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.

LIST OF PASTORS AND SUPPLIES.b

Install (

Dr call.

Supply.

1815,

Rev. Isaac Lewis,

do.

l

1819,

Rev. Truman Osborne,

do.

1821,

Rev. Samuel Nott,

do.

1823,

Rev. Joseph B. Felt,

do.

1823,

Rev. Thomas S. Wickes,

do.

^■'^

1824,

Rev. Ithamer Hillsbury,

do.

1824,

Rev. E. D. Wells,

do.

1825,

Rev. J. D. Wickham,

do.

1828,

Rev. George Stebbins,

do.

1835,

Rev. William Gray,

do.

Jan. 22,

, 1836,

Rev. M. I. Adam,

pastor.

Feb.

1841,

Rev. James B. Ramsey,

do.

1846,

Rev. Charles Moase,

supply.

Oct. 28;

, 1847,

Rev. Isaac Watts Piatt, present pastor.

» Co. Rec. Lib A. 154.

b For some years this cliurch was associated, ia tlie support of a minister, with the Presbyterian cliurch of New Roclielle.

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Church Notes.

1826, Communicants, 41, Baptisms, 1.

1846, do. 38, do. 8. '•

The Dutch Reformed Church of this village was first organized in 1839, under the pastoral charge of the late Rev. George Bourne, of New York, and incorporated on the 16th of March, 1840. =1 First elders, Thomas Butler, George Wilson, and Abijah Rogers ; first deacons, James P. Fitch, J. G. Rowland, and Stephen Kelly. Mr, Bourne was succeeded, in 1842, by the Rev. Barnabas Collins. The present pastor is the Rev. John Simonson, who commenced his ministrations in 1845.