Daniel D. Tompkins, forms a prominent object on the opposite side of the village.
In the main street are situated the female seminary of Mrs. Searles, and the White Plains Academy, of which Mr. J. M. Swin» burn is principal.
The Presbyterian Church, surrounded by locust trees, presents a pretty appearance upon entering White Plains from the north. It is a plain edifice of wood, with a tower of the same material, erected A. D. 1824.
The first notice of this church occurs in a deed from Moses Owen to Caleb Hyatt, .Tolin Turner, and Peter Hatfield, •= bearing date the 15th of Jime, 1751 : " For one acre and three roods of land, with Presbyterian Church thereon, for the sum of ten pounds. The land is the north-east corner of land formerly belonging to Abraham Smith, now in possession of Moses Owen, and bounded on the northerly side by the road leading to Bronx river," dec. The title is in fee simple, and without any conditions. Signed before Jacob Griffen and Caleb Griffen, and acknowledged before Samuel Purdy, January 9th, l7o2A
There is also a release (supposed to be much older than the preceding,) from the proprietors of an undivided piece of land, to be annexed to the burying ground, as follows:
" The undersigners, being such as have proprietors' rights in the While Plains, in the township of Rye, <Sj-c. whereas there is a small piece of undivided land lying on the north side of burying yard near the Presbyterian meeting