666 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



possession of Mr. Baldwin, of Lake Mahopac. " The house of Mrs. 

 Johnson stood on the church property, a little south of the Congrega- 

 tional Meeting House."* 



A Presbyterian society in this town appears to have been first organ- 

 ized under the ministry of the Rev. Samuel Sackett, about 1740. Upon 

 the 2nd of January, 1739, we & n ^ a deed for three acres of land given 

 by Joseph Lane, Henry Beekman and Gertrude, his wife, unto John 

 Hyatt, John Haight and David Travis, trustees for the first Presbyterian 

 church, on which land the meeting house was erected; (said three 

 acres being part of two hundred and twenty acres leased to Joseph Lane 

 for three lives, 25th March, 1737,) dated 2nd of January, 1739, accord- 

 ing to the act of 1784, and the act of 1S01.'' 



The following title occurs in an old hog skin record formerly in the 

 possession of the Rev. Silas Constant : — 



" A Record of the Proceedings of the Presbyterian Society of Hanover, from 

 the seventh Day of Aug., in the Thirty Fourth yearof the Reign of our Sovereign 

 Lord George the Second by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France, Ireland 

 &c, and in the year of our Lord Christ one Thousand and seven Hundred and 

 sixty. An. Dom. 1760. " c 



On the 26th of May, 1784, this Society was incorporated under the 

 name and title of the "First Presbyterian Society, upon the plan of the 

 Church of Scotland." Aaron Furman, Gilbert Travis, Ebenezer White, 

 Elijah Lee, Henry Strong and Gabriel Carman, trustees; elected 3d of 

 May, 1784. A re-incorporation of the same occurs on the 4th of March, 

 iSo6.<< 



The Presbyte?-ian Church is handsomely located on the highest ground 

 of the village, commanding a fine view of the surrounding country ; it 

 was built in 1799, on the site of an older edifice erected cir. 1738, and 

 destroyed by fire in June or July, 1799. The late Thomas Strong 

 testified "that when the British, under Abercrombie, came to Crompond 

 and burnt Strong's house, it was in the afternoon. But when their light 

 horse arrived under Tarleton, it was early in the morning of the 24th 

 of June. Tarleton came up by a circuitous route, following the Croton 



a Ti=timony of Mrs. — nvatt, of Somers. In reply to an enquiry on this subject, the ttev. 

 ^:. Hyatt thus addressed tbe author. "8t. James's Rectory, South Santee, Jan. 13th 1853.— 

 thlnst., making enquiry respecting "a certain piecelof property 

 in Yorktown said to have been given for the use of the Church " All thai I can say in n-ply 

 is, that the late Thomas strou;-- of Crompond, assured me of the fact that there was land 

 given for an Episcopal Church, and thai it was near the Congregational Meeting House. I 

 emember by whom it was given, or how much was given. My impression is that it 

 rely for a Bite for the church, though it may have been more. The time it was given 

 I think was about t in* period of the Revolutionary war " 

 b County Rec. Religious Soc. Lib. A, 83. 

 c Kindly furnished by the Rev. W. J. Cummings. 

 ri* Co. Rec. Regions Soc. Lib. A, pp. 7T, 79, 81 , 83, 147. 



