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TWO CENTURIES OF TRINITY HISTORY
In Trinity Chapel hang the portraits
| of all the rectors from the Rev. Comp.
ton to the Rev. DR.. Dix. To DR.,
Vesey, who was the rector for nearly
fifty years-from 1897 to 1746-the
early prosperity of the church is large
ly due. His salary was one hundred
pounds year. Under him the con-
gregation grew rapidly, and in 172O
the church was enlarged. A descrip-
tion Of it, written in 1877, describes it
thus:,-
1t stands very pleasantly on the banks
of Hudson river, and has large cemetery
on the east side. Before it long walk is
railed of from the Broad Way, the pleas
ATTEST street of any in the town.
1t was during DR.. Vesey's rule that
Trinity received the grant that was
the source of its great wealth. In 1705
tract of land known as the Queens
Farm was made over to the church
corporation. 1t extended from St.
Paul's Chapel to Skinner Row, now
more pompously known as Christopher
street. 1t was considered of no great
value, and was described as "a wild
marshy spot of no inconsiderable ex-
tent, surrounded with bushes and bull
rushes, which in winter is a favorite
place for skaters, and at certain sea.
sons for gunners."
For long time this property yield
ed no income whatever. The first
mention of it as a source of revenue
was in 1850, when it was rented to
one Adam Vanderburg tor two hun
dred dollars year, be promising to
cut no timber or wood off the farm,
and to leave on it one thousand, one
hundred and ninety panels of sufficient
fence.
As the growth Of the city made the
immense value Of the tract apparent,
Trinity was not ungenerous with it.
Most of it has been given away. Co.
lumbia, Trinity School, St. Georges
Church, st. Marks and Grace Church
all received considerable slices of it.
Even some of the Presbyterian
churches had gifts.
For eighteen years after DR.. Vesey's
death DR.. Barclay was the rector OF
Trinity. He was followed by the Rev.
Samuel Auchmuty, man of Scotch
parentage, born in Boston and gradu-
ated from Harvard.
During the Revolution, Trinity was
not popular with good citizens. Its
connection with England was too init
mate, and the sympathies ofits clergy
men were too widely known to be
Tory. During the occupation Of New
York by the Revolutionary troops the
church was closed, but when the
British captured the city, it opened
again, the Rev. Mr., Inglis, one Of DR..
Auchmuty's assistants, conducting
services.
After the Revolution, in 1884, the
Rev. Samuel Provost was elected the
first rector under the new regime. DR..
Moore succeeded DR.. Provost in 1900,
and Was followed in 1916 by the Rev.
John Henry Hobart. He remained
rector until 1880, when the Rev. Will
liam Berrian followed him. Since DR..
Berrian's death, in 1862, the Rev. Dr..
Morgan Dix has been at the head of
Trinity.
No history Of Trinity is complete
without the story of Anneke JaEs.
She, was a Dutchwoman who died ir
1868. To her and her husband, one
Bogardus, the Dutch colonial govern
ment gave a tract of land west of
Broadway. When Anneke died, the
Dutch governor resumed possession of
the grant, although there were heirs.
Later, under British rule, thirty acres
of the land weat to Trinity.
There have sprung up from time to
time persons who claim to be the de-
scendants of Anneke Jams. As such,
they also claim, with lofty disregard
for the statute of limitations, the pos
session Of the thirty acres which
Trinity has held for so long q time.
A suit brought more than half Gen.
tury ago definitely disposed of the
claim, in favor of the church, but this
has not prevented heirs from appear
ing in the most unexpected places,
with the most unexpected names and
the most unexpected lawyers.-S.
DEXTER Hamilton, IN Munsey's Magazine.
The class in geography in one of the
Brooklyn schools was asked by the
teacher: "What are some of the natu-
raj peculiarities of Long Island?" The
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