'• Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from henceforth : yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors ; and their works do follow them."-- Rkv. xiv : 13.

There is not an individual member of the church living, who was present when Rev. Mr. Grant was installed here. Officers and private members have all passed away. And there is only one member of the church living who followed their beloved pastor to his grave and saw his remains deposited in their mother dust. Our fathers, where are they ? and the prophets, do they live forever? Only a few months elapsed before the church was again supplied with a pastor. April 16, 1822, the Rev. Jacob Green was called and installed pastor of this church, and remained here a faithful standard-bearer, a consistent, godly and acceptable

HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.

preacher for twenty-seven years. Mr Green was a graduate of Rutger's College, N. J., and studied theology at the Princeton Theological Seminary, which he entered the first year it opened, in 1812, and remained two years. He was a native of Hanover, N. J., and was first settled in Suckasunny, N. J. Leaving this, his first charge, he was afterwards appointed a domestic missionary in Western Virginia, where he was married. From this field, he was called to take charge of the Presbyterian church of this place, April 16, 1822. Mr. Green was the nephew of the venerable and distinguished Ashbel Green, one of the former Presidents of Princeton College, and author of some valuable theological works. The labors of Mr. Green in the church, as many now living are ready to bear witness, were greatly blessed. The church by his fidelity was greatly enlarged, and many new plans were adopted for its greater efficiency at home and in the foreign fields.