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The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester (1881 revised edition, Vol. I)

Bolton, Robert Jr. The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester, from its First Settlement to the Present Time, Vol. I. New York: Charles F. Roper, 1881. Revised posthumous edition. 269 words

The French officers at this time were Count de Rochambeau, Commander-in-chief; Chevalier de Chastellux, Major-General; M. de Choicy, Brigadier of the forces ; Charles and Alexandre, Chevaliers de Lamothj Charles was Adjuant-General ; Duke de Louzun ; Lieutenant-General Baron de Viomenil ; Count de Vio Menil ; Count de Lauberbiere ; Count de Baular; Major-General and Chevalier de Beville. Two Brothers Berchier, Sub-Lieutenant after General of Cavalry Killamaire, and Count de Fersen, Count Charles de Dumas and Count Matthieu Dumas.

The summits of the Greenburgh hill command a variety of beautiful prospects, in which long reaches of the East River, Bronx valley and Scarsdale, form the principal features. In the south-east corner of Greenburgh is situated Greenville, where there is a Dutch Reformed church, and a few scattered dwellings.

The Dutch Church of this place was first organized in 1842, under the pastoral charge of the Rev. V. M. Hulbert of Yonkers, and incorporated on the 3d of December, 1842, by the title of the " Minister, Elders and Deacons of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Greenville, in the town of Greenburgh." First elders, John Dusenberry and Charles Dusenberry ; first deacons, Ichabod Smith and Benjamin Carpenter.

LIST OF MINISTERS.

Mit. Hulbert was succeeded by the Rev. Abel T. Stewart.

A. T. Stewart, dismissed from Greenville and Bronxville, July 23d, 1852.

Joseph A Collier, installed over Greenville and Bronxville " 1st Sabbath of October," 1852. Dismissed May 14, 1855.

Aaron Marckli/us, installed over Greenville and Bronxville, July 17, 1S56, and dismissed August 24, 1859. During his pastorate Bronxville was set off, and thenceforth Greenville had its own pastor.