The amount of $2061,00 was collected, to which the sum of $1000,00 was added by the munificent donation of Mrs. C. L. Spencer, to whose christian liberality, the congregation is further indebted for the gift of an organ, a Sunday school library, and numerous other contributions to the church. Additional aid was given by the following gentlemen, viz. : Messrs. Peter Lorillard, jun., Philip M. Lydig, Governeur M. Wilkins, J. D. Wolfe, William A. Spencer and others, making in all the sum of $4,lo8

a Co. Rec. Religious Soc. Lib. B. p. 93. Daughter of Thomas Hunt, fourth iu descent from Edward Jessup, one of

the first patentees of the West Farms.

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95, the cost of the church. The congregation are also deeplyindebted to Francis Barretto. Esq., of the building committee, for his generous sympathy with tlie first projectors of the church, as well as for his attentive supervision of the building while in process of erection. A bell weighing 535 lbs. has been purchased by subscriptions received principally from the members of the church.

The Presbyterian church stands upon the highest ground in the village. It was incorporated, in 1814, by the name of the " First Presbyterian Church in the village of West Farms," Robert Givan, Caleb Pell, Ebenezer Waterbury, James Bathgate, James Renwick and John B. Gillespie, first trustees. a Prior to the year 1836, it belonged to the Bedford presbytery, but is now in connection with the second New York Presbytery. The present church edifice was erected in 1816.