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Higgins, Alvin McCaslin. The Story of Croton. Paper read before the Ossining Historical Society, 1938. Published posthumously in The Quarterly Bulletin of the Westchester County Historical Society, Vol. 16, No. 3 (1940), pp. 49-63.
…Thomas Ware, crossed
over from Long Island to Westchester to promote the Wesleyan faith,
he said, "there was not a Methodist on the east side of the Hudson
above New York,'' although the great George Whitefield had preached
in Peekskill…