By subsequent ecclesiastical arrangements

a This must have been the old log house that oace stood on the west side of the road opposite to the present meeting house near the site of the late Gould Hawley's residence and which Mr. Mead Is pleased to call here "the meeting-house," Capt. Moses Bouton remembers to have worshipped there at an early day ; but. it never was designed originally as a place of worship -- for the Rev. Epenetns Towsend, rector of the parish, writing to the venerable Propagation Society from salem, March 25th, 1 1 71) distinctly says : " There are some church people, Presbyterians, Baptists and Quakers scattered among them, and great numbers who don't belong to any particular denomination of Christians. It has been proposed by some to build achurehor Prt«byterian tneeting-hmtise, but nothing in pet concluded, d-c." The parochial Church of St. James had been erected at upper Salem in lTCSaud opened :sisf of Auirust, 1766. The upper Presbyterian meeting-house which was the first constructed in Salem of that denomination, was erected in upper Salem, 1764.

i Kec. of Presbyterian church, South Salem, vol. I. entitled " Doings of the church of Salem,'' p. 5.

HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.

it has been connected with the Presbyteries of Bedford and Connecticut and finally with that of Westchester.

Under the long pastorate of Solomon Mead that church appears to have had a peaceful and uneventful history. Its affairs do not seem to have called for interference on the part of the Presbytery of Dutchess County at any time. In the church records is the following entry which is sufficiently concise :