[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] lected towards buying back the church, which is valued at twenty-five hundred dollars. The number of members in 1884 was only six, but the average attendance each Sunday was forty or fifty. A rlour-ishinji Sundav-school in addition was attended by forty scholars. William Crumb is its superintendent. The trustees of the church are as follows : Charles E. States, Henry Tunson, Abrain Jackson, David Jack-son and Oeorge Hutchison. education. District Schools of Peekskill. — The village of Peekskill is embraced in School Districts Nos. 7 and 8, which are the most populous in the town. Each contains a large and handsome school-house. The histories of these districts are as follows: The first school-house in District No. 7, and indeed of the village of Peek-kill, was situated on the brow of the hill, on the north side of South Street, about half-way from Division Street to the foot of the hill. It was burnt, as a map of " the village as it was in 1800" records, about the beginning of the century. Its successor was " the old yellow school-house." which probably stood in the same place, and was just oppo-site the present residence of William Amos. About the year 1841* a new and large school-house was erected on a lot on the north side of South Street, some hundred feet or more east of the old one. and just opposite the foot of Smith Street. The school becoming too small, an effort was made to combine' with District No. S in constructing one large school, CORTLAND'!'.