THE TOWN OF NORTH CASTLE. 715 



The Rev. Robert Jenney, rector of Rye, wrote the Venerable Propa- 

 gation Society, in 1722: "I have lately been to a settlement in the 

 woods, where I had good success, having baptized a whole family — pa- 

 rents and children." This refers to the present parish; for in 1728 Mr. 

 James Wetmore, his successor, informs the same, " that at North Castle, 

 a new settlement in the woods, there are more than forty families, most 

 of which are unbaptized, and that he preaches there every fifth Sunday." 

 For a number of years North Castle was destitute of religious privileges, 

 until the Rev. Robert Harris, D.D., revived the cause. 



The present church, St. Stephens, was organized on the 10th of Oc- 

 teber, 1842, in'a log cabin, at Mile Square (as" the village was then call- 

 ed), and a church edifice erected, at a cost of $2,000, and was conse- 

 crated September 13, 1S43. The rectory was built in 1870, on ground 

 presented by William R. Carr, Esq., at a cost of $4,000. 



LIST OF RECTORS. 



OAIX. NAME. RESIGNATION. 



1842 Rev. Robert Harris, D.D. 1853 



1853 Rev. J. D. Vermilye, 186-i— died 



1865 Joseph Wm. Hyde, 1S67 



1867 C. W. Bolton, Resigned Nov., 1880. 



The old Methodist church stood north of the village in the old bury- 

 ing ground, and was one of the oldest churches, out of the city of New 

 York — being incorporated 2d February, 1792 ; it was sold in 1875, and 

 a new church erected in 1873, m tne village of Armonk, at a cost of 

 $11,000, on the corner of two highways, on land bought of William R. 

 Carr, Esq., and near where the old log cabin stood. Upon Wampus 

 brook a grist mill stands, which, on the 5th of April, 1737, John Hallock 

 received permission to erect, near Able Weeks'. 



One of the principal proprietors of Bedford NeAv Purchase in 1746 

 was Othniel Sands* whose son, Caleb, subquently removed to North 

 Castle. In 1728 Jas. Sands, of Nassau Island, conveyed to his son, 

 Othniel, a farm. On the 16th of October, 1790, Thomas Sands (son of 

 Caleb) purchased of William Latting and Sarah, his wife, "one hundred 

 and twenty acres of land and all the buildings and mills on the same, 

 which said land and mills are situated in the town of North Castle," &c. 

 The Sands family were originally seated at St. Bees, in Cumberland 

 County, England, and are descended from Richard del Sandys, who was 

 returned a knight for the shire in 1377. & Of this family was Comfort 



a Situated in tne township of Oyster Bay. 



6 Burke's Hist, of tne Commoners of England, 



