Although no record has been preserved of that little society, with the name of the teacher or of the members who composed the class or congregation, or in what commodious farm-house they assembled for worship, the fact that such a teacher and .such a class or congiegation. in an organized shape, existed in White Plains in 1743 cannot be controverted ; and this was seventeen years before Philip Emlniry and Barbara Heck came to America, and twenty-three years before Philip I^mbury organized his class-meeting or society in his house in Barrack St., New York ■City, which the learned historian. Dr. Abel Stevens, states was the foundation of Methodism in America.

During the American Revolution no regular meetings for public religious worship by any denomination of Christians were held in White Plains, but very soon after the war, little companies were gathered without any formal organization, one of which met at the house of Mrs. Ann Miller, in North Castle (Washington's headquarters). When the New Rochelle Circuit was organized, in 17S7, Mrs. Miller's house was one of the regular appointments on the circuit ; the Rev. Samuel Talbot, who organized the first class, consisting of six persons, was preacher. In 1792 and 1793 some six members were added to the little society, three of whom -- Abraham Miller, Abraham Davis and John Hatfield -- were men of influence in the neighborhood ; and through their etlorts the embryo church grew vigorous and strong.

As a church it had no corporate existence until July 2<i, 1795, when Elijah Crawford, John Lynch,