[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] " TlIK CoUI'ORATION Of the City of New York, Erecteil this Tomb, As memorial sacred to PUBLIC GRATITUDE." This monument, with the exception of the placing of the cone on the pedestal, was completed November 22, 1827, and at one o'clock in the afternoon of the same day the officers of the corporation ofXew York City arrived in Peekskill by the steamboat " Sandus-ky," to see it finished, and hold exercises appropri-ate to the occasion. They were received in Peekskill by a committee of arrangements consisting of Gen-eral Pierre Van Cortlandt, General Philip Van Cort-landt, Daniel W. Birdsall, St. John Constant, Ward B. Howard, Benjamin Dyckman, Dr. Peter Goetchius, James Mandeville and Dr. Samuel Strang, and, to-gether with a large concourse of the people of the town, they advanced in procession to the cemetery, about two miles and a half distant. The column was lowered to its place on the pedestal, and an address was made by William Paulding, mayor of the city of New York, after which the assembly separated, "deeply impressed with the ceremony and the occa-