* This structure has been recently erected for Capt. Nathan Cobb, now a resident of this village, formerly and for many years a most efficient and successful corumander in the Liverpool packet line from New York. -- Irving Banner.

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Above the entrance is placed the following inscription.

"Reformed Dutch Church."

Erected A. D. 1837.

In all places where I record

my name I will come unto thee and I will bless thee.

Exodus XX. 24.

The first pastor of this church was the Rev. George Dubois, who was succeeded by the Rev. Joseph Wilson, present minister.

The Methodist society of Tarrytown was first organized by the Rev. Mr. Witsell of Haverstraw, A. D. IS31. The present church was erected in 1840. Since that period it has been attached to the Bedford circuit.

The Asbury Methodist Episcopal church in this village was erected A. D. 1837.

There is also a Baptist church, of which the Rev. Charles Underhill is the present pastor.

Mr. Christopher Collins, the first projector of the Erie canal in 1805-6, was for several years a resident of this place, and lies interred in the grave yard at Sleepy Hollow.

Tarrytown is far famed as the place where Major Andre, adjutant general of the British army, was captured by Paulding and his associates upon the 23d of September, 1780. The circumstances which led to the arrest of the spy were as follows :

Major John Andre had been long negotiating with the American general, Arnold, to put the British general, Clinton, in possession of West Point. " This post, says Major General Greene, (who. it must be remembered, was president of the court that tried Andre,) is a beautiful little place lying on the west bank of the Hudson, a little below where it breaks through the chain of mountains called the highlands.