358 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



• ' By His Excellency, Geoege Washington, &c. 

 a proclamation." 

 "Be it known that every day during ye time ye army remains in its present 

 position from day to day-break till noon, two market-places will be open for ye 

 supply of ye army. One near His Excellency's head -quarters in ye field, just 

 back of ye house and near the quarters of ye Adjutant aud Quartermaster-Gen- 

 erals' ; the other in the French camp near the house of Henry Taylor, which is 

 ye head-quarters of His Excellency the Count de Eochambeau, <fcc., &c. 

 " Given at head-quarters near Dobb's Ferry, this 10th day of July, 1781. 



Geokge Washington. 

 "By His Excellency's command, 



J ox. Trumbull, Jr., Sec" a 



The French officers at this time were Count de Rochambeau, Com- 

 mander-in-chief; Chevalier de Chastellux, Major-General; M. de Choicy, 

 Brigadier of the forces ; Charles and Alexandre, Chevaliers de Larnoth> 

 Charles was Adjuant- General; Duke de Louzun; Lieutenant-General 

 Baron de Viomenil ; Count de Vio Menil ; Count de Lauberbiere ; 

 Count de Baular; Major- General and Chevalier de Beville. Two Broth- 

 ers Berchier, Sub-Lieutenant after General of Cavalry Killamaire, and 

 Count de Fersen, Count Charles de Dumas and Count Matthieu Dumas. 



The summits of the Greenburgh hill command a variety of beautiful 

 prospects, in which long reaches of the East River, Bronx valley and 

 Scarsdale, form the principal features. In the south-east corner of 

 Greenburgh is situated Greenville, where there is a Dutch Reformed 

 church, and a few scattered dwellings. 



The Dutch Church of this place was first organized in 1842, under 

 the pastoral charge of the Rev. V. M. Hulbert of Yonkers, and incor- 

 porated on the 3d of December, 1842, by the title of the " Minister, 

 Elders and Deacons of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Green- 

 ville, in the town of Greenburgh." First elders, John Dusenberry and 

 Charles Dusenberry; first deacons, Ichabod Smith and Benjamin Car- 

 penter. 



LIST OF MINISTERS. 



Me. Hulbeet was succeeded by the Rev. Abel T. Stewart. 



A. T. Stewart, dismissed from Greenville and Bronxville, July 23d, 1852. 



Joseph A. Collier, installed over Greenville and Bronxville "1st Sabbath of 

 October," 1852. Dismissed May 14, 1855. 



Aaron Marcellus, installed over Greenville and Bronxville, July 17, 1856, 

 and dismissed August 24, 1859- During his pastorate Bronxville was set off, and 

 thenceforth Greenville had its own pastor. 



C R. V. Romonat, installed over Greenville only, Feb. 29, 1860. Dismissed 

 April 16, 1861. 



John H. Pitcher, installed Dec. 10, 1861. Dismissed April 15, 1873. 



Richard L. Sohoonmaker, installed May 19, 1874. Is still pastor. 



a McDonald MSS. in possession of Geo. H. Moore, Lib. of N. T. Hist. Soc. 

 6 Upcott Cuttings, vol. iv, 17T0, 17TT, 1780, vol. viii, vol. vi, 17S0. 



