The following receipts for rent prove the Purdys to have been tenants in common long prior to the above release. They also establish the early names of the town.

"Rec'd, Hanover, May ye lOih, 1760, by ye hand of Abraham Purdy, three pound in part for his farm rent and for the use of Col. Henry Beeckman, Esq., per me.

£3 0 0 "John Bryan."

" Received at Crompond, 16th Nov'r, 1786, per Mr. Elvan Purdy, one pound 135. in part of rent.

"Stephen van Cortlandt."

COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.

"Received at Yorhtown, Nov. 7th, 1789, of Mr. Elvan Pardy, two pounds 19^. 9c?. in full of rent due.

■ ;._; .. - "Stephen van Cortlandt."

Crompond, the principal village in (his township, is situated on the high road leading from Somers to Peekskill ; it contains a Presbyterian and a Congregational church, a post office, a store, and several dwellings. The name is undoubtedly derived from the large pond that lies north-west of the village, which, from its peculiar shape, is sometimes called the crooked pond, crom denoting in the Dutch language, crooked. This beautiful sheet of water covers an area of 200 acres.

iircli, Crompond.

The Presbyterian Church is handsomely located on the highest ground of the village, commanding a fine view of the surrounding country ; it was built in 1799, on the site of an older edifice erected cir. 1738, and destroyed by fire in July, 1779. At the time of its destruction the old church appears to have been used as a store house by the Continental troops ; for, during the year 1839, a select committee appointed by Congress to investigate Revolutionary claims, reported " That Congress pay the Yorktown congregation the sum of three thousand five hundred dollars out of the first unappropriated funds, the government having occupied the church and parsonage as barracks and