Beardslet, " Joseph Foestthe, "

David Teese, "

Thomas C. Stiele, "

Edgar L. Heumaxce, present pastor.

This church is in connection with the Bedford Presbytery. The following inscriptions are taken from monuments in the grave vard : --

Here lie the remains of

CALEB IIORTOX,

■who died August 24th, 1770,

aged 72 years.

stalled

OK Called.

A.D.

. 17.53.

Rev.

1770.

Rev.

1S2I,

Rev.

1S23,

Rev.

1823,

Rev.

Oct.

1S23,

Rev.

A.D.

, 1825,

Rev.

1834,

Rev.

1835.

Rev.

1844,

Rev.

iS4y,

Rev.

1850,

Rev.

1853.

Rev.

1871,

Rev.

Jan. 19

1374.

Rev.

; M A R Y,

wife of

Michael Chaddertox,

bora June 25, 1706. n)arried 1727, and lived in that State forty-live years, ob. 1772.

There are also numerous memorials to the families of ^Miller. Fislior. Varian. Purdy, and Tompkins, and the vault of William and Isahe'i.'! Pirnie. The renuiiiis of a British othccr who fell at the battle of AViiitc Plains, were interred in the south-west corner of this yard.

THE TOWN OF WHITE PLAINS. 549

METHODIST CHURCn, WHITE PLAINS.

Methodism was introduced in Wnite Plains in the year 1775, by the Rfv. Cornelius Cook. The first Methodist Episcopal church was built n, 1795, when Revs. Thomas Woolsey, Albert Van Nostrand and Jason I'erkins were the preachers on the circuit which embraced White Plains. Tills church was forty four feet square ; and when completed, ready for dedication, it was burned. At a meeting, called on the evening of the same day, it was resolved to rebuild at once, and six hundred dollars was subscribed on the spot for that purpose ; and it is said that some of the members were in the roads felling trees and preparing timber before the smoking embers were extinguished.