[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 69 and was succeeded by the Rev. Livingston Willard (present pas-tor) April 15th, 1847' The Baptist society must have been established here at an early date; this appears from the following document, entitled an agreement made the 17th day of December, A. D. 1772, by and between tfie subscribers, as follows, to wit : Whereas the society of people called Baptists, by way of voluntary sub-scription, have lately erected and built a house for public worship at or near a place called Peekskill, in the manor of Cortlandt, and as there is not as yet a sufficient sum of money raised to pay for the building said house, we the sub-scribers do agree upon and appoint Caleb Hall, of said manor of Cortlandt, to hire a sum of money sufficient to pay the deficiency; and we jointly and seve-rally promise, and oblige ourselves, our heirs, executors and administrators, to • pay to the said Caleb Hall, his executors or administrators, one equal part of the sum that he shall so hire, according to the proportion of our first subscrip-tion: Provided that if there shall be money raised by way of subscription suf-ficient to pay the cost laid out in building said house, that the money so hired shall be paid out of the same. In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands. Caleb Hall, Sen. John Poun, Isaac Horton, Sen. Joshua Horton, Daniel Hall, •. Caleb Hall, Jr. Richard Williams,, ' ', Nathan Brown, Nathan Eliot, ' Oliver Yeomans.