THE TOWN OF HARRISON. 385 



In the Halstead plot is the following epitaph to the memory of Charity 

 Huggerford, the wife of the celebrated partisan officer of the Revolu- 

 tionary war, viz., Major William Lainey Huggerford: — 



The Remains of 

 CHARITY HUGGERFORD 



lies here, 

 Called to the eternal world 

 the 10th day of July, 1807, 

 In the 52d year of her age. 



In this cemetery are also interred the mortal remains of Cornelius 

 Oakley, one of the distinguished Westchester guards to General Wash- 

 ington during the Revolutionary War. a 



The Friends in Harrison are not so numerous as they once were ; but 

 are still a respectable and influential community. They are a peaceable 

 and quiet people, frugal and simple in their habits and manners, strictly 

 moral, careful of their' poor, and abhor all kinds of oppression. 



The old meeting-house still stands unadorned, in a small woods; near 

 by is the grave-yard where most of the families of this community rest. 6 



REGULATIONS ADOPTED BY 

 PURCHASE MONTHLY MEETING OF FRIENDS, 



HELD SIXTH MONTH, IOTH, 1 874, 



RESPECTING INTERMENT IN THEIR BURIAL-GROUNDS. 



Applications for Interments in the Burial Grounds belonging to the Purchase 

 Monthly Meeting, must be made to one or more members of the Funeral Com- 

 mittee, one of which should be most convienient to the late residence of the de- 

 ceased. Should no manifest objection appear, they may grant the necessary 

 permit, signed by them and subject to the conditions hereinafter stated. 



As our Burial Grounds are fast filling up, the Committee are authorized to re- 

 fuse Permits for Interment of the body of any person who was not a member of 

 our Society, and had not a Husband or Wife, Parent or Child, Brother or Sister, 

 interred within the Grounds. 



The Funeral must be conducted under the care and direction of the Funeral 

 Committee, and the order established by Friends for such occasions must be con- 

 formed to. 



Extravagant expenses and floral decorations are to be avoided. 



No Clergyman is to be employed or called upon to perform any Religious Ser- 

 vices wJiatever. 



No Grave-Stones are to be placed in these Grounds containing any inscription, 

 except the name of the deceased, with the name of Husband or Wife, or Parents, 

 when desired ; and the date of Birth and Death, and shall not exceed sixteen 

 inches in width, five inches in thickness, and the necessary height above the sur- 

 face of the ground, to receive the aforesaid inscription legibly. 



a Miss Sarah Oakley a daughter of the above mentioned Cornelius residing with Nathaniel 



Valentine at Tuckahoe, Oct. 20, 1849, informed Mr. McDonald " that about a year ago '1850) she 



■ went with other relations to the Quaker bnrying ground in Purchase where they identified 



the grave of their father, &c. They then had a plain stone prepared and put up ; such as the 



Quakers allow, &c. — McDonald MSS. in possession of Moore of New York Hist. Soc, 



b Records of the Society in Harrison, and Baird's History of Rye. 



