This building was erected in the year 1834, at a cost of $7000, just twenty two years after the removal of the old congregation from the lower church. The tower contains a fine toned bell, ^veighing five hundred pounds, inscribed " L. Aspenwall, Albany, 1834." The Presbyterian Society of Mount Pleasant was organized immediately subsequent, if not prior to the American revolution, at which period it belonged to the Westchester Association, an irregular Presbyterian judicatory formerly existing in these parts. In 1814, however, it joined the Presbytery of New York. Five years afterwards, the congregation employed a minister not in
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good standing, and thereby ofiended the Presbylery. Upon receiving censure, they returned once more to the Westchester association, thus again becoming independent in their form of government. This continued until tlie year 1825, at which date the Rev. R. W. Knight was the officiating pastor. The following year it again became a Presbyterian church, and was received into connection with the General Assembly, with which body it still remains united.
LIST OF MINISTERS AND SUPPLIES OF THE PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH AT SING SING. Installed or Call. Ministers. Vacated by
1798 Rev. Mr. Townley, resig.
2d Aug. 1814 '
■' Thomas Jackson,
pro temp. ISIS '
' Asa Lyman,
1S19 '
' George Bourne,
pro. temp. 1825 '
' Johnson,
1826 '
' R. W. Dickerson,
pro temp. 1830 '
' Nathaniel S. Prime,
Nov. 1832 '
' James V«r Henry,
1842 '
' Daniel Teese, present pastor.