In the year 1797, the first church edifice was erected -- in 1763 upon a glebe farm given by Stephen De Lancey, was found to be in a ruinous condition ; whereupon it was dismantled and sold at public auction May 23d, 1797. About 1810 the late venerable Epenetus Wallace, M. D., induced the vestry to exchange the old location for the site of the present church ; which old location, a few years ago, was sold to the Presbyterian Society upon which they have erected their present parsonage.

Epenetus Wallace thus describes the dismantling of the old church and the erection of the second edifice in a MSS. attached to the vestry minutes, with which we have been favored by Mr. Henry Lobdell, the present clerk of the vestry :

" The Society being scattered and many of them died during the war, continued broken ; and divine service not being performed, until peace took place, and the old church went to decay during the war, and the ravages of time, and the society diminished, it was resolved to take down the church and sell it by parcels for what it would fetch ; accordingly it was taken down, and the timber, boards, nails and what glass remained were sold in lots. The silver cup was sold for about $100. The proceeds, together with the rent of the parsonage, were put on interest which in after years amounted to some hundreds of dollars.

The old wardens being dead, (John Wallace and Ebenezer Lobdell) their successors, Benj. Close and Gershom Hanford, together with the vestry, resolved on building a new church -- although the funds of the church was not adequate to finish it. It was commenced in the year 1 8 10, the lot given by Epenetus Wallace on which the new church stands containing about three roods of land.