In 1797, the meeting house was enlarged to its present size by an addition on the east side.

In 1827 a separation took place in the Society of Friends at the Purchase. The ' Orthodox ' Friends erected a meeting house near the old building which is held by the other branch -- termed ' Hicksites' from Elias Hicks, whose opinions they were understood to approve."6

Near the old meeting house is the graveyard, where the founders of the community and several generations of their descendants rest.

The oldest memorial bears the following inscription :

R. W.

March 31, 1731.

a Records of the Society in narrison. Baird's Hist, of Rye, p. 364. b Baird's Hist, of Rye, i>. 3M.

THE TOWN OF HARRISON.

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In the Halstead plot is the following epitaph to the memory of Charity H uggerford, the wife of the celebrated partisan officer of the Revolutionary war, viz., Major William Lainey Huggerford: --

The Remains of CHARITY HUGGERFORD lies here, Called to the eternal world the 10th day of July, 1807, In the 52d year of her age.

In this cemetery are also interred the mortal remains of Cornelius Oakley, one of the distinguished Westchester guards to General Washington during the Revolutionary War.11

The Friends in Harrison are not so numerous as they once were; but are still a respectable and influential community. They are a peaceable and quiet people, frugal and simple in their habits and manners, strictly moral, careful of their poor, and abhor all kinds of oppression.