Incorporation Records of St. John's Church,
1784
St. John’s Episcopal Church, located at Hudson Street and Getty
Square in Yonkers, was founded by Frederick Philipse III in 1753. It continued
in service for more than 100 years. After the Civil War, when Yonkers had become
a real city, a new, much larger church was built on the site of the old one.
One wall of the old church was preserved and built into the new structure.
In 1784 an act of the New York State Legislature required that all religious
societies establish boards of trustees, and the Yonkers Episcopal Society filed
papers with the Westchester County Clerk to comply with this act in 1787. The
certificate is filed in Liber A of the Westchester County Clerk’s Record
of Religious Societies.
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