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1869, Rev. Thomas A. Jaggai:, D.D., now Bishop, " " 



Nov. 1870, Rev. William S. Langford, " " 



Dec, 1875, Rev. A. B. Atkins. D. D., " " 



Oct., 1879, Rev. James Houghtox, Present incumbent. 



There is also a Reformed Dutch Church standing directly south of 

 St. John's, situated upon rising ground. This church was erected on a 

 portion of the estate of the late Lemuel Wells, Esq., which was given by 

 his heirs in 1844. The building is a neat edifice of brick. The interior 

 arrangements, and fittings up, are peculiarly appropriate, being neat 

 and simple. A chaste pulpit and communion table, occupy the west 

 end, while a gallery extends across the eastern. 



This church was incorporated under the act of 1813, dated July 13, 

 1844. Lemuel W. Wells and Ducan McFarland, elders; Frederick 

 Nodine and Ralph Shipman, deacons. The first installed pastor was 

 the Rev. V. M. Hurlbert, present minister. 



There appears to have been a Dutch Reformed congregation in this 

 town as early as 1784, "called the Reformed Dutch Church at the Lower 

 Mills, in the Manor of Phillipsborough," incorporated under the Act of 

 1784, dated September 8th, 1786; William Warner, Abraham Odell, 

 Isaac Vermilyea, James McChain, Jacobus Dyckman, trustees. 



The Methodist Episcopal church was organized March 1st, 1828, un- 

 der the name and title of Christ church : first trustees, Joseph Oakley, 

 Frederick Shonnard, Thomas Griffen and David Oakley. 



North-west of the city is Wild Boar Hill, a so called from the animal 

 that once frequented the solitudes of its ancient forests. So troublesome 

 and numerous had this animal become at one period, that the Provincial 

 Government was compelled to pass laws for its destruction. 



Up to a late era, Indians occupied this hill in great numbers. From 

 here they are all said to have taken their departure in one night. The 

 scarcity of the wild game, together with the encroachments of the white 

 man, may in some measure, account for this sudden removal. 



During one period of the Revolution it was the site of the American 

 encampment. Its summit commands fine views of the surrounding 

 country and the noble Hudson, stretching in one long reach to Jersey 

 City. 



Somewhere near this spot there formerly stood a peculiar shaped tree, 

 as if adapted by nature to receive the body of a man. In this rustic 

 couch, the illustrious Washington, wearied with his toils, slept for two 

 hours ; his trusty guide, Martin Post, watching. b 



a This hill is laid down in General Washington's surveyed map of the county, as Boar hill. 

 b Post was at tnis time attached to Col. Scuammel's regiment. 



