ary days. Standing at twilight in the old church-yard, and looking across at the purple hills, it requires ' but little exertion of fancy to imagine them covered, as they once were, with gleaming rows of Continen-tal tents.