[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] A congregation of Episcopalians was formed in Peeks-kill as early as 1823, under the name of St. Paul's Church. In 1838 the glehe owned jointly hy St. Peter's Church, at Cortlandtville, and St. Philip's Church, of Putnam County, having been sold for five thou-sand dollars,the proceeds were divided equally and the twenty-five hundred dollars belonging to St. Peter's Church, together with a donation of one thousand dollars from Trinity Church, of New York City, were used the same year to erect a chapel for the Episco-palians in Peekskill. Owing to its more central situ-ation it became at once of more importance than the parent church, and finally, as narrated in the history of the latter, superseded it entirely. By an act of incorporation passed in 1840, it received the title of "St. Peter's Church, Cortlandt, in the Village of Peekskill." The church is a frame structure, built in the Gothic style. The successive rectors have beeu as follows : Install d. April, 1M38 Rev. William C. Cooley March 3, 1841 Rev. Hoses Marcos June 7, 1843 Rev. William Barlow