Shrub Oak contains a iSIethodist church, a post-office, and about fifteen dwellings. The Methodist society of this place was first incorporated upon the 22d of September, 1S40; Newman Lounsberry, Benjamin Curry, Solomon Requa, Thomas Curry, jr., and Jonathan Danow, trustees." The church, which was erected in 1839, is a very neat wooden structure. In the immediate neighborhood, lies Lake Magrigaries, (Hollow Lake, already alluded to,) which is a beautiful sheet of water, well stocked with fish.

A rich and picturesque vale extends south from Crompond, backed T)y rolling hills. Upon one of the principal heiglits in this vicinity,

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railed French hill, the French forces were encamped .in 17 81-2, under Comte de Kocharnbeau. " The French army, at the time the Marquis speaks of, (Nov. 17S2, says the translator of Chastellux,) had been for some time encamped at Crompond, near Cortlandt's manor, a few miles from that of General Washington's, and between which there was a daily intercourse. The translator dined, in October, 1782, in General "Washington's tent, with the Marquis de Laval, the Baron de Viomenil, and several French officers, within hearing of tlie British guns, v/hich were at that period happily become a Briiium fidmen."'^ On the northwest side of French hill, are the two ponds styled by the Indians A><7/^atis. The largest of these, sometimes known by the name of the Great Fond, covers an area of 200 acres, and discharges its redundant waters into the smaller one of 100 acres. Both are supplied by numerous Sjjrings, and have their outlet in ^fliscooia river. The site of an Indian village is still pointed out, on the borders of the Great Pond, north of cedar swamp, like\\"ise the remains of a cemetery on Cedar Point.^