There is also a Reformed Dutch Church standing directly south of St. John's, situated upon rising ground. This church was erected on a portion of the estate of the late Lemuel Wells, Esq., which was given by his heirs in 1844. The building is a neat edifice of brick. The interior arrangements, and fittings up, are peculiarly appropriate, being neat and simple. A chaste pulpit and communion table, occupy the west end, while a gallery extends across the eastern.

This church was incorporated under the act of 1813, dated July 13, 1844. Lemuel W. Wells and Ducan McFarland, elders; Frederick Nodine and Ralph Shipman, deacons. The first installed pastor was the Rev. V. ]M. Hurlbert, present minister.

There appears to have been a Dutch Reformed congregation in this town as early as 1784, "called the Reformed Dutch Church at the Lower Mills, in the Manor of Phillipsborough," incorporated under the Act of 1784, dated September 8th, 1786; William Warner, Abraham Odell, Isaac Vermilyea, James ISIcChain, Jacobus Dyckman, trustees.

The Methodist Episcopal church was organized March ist, 182S, under the name and title of Christ church: first trustees, Joseph Oakley, Frederick Shonnard, Thomas Griff'en and David Oakley.

North-west of the city is Wild Boar Hill,'^ so called from the animal that once frequented the solitudes of its ancient forests. So troublesome and numerous had this animal become at one perjod, that the Provincial Government was compelled to pass laws for its destruction.

Up to a late era, Indians occupied this hill in great numbers. From here they are all said to have taken their departure in one night. The scarcity of the wild game, together with the encroachments of the white man, may in some measure, account for this sudden removal.