Old St. Peter's Church (Van Cortlandtville, New York)

Old St. Peter's Church and Old Van Cortlandtville Cemetery, also known as St. Peter's Church and Old Cemetery of Cortlandt is a historic Episcopal church and churchyard at Oregon Road and Locust Avenue in Van Cortlandtville—a historic neighborhood of the town of Cortlandt, Westchester County, New York. The church was built in 1766 and restored in 1964. A wood-frame building sheathed in clapboards, it measures 28 feet by 36 feet. The nearby Elmsford Reformed Church was built in 1793 and is a close replica. During the Revolutionary War, the church was attended by General George Washington when he stayed at Van Cortlandt Upper Manor House and also served as a field hospital for Comte de Rochambeau's French troops. Its churchyard contains graves of 8 French soldiers and 44 American soldiers, with memorial markers. John Paulding, a Revolutionary War militiaman famous for capturing spy Major John André, was buried in the cemetery in 1818. (He was a lifelong resident and prominent figure of the Cortlandt area) A large marble monument was erected over his grave in 1827 by the City of New York. In 2017, a new bronze plaque was dedicated at his gravesite to clarify the original, weathered text of the 90-year-old monument. Major General Seth Pomeroy, who died in Peekskill in February 1777 on his way to reinforce General George Washington’s Continental Army with his Massachusetts militi

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