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HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



age as barracks and store houses, during the Revolutionary war." This 



appropriation, however, was never made by Congress. 



The present edifice" is constructed of wood, presenting in front a lofty 



colonnade, above which rises a neat tower, finished with a rich cornice 



and pinnacles, in which is a large bell weighing over 600 lbs., inscribed 



as follows : 



" Cast by J. II. Thompson, New York, 1823." 



The Rev. Samuel Sackett, first pastor of this society, was the son of the 

 Rev. Richard Sackett, minister of the second society of Greenwich, in 

 1717, who graduated A.M. at Yale College, in 1709, and died in 1727. 



Presbyterian Church, Crompond. 



He was installed pastor of the Bedford society in 1743, and charged 

 with the occasional supply of Salem and Cortlandt manor. 



In 1747, Crompond obtained his services for half his time, and in 

 December, 1749, he was released from his labors here and gave the 

 whole of his time to Bedford. In 1753, he resigned the care of the 

 church in Bedford and settled at once over the church of Hanover, and 

 again he appears to have gone back to Bedford, was dismissed April 1st, 

 1760, and the next year was installed again in Crompond. Mr. Sackett 

 had a great deal of trouble with his brethren in the Presbytery. He dif- 

 fered widely with them, in both the doctrine and government of the Presby- 

 terian church. On the whole he preached for twenty years here, and 



a The celebrated Sampson Occom, of the Michign tribe, preached in this church on one 

 occasion. 



