THE TOWN OF WHITE PLAINS. 55 1 



church was consecrated. It cost about $39,000; tower not completed. 

 In 1863 a handsome rectory was built on the same ground, south of the 

 new church, costing $3,000. In 1S73 a Sunday-school room was com- 

 menced, 75x35 feet, to cost about $9,000 ; but it has not yet been com- 

 pleted. 



The church still owns the old site on the old post road, which is kept 

 merely as a burying ground. 



LIST OF RECTORS AND MINISTERS. 



inst. or call. Incumbents. vacated by. 



1824, Rev. W. C. Mead, Presb., resigned. 



1826, Rev. Alexander II. Crosby, A.M., Presb., •' 



1829, Rev. John W. Curtis, Presb., " " 



1831, Rev. Robert \V. Harris, A.M., " 



1855, Rev. Theodore S. Rumney, " " 



1870, Rev. F. B. Van Kleeck, " present rector. 



On the 19th of March. 1874, a large number of literary gentlemen of 

 the county met in the village of White Plains at the following call: — 



Dear Sir:— "We, tbe undersigned, bave long felt the want in common with 

 others of a County Historical Society. Upon consultation with prominent men 

 we have been asked to call a meeting to organize such a Society for Westchester 

 county. And beg to name Thursday, March 19th, at 2 p.m., at the Orawaupunn 

 Hotel. White Plains ; and hope you will take an interest, and if possible attend 

 the meeting. Signed, 



Rev. Robt. Bolton, Jas. E. Malloey. 



Rev. C. W. Bolton, Jas. B. Cunningham, 



Wm. Coventry H. Waddell, Ed. J. Carpenter, 



Effingham Cock. 



The Society was organized under the following Act : — 



AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WEST- 

 CHESTER COUNTY, IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK. 

 T7ie People of the State of Neio York, represented in the Senate and Assembly 

 do enact as follows : 



§ 1. Rev. Robert Bolton, Wm. Coventry H. Waddell, James B. Cunningham, 

 Effigham Cock, Rev. C. W. Bolton, James E. Mallory, Edward J. Carpenter, 

 Wm. II. Robertson, Clarkson N. Potter, James W. Husted, Robert Rutherford 

 Morris. John Jay, Walter White Evans, Edward F. Delancy, O. R. Willis, Wm. 

 B. Tibbits, Henry Wood. John Jay Wood, Joseph Barrett, James Wood, Rev. 

 Charles Baird, David Rowe, Edward Wells, John Dewitt, Robert P. Getty, I. T. 

 Williams, Wm. Cauldwell, Amherst Wight, Robert S. Haviland, and their asso- 

 ciates who are now or may be hereafter associated for the purposes of this Act, 



