[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] James Wetmore, of Rye, conducted divine service according to the Epis-copal form in the old village of Peekskill. In 1746 Mr. Wetmore wrote that, "as there are great numbers of people in the wilderness northward of Bedford and Westchester who have very little knowledge or sense of religion, Mr. Lamson's labors will be employed to good purpose among them." (Who Mr. Lamson was is not clear.) Mr. Dibble, of Stamford, Conn., officiated in 1761, probably at some private house. He says in a letter, which has been preserved, that he found " no settled teacher of any denomination here, but met several heads of families professors of the Church of England, and many others well dis-posed toward it." In 1750, Andrew Johnson, a resident of Perth Am-boy, N. J., son-in-law of Stephanus Van Cortlandt, for the sum of five pounds, conveyed to Caleb Hall, Joseph Travis and Pelatiah Hawes six acres of land ly-ing at a place called Peekskill, on the north side of the Crompond road, to be used as a site for a school-house, burying-ground, and a meeting-house or meet-ing-houses for the religious (under the protection of His Majesty) such as the adherents of the Church of England, the Presbyterians, Independents, Baptists, or Congregationalists, etc., but for no other purpose. Sixteen years afterwards, in 1766, a church was be-gun, and on the 9th of August, 1767, it was opened and consecrated by the Rev. John Ogilvie, D.D., of New York. Dr. Ogilvie gave the church the name of "St.