THE ASBURY METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.

About 1807 the congregation being of such importance necessitated the building of a church for the growing society. The first class was probably formed at the house of Mrs. Childs, under the hill below what is now known as the Cliff House. Mr. Wm. Requa offered a plot of ground on the corner of Maine street and Windel Park which was accepted, and a society was incorporated to build a church on this spot. They met at the house of Mr. Wm. Requa to take the proper legal measures. The certificate of this incorporation was filed in Westchester County Clerk's Office, March 1st, 1808. Under this the church existed as a body corporate until about the year 1820 or 21, when the annual meeting for the election of trustees seems to have been omitted and the corporation ceased to exist. About August, 182 1, a reorganization took place and the name given to the new corporation was "The Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Tarrytown in the town of Greenburgh and County of Westchester," which was filed Nov. 14th, 182 1. The present title of the church -- "Asbury Methodist Episcopal Church" -- was probably adopted on the erection of it. At the meeting of the society first named, Mr. Wm. Requa conveyed lots for the building of the new church on the corner of Main street and Windel Park, and on which the first Methodist Episcopal church of Tarrytown was subsequently erected.

" It was a pleasing sight to see, when this little church was erected, the good old members wending their way to church of an evening with lighted candles in their hands. What a methodistical appearance they presented ! The men seated on one side, and the women and children on the other.