[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] itl III! it. 1 « CORTLANDT. 417 ehurch was built at Montrose Point, capable of seat-ing two hundred persons. With the reetory adjoin-ing, the property is valued at twenty thousand dol-lars. A cemetery of about three-fourths of an acre adjoins the church, and contains about a dozen graves, among them being those of Mrs. Anna Maria Scriba, mother of United States Bank Examiner Augustus M. Scriba, and Nicholas Cruger and Eliza Kortright, his wile, parents of the rector. A chapel was built at Verplanck's Point in 1879, and is valued at two thous-and dollars. It has seats for about one hundred per-sons. The parish was formed with a membership of twelve, which has increased to seventy-one. TheSun-day-sehool has one hundred and forty members. The bell in the church tower weighs eleven hundred pounds and is claimed to be the finest toned in the country. On Montrose Point is located the handsome resi-dence of Mn Frederick P. Seward, in the midst of about thirty acres of land which formerly belonged to the " Parson's farm." Mr. Seward is the son of Lincoln's famous Secretary of State and has himself