[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Peter's Church." This was the same build-ing which is standing at present. The congregation of St. Peter's Church, fearing that the expense of the erection and maintenance of a house of worship would be too great for them to bear, had " entered into an agreement with the people in the lower end of Philipse's upper patent, in the 386 BISTORT OF WKSTCHESTER COUNTY. county of Dutchess, to join in the building of St. Peter's Church, and in the subscription for the sup-port of a minister." St. Peter's Church in return, when it should obtain a missionary, was to have him settled for both places, so as to make one congrega-tion of the whole, and the minister was to preach every other Sunday in the house of John Mandeville, in Philipse's patent, about eight miles distant. On the 18th of August, 1770, the people of both places were incorporated as one body by Lieutenant-Gover-nor Cadwallader Colden, of the province of New York, and confirmed in possession of the church, the ground whereon the same was built, and the cemetery be-longing to the same. Beverly Robinson and Charles Moore were constituted wardens of the church and Jeremiah Drake, Caleb Ward, John Johnson, Joshua Nelson, Thomas Davenport and Henry Davenport, vestrymen. John Doty, a son of Joseph Doty, of New York,