Home / Westchester County Histories
📖 Westchester County Histories
Comprehensive histories of the county and Town of Cortlandt
1,488Passages
2Source Documents
Sources
| Source | Passages | Words | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| J. Thomas Scharf (1886) | 916 | 173,521 | Original → |
| Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900) | 572 | 106,421 | Original → |
Passages
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] This manor having been confiscated at the close of the Revolu-tion, the Sparta Cemetery was excepted from sale by the Commissioners of Forfeitures. On the 14th day of March, 1808, the Legislature passed an act granting "all …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Anna Ladew, wife of Abraham Ladew who Departed this Life Dec. 25, 1795, Aged 08 Years 10 Months 25 Days Also Abraham Ladew Husband of Anna Ladew who departed this Life Juno 12, 17 Aged Years 4 Mos & 15 Days.] (A number of li…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] sides and winding valleys, with shady groves and babbling brook; it is sufficiently conspicuous and sequestered in its various parts to please the tastes of all classes of persons. The grand entrance on the western side is t…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] and grounds are fairly well kept, and the place is creditable to an enlightened community. BPAKTA. — In the earliest times farmers brought their produce for shipment to a dock which stood in the cove a short distance north o…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] There were besides the Rhodes, the Priestlys and others, whose names are perpetuated in Sparta, where some of their descendants still live. Why this j little place should have received so classical a name is not at present k…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] These, uniting with a few others, were recognized as a branch of that church. Elder Ferris met with them once a month and added many members. In 178S thirty-three of their num-ber organized the Baptist Church of Yorktown, wi…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] In the year 1792, the year after the New York As-sociation of Baptist Churches was formed, some of the brethren of the Sing Sing Church suggested the establishment of an academy in this vicinity for the education of young me…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] succeeded in 1848 by Rev. Alonzo Wheelock, who was followed in 1850 by Rev. Wm. S. Mikels. He was a plain, earnest, sterling man. His six years of labor were crowned by the addition of many mem-bers, raising the list from on…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Noxon and William A. Pentz were appointed the building com-mittee. The pleasant little white wonden church building, which for generations had stood embowered in a beautiful grove of locust-trees, with here and there a lofty…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] thousand dollars. The pastorate of Mr. Boxer was not characterized by unalloyed sweetness and harmony. He possessed no little talent and not a few eccentricities. His successor, the Rev. A. D. Gillette, D.D., was a gentleman…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] — At a meeting of the Dutchess County Presbytery, held at Bedford, June 28, 1763, a petition, signed by a number of the inhabitants of Sing Sing, was laid before that body, requesting Presbytery to supply them with the state…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] 379.) At or near this time the first church edifice was erected, having for its site what is now known as the '• old burying-ground " at Sparta, about one and a half miles to the south of the village of Sing Sing. The land u…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] all the right, title and interest of the people of this State in and to a certain lot of ground heretofore al-lotted by Frederick Phillips, to the Trustees of the Presbyterian Church and congregation of the Town of Mount Ple…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] In 1870, upon the reunion of the Presbyterian Church, this congregation came into relations with the Presbytery of Westchester. Mini*terx. — The early records of this church are unfortunately lost, so that the successive pas…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] ()//im:t fifth? Cliin-fh, April. l^So: Pastor, Rev. Wilson Phraner, D.D.; Elders — Charles F. Maurice, Stanton Cady, Dr. D. E. Provost, John F. Miller, Rev. David A. Holbrook; Deacons — Rodney S-Lockwood, Charles H. Cummings…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] terian Seminary of Edinburgh, Scotland, after which he traveled for several months in England and upon the Continent. Upon his return he resumed his stu-dies in the seminary and graduated with his class in May. 1850. During …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] fully recognized by his ministerial brethren and the entire community. In 187<> the University of the City of New A'ork conferred upon him the degree of doctor of divinity. For many years he has been a member of the Hoard of…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] chester County. One son, Halsey Dunning, died in early infancy, August 21!, 1869. Dr. Phraner is justly considered as one of the leaders of the Presbyterian ministry in this section of the country, and his influence as a pre…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Caleb Bacon, who resolved to form themselves into a society for the purpose, under Divine favor and assis-tance, of forming a church in said village; and that we will communicate with our Episcopal friends and-
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] memorialize the rector, church-wardens and vestry of Trinity Church, New York, for aid by funds in the erection of a church edifice." In this memorial, the petitioners state, " That some years past an old Epis-copal church i…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] belonging to Jacob Rider. He afterward held his meetings in a barn, not far from where the village-now stands. We are told that, in 1793, he preached in this barn, a box serving as his pulpit, hoards for scats and hay-mows f…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Oakley (1823-24), Remington (1825-26), Marvin Rich-ardson (1827-28) and Henry Hatfield (1829-30). The year 1831 marks an epoch in the history of Methodism in Sing Sing. During the almost forty previous years the church had m…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] try roads and chiseled on the building grounds. The work in a short time was stopped for want of funds, and up to this date has never been resumed. Great expectations from certain persons failed to be realized, and the lauda…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] In addition to the original cost of the church, sub-sequent alterations and the building of a parsonage involved an expenditure of several thousand dol-lars more. The church in January, 1871, reported to the Conference seven…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] About the year 1844 Father Cummisky, of Phila-delphia, was in Sing Sing and its neighborhood for about six months and held several services. The next priest to enter the field in Sing Sing was the Rev. John Hackct, the pasto…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Father Phalen was an Irishman by birth, and came to Sing Sing from the Bermuda Islands. He was a delicate man, and died while on a trip to the South for the benefit of his health, by taking, it is said, a strong medicine by …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Joseph's Provincial Roman Catholic Seminary, in Troy, N. Y. During his incumbency the parsonage, located in the lot ad joining the church on the south, was built. Father McClellan was a man of superior intellectual attain-me…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] After remaining in charge for two years he became an assistant in the Church of the Transfiguration in New York City, and subsequently took charge of a parish in Amenia. From this last place he came to Sing Sing. In 1884 he …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] the rear of the lot occupied by it is a public school, which was started by Rev. Father William McClellan as a parochial school, but afterwards, by arrangement with the school trustees, was converted into a public school. It…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Dr. Creighton, of Tarry town. At this service the building was entirely furnished. It was built of stone, in Gothic architecture, after a design furnished by an architect of New York, and was a copy of an English chapel.