[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] It was forty-five feet front, sixty-five feet deep and twenty-two feet high, and contained a basement underneath the whole. It was repaired and enlarged in 1864 and in 1876. The cost upon the latter oc-casion was over nine thousand dollars. April 14, 1858, a lot thirty by one hundred and fifty feet in extent, located on Smith Street, and con-taining a building, was purchased for one thousand seven hundred dollars, and the house as a parsonage. Another small lot was added some time afterwards, and CORTLANDT. :■{«»-» the building was remodeled and enlarged. It is now valued at three thousand dollars, and the valuation of the church is twelve thousand dollars. There have been many revivals of religion in this church, the greatest of which in their visible results occurred in the years 1857 and 1858, under the min-istry of the Rev. D. L Marks. In the first year there were sixty conversions, and in the following year six hundred. Of the latter number, four hundred joined the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1864 St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church, an offshoot of this church, was established. Peekskill was on a circuit until the year 1843, when a pastor was stationed at the church. The successive pastors have been as follows : 1843 John M. Pease. 1844-45 Salmon C. Perry. 1846-47. Fitch Heed. 1848-49 Richard A. Chalker.