1826 members 46; baptisms 0
;f^' 1836, ditto 62; ditto 1
-■^ 1846, ditto 90; ditto 3.
A considerable eminence rises a little to the east of the Presbyterian church, from the summit of which is an extensive prospect of the beautiful country bordering the Sound and the distant shores of Long Island, &c.
Prior to 1775, Poundridge constituted one of the precincts of Rye parish. In 1816 Episcopal services were performed here by the Rev, George Weller.
The Methodist Episcopal church of this place was first incorporated in 1822, James Brown, John Haws and Samuel K. Olmstead, trustees."^ The present church edifice was erected in 1833.
The village grave-yard is pleasantly situated about a quarter of a mile south of Poundridge upon a gentle acclivity. The head stones record the names of Thaddeus H. Lockwood who died in 1774: Ebenezer Lockwood, Esq., who died July 29th, 1821, aet, 84 : John Ferris who died A. D. 1788, and Captain John Grinell, born in Nantucket, Mass., December 7th, 1795, and died in Cronstad, Russia, June 3d, 1831, set. 34, &c., (fee. Others are simply
» This individual was a native of Scotland and a classmate of Robert Pollock, author of the Course of Time.
b Co. Rec. Religious Soc. Lib. A. 170. A second iucorporation occurs on the 21st of December, 1832. The Methodist Protestant Church and Society in Poundridge, were incorporated on the 16th of March, 1833. Selby Fancher, William Brown aad Joseph Waterbury, trustees. Co. Rec. Religious Soc. Lib. B. 12.