1766.

1770.

. , Westcliester Imlepeiidents.

. i Westcliester Friends.

I Bedford I'resliyterians.

iXew liochelle Hugueuots.

.Mount I'leasant Keformed Dutch.

East Chester Independents.

Westcliester Independents.

Fordham Reformed Dutcli.

Rye Church of England.

Xew Rochelle Church of England.

Xew Rochelle ReforniedProtestant.

White Plains I*resbyterian8.

Rye Presbyterians.

Cortlandt Reformed Dutch.

Yorlitown ' Presby terians.

Harrison Friends.

Marmauwick Friends.

Westchester Friends.

Yonkei-s Church of England.

South Salem Presbyterians.

Xew Castle Church of England.

Xorth Salem Church of England.

I East Chester Church of England.

iXorlh Salem Presbyterians.

Peekskill IChurch of England.

J Poundridge 'Presbyterians.

* About this date.

The church at Mount Pleasant is the famous building at Sleepy Hollow, and is still standing in excellent preservation. Catherine Philipse, daughter of OloflT Stevens Van Kortlandt, and wife of Frederick Philipse, seems to have taken great interest in its erection and to have been largely its benefactor.

IXFLCEXCEOF THE Cler(;y. -- Certain it is that no class of persons contributed more to influence the people of this county during its colonial existence than the Clergy of the various religious societies within it. The Connecticut Congregationalist, the Huguenot, the Reformed Dutch and the Church of England minister

< Hawk's MSS. from Archires at Falbam, vol. ii. pp. 26-.'..''>. 5 Bultou " Hist, of Westchester Co.," Tol. ii. p. 2-27.

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

served, in his presence and labors, not merely to supply the religious wants of the many who realized them, but to counteract the lowering tendency of the situation and circumstances of the new settler. Wherever any demoralization appeared for the time, one can easily trace it to the absence of this exalting power for the common good. While it is fully allowed that the clashing claims diminished much then, as it does now, the result of professional elforts, it is yet apparent enough how, in the setting forth of the moral code, in the urgent use of ordinances and customs, in encouraging calls to individual reform, in the exhibition of the results of good and evil, in the discountenancing-- sometimes denunciation -- ofbadmen, inthe enforcement of rights, individual and magisterial, as well as those Divine, in examples of domestic felicity and order, -- in these and so many other ways the servant of God and friend of the people filled up his mission of usefulness.