« See Fuueral Discourse on the death of Matson Smith, U. D., by the Rev. G. D. Abbott. See, also, Presbyterian Manual.

b The father of Lewis P. Bayard was the Hon. Samuel Bayard, a ruling elder in the Presbyterian church, and the author of a volume of letters on the Lord's supper.

e From the original document in the possession of the trustees. Colonel Samuel Bayard, one of the above grantors, was also a liberal benefactor to this church.

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Church Memoranda.

1826, 25 communicants, 5 baptisms. 1836, 29 do. 0

1847, 60 do. 3

TFiis church is in connection with the New York presbytery.'^ fn this part of the village are situated the properties of Colonel J. L. Graham, former post-master of the city of New York, Mr. Samuel Davis and the late Matson Smith, M. D.,Ij now occupied by his son Albert Smith. M> D» Dr. M. Smith, though not a descendant of the French, was among the early settlers of the place, and for more than half a century distinguished for his high professional skill and attainments, being for many years president of the Medical Society of Westchester county. He was a man of strictly religious habits, and for some time a ruling elder in the Presbyterian church. A large portion of the land in this vicinity constituted the old Allaire estate purchased by Alexander Allaire, the Huguenot, in 1691. The ancestors of the Allaires were of honorable descent, and possessed a iixu inheritance in France at a very early period.*^ The more immediate ancestor of the family however, was Pierre Allaire, Ecuyer, living in 1465. Prior to the revocation of the edict of Nantes, Alexander Allaire, the Huguenot, fled from La Rochelle to England, and soon after cam^e thence to America. This individual was the great grand- father of the present James Allaire, proprietor of the Allaire iron works in New York.