This is confirmed by the following items, taken from an old account book in the possession of Mr. John Close :

"October, the year 1764, T. Ebenczer Brown, of Salem, have received of Samuel Cole, of Cortlandt manor, the full and just sum of five pounds, received by me on the acompt of the Meetin House."

"November the 20th, the year 1764, Ebenezer Brown, of Salem, have received of Solomon Close two pounds, seven shillings and tenpence, on the accompt of the Meetin House. Received by Ebenezer Brown."

" To cash by Nathan, -£o, 5s, od, 1765 ; Abner Benedict, cradit to a

o Religious 60c. Co. Rec. Lib. B, p 10.

THE TOWN OF NORTH SALEM.

log for the fore, that made 140 feet to 158 feet of oak boards, ^o, 2s, \dd. For the Meetin House, j£o, 7s, ud. To 370 feet of bords, by Crane, £0, i8j, 6 J."

This old building and site were sold to Mr. Alfred 13. Mead, in 1847

Attached to the church is a small parsonage, which occupies the site of the first Episcopal church, erected in 1763."

The Methodist Episcopal Society of North Salem, was first organized in the early part of the present century, and incorporated 6th of January, 1832 ; Jonas Keeler, Abel Smith, William Cable and Stephen Ryder, trustees.6 The church edifice was erected in 1833. The present pastor is the Rev. Aaron Coons.

The Baptist congregation in the town of North Salem was incorporated on the 1st of April, 1833: Ebenezer Whelppy, Edward Ganong, John Wesley Searles, John Braden and James Mills trustees."