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History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I

Scharf, J. Thomas, ed. History of Westchester County, New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City, Vol. I. Philadelphia: L.E. Preston & Co., 1886. 315 words

White Plains and White Plains village -- and the preachers were, --

White Plains (Old Church).

William H. Evans . Darius D. Lindsley Albert H. Wyatt . Thomas B. Smith . John E. Gorse . . .

1866-67 1868-70 1871-73

Asa P. Lyon 1874-75

Ezra Tinker 1876

Thomas W. Chadwick . 1877

0. V. Haviland 1878-79

Thomas Lodge .... 188ii

In 1881 the Old Church disbanded and united with the Village Church.

Village Chi ech.

Gideon Draper .... 1863-64 , William F. Hatfield . 1873-75

William JI. Chipp . . 186.-1-66 j Phineas Hawkshurs . ]878

John P. Hermance . . 1807 James Y. Bates . . . 1877-79

John W. Beach . . . 1868-69 ' Gilbert H. Gregory . . I.x8ll-81

E. B. Othaman . . . 1870 i F. Jlason Xorth . . . 1882-83

Richard Wheatley . . 1871-72 ' De Loss Lull 1884-86

St. John's Roman Catholic Church -- The first Mass said in Westchester County was said at the house of Dominick Lynch, on Throgg's Point, in the town of Westchester, where the Academy of the Sacred Heart is now located. Dominick Lynch was a prominent man during the Revolution, and after the election of Washington as first President of the United States, was one of the signers of the Catholic address to Washington, ' which received a generous reply, and was followed by a memorial to Congress representing the necessity of adopting some constitutional provision for the protection and maintenance of civil and religious freedom, which hadco>^tsomuch blood and treasure of all classes of citizens. It was through the influence of Washington that this memorial was favorably received, and it resulted in the enactment of that article in the constitution which declares that Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion or the free exercise thereof, and which has since been incorporated in the fundamental law.