Count de Rochambeau, General Washington having encamped on the west bank of the Spraine. On several occasions large tables were arranged for the

» For incorporation of this church see Religious Soc. Lib., B. 7 ; first trustees, Underhill Tompkins, Ste-phen Leviness, Gilbert Tompkins, Joseph Forster, Joha Cxawford, and Elijah Tompkins.

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military staffs of Generals Washington and Rochambeaii in the adjoining stables, the mangers serving as a repository for their hats and swords.

Mrs. Churchill, daughter of Mr. Taylor, former proprietor of the place, remembers to have danced with the celebrated Marshal Berthier, at that time one of the aides of the Count de Rochambe.iu in the parlor of the present mansion.

The summits of the Greenburgh hills command a variety of beautiful prospects, in which long reaches of the East River, Bronx valley and Scarsdale, form the principal features. In the south east corner of Greenburgh is situated Greenville, where there is a Dutch Reformed Church, and a iew scattered dwellings.

The Dutch Church of this place was first organized in 1842, under the pastoral charge of the Rev. V^. M. Hulbert of Yonkers, and incorporated on the 3d of December, 1842, by the title of the " Minister, Elders and Deacons of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Greenville, in the town of Greenburgh." First elders, John Dusenberry and Charles Dusenberry ; first deacons, Ichabod Saiith and Benjamin Carpenter.'^ Mr. Hulbert, was succeeded by the Rev. Abel T. Stewart, present minister.

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