A curious entry is found in the old Trustee minutes, in which it is ordered, that "hereafter, (1840) the males and females should enter the church by separate doors, and sit on the opposite sides of the aisles, and that the seats under the gallery be assigned to the colored members.'' These regulations were posted in the vestibule of the church. The parsonage was built on a lot directly north of the church in 1854, at a cost of $4,800.

In 1857, the church was enlarged twenty-five feet in length; and in 1865, the entire indebtedness of $5,620 was cancelled.

In the time of the Rev. Mr. Hermance, a few brethren living in North Tarrytown, resolved on a separation from the old Society -- and so occured the building of the new St. Paul's M. E. church, in that part of the town."

There is also a Baptist church.

Mr. Christopher Collins, the first projector of the Erie canal in 1805-6,

a Extracts from a sermon delivered by the pastor, Rev. F. Bottome, on the anniversary of the church, Dec. 20, 1878.

THE TOWN" OF GREENBURGH.

was for several years a resident of this place, and lies interred in the grave yard at Sleepy Hollow.

Tanytown is far famed as the place where Major Andre, adjutant general of the British army, was captured by Paulding and his associates upon the 23rd of September, 1780. The circumstances which led to the arrest of the spy were as follows :

Major John Andre had been long negotiating with the American general, Arnold, to put the British general, Clinton, in possession of West Point. " This post," says Major General Greene, (who, it must be remembered, was president of the court that tried Andre,) " is a beautiful little place lying on the west bank of the Hudson, a little below where it breaks through the chain of mountains called the highlands.