" And as the Hon. servants of the church experience that up to this time, being the 3d day of November, in the year of our Lord 17 15, there are no church memorandum, it has appeared necessary and good to us

a One of the sons of the Rev. T. Ttitzema was a Colonel under Washington at New York, and tried for treason in August lTTti; when he left the American cause and became a commissioned officer in the British service. This gentleman, prior to the Kevolutlon, kept a military school at Tarrvtowi.

* Pro. N. Y. tlist. So'c. p. 56.

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HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.

for what is past, forasmuch as we can find out according to the upright proof to put it down, also first and successively to put down the annotations in this book, by one of our members of Jesus Christ, whom we judge to be able and to possess the knowledge thereto, to put rightly and successively what will come to our knowledge and experience, that which we can find out with truth as will follow."

The volume itself is divided into eight special books, the last of which contains the previous memoranda abbreviated and concluded for the accommodation of the kind reader.

The first book contains the first memorandum of the yearly ministry of the word of God and the holy sacraments, as also the salary for each journey, per year and date as noted.

In the second book is registered the names of the members of Jesus Christ, who after Christian examination and exhortation have disposed themselves to receive the Lord's holy communion.