George's church, which had stood for nearly eighty years in the Episcopal burying ground, was dismantled in 1S39, and sold at public auction for the sum of forty dollars.^

The following inscriptions are copied from monuments in the grave yard.

In In

Memory of Memory of

Isaac Lounsberrv, James Wright,

who was born Oct. llth, 1703, who was born March 14th, and died March 3, 1721, and departed this life,

1773. May the 17th, 1776,

aged 55 years, 1 mo. and 25 days.

There are also memorials to the Greens, Woolseys, Ferrises, Sarleses, Harts, Pinckneys, Tompkinses, Carys, Seamans, Forshays, Haineses, Millers, Carpenters, Clapps, Merritts, Mon- Irosses, &c.

The Methodist Episcopal church of this place was first incorporated in 1S24. Caleb Kirby, James Fish, John B. Horton, Tyler Fountain and Benjamin Kirby, *trustees.c The present church was erected in 1843, to it, is attached a small parsonage and grave yard.

» Hawkins' Hist. Not. of the Missions of the Church of England. Original letters in Lambeth collection, vol. xix. 208.

b It deserves to be recorded that Judge Miller strenuously opposed its destruction. YoT a further account of t' is pariah, see Bedford.

e Religious Soc. Co. Rcc. Lib. A. 183.

COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 371

During the Revolution, this part of the county was greatly annoyed by the enemy, who frequently made sudden inroads, plundering and capturing the defenceless inhabitants. February 7lh, 17S2, (says General Heath,) about fifty of De Lancey'rf horse came out within four miles of Chappequa, where they halted. On the 8th ihey moved toward North Castle, but turned off by \Yright's Mills ; from thence to King street, Rye.''^ For a long time St. George's church was occupied as a guard-house and hospital by the Continental troops.