There is a large and respectable Methodist Episcopal society in the village, which was organized August 22d, 1791, and incorporated the same year, Peter Bonnett, Sen., Benjamin Morgan, Thomas Shute, Gilbert Shute, John Bonnett and Ramson Burtis, first trustees. b

There is also a Roman Catholic church erected in 1845.

The property adjoining it (on the south) belonged to the late William Leggett, Esq., for many years the able conductor of the ^'Evening Post." Mr. Leggett died in 1839 soon after his appointment to the Guatemala mission, and has a handsome monu-

• For further particulars of the Coggeshall family, see pedigree. » Religious Soc. Lib. A. 24.

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ment erected to his memory in the church-yard of the Episcopal church.^

In this neighborhood formerly resided Captain Samuel Pintard, whose ancestors were French Protestant refugees.^ Capt. Pintard was greatly distinguished for his military services in the Low Countries in 1759. "At the battle of Minden he was severely wounded, and afterwards found on the battle ground, wrapped up in a standard of colors which he had captured with his own hands from the enemy. He subsequently returned to this his .native country full of honors and wounds, and located himself near his brother Lewis, *^ on the farm now owned by Mr. Jarvis Dusenberry. The two brothers marrieds isters of the Stockton family of New Jersey.

The estate of Charles F. Wright, Esq. formerly belonged to Mr. James Bleecker, son of Rutger Bleecker, mayor of the city of Albany in 172S.<i The house is said to have been used by the British as an hospital for the wounded soldiery in 1776. Captain Josiah le Count still occupies a portion of the old family place, situated on the south side of the road leading to the viU- age.e Guilliaume le Conte, the founder of the Le Count family in New Rochelle, fled from France to England, prior to the revocation of the edict of Nantes, and brought with him his two sons Guilliaume and Pierre le Conte.^