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A History of the County of Westchester, Vol. I — Passage 59 (part 2)

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[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] The Point, however, again reverted to the Dutch Church, who disposed of it to various individuals, from whom it descended by purchase to the pre-sent proprietors, James Talbot, Esq., and Col. John King.^ The first Dutch Church in this town, stood on the Brotherson farm at Yerplanck's Point, now owned by Mr. John Henry. This edifice was standing in 1793. Prior to its erection the mem-bers of the Reformed Dutch Society appear to have attended ser-vices at the Sleepy Hollow Church, for the following list of com-municants occurs in the records of that church, dated April 21st, A. D., 1717, entitled a continuation of the persons, members liv-ing in the manor of Cortlandt, and Patent of Capt. Dekay and Ryck Abrahamsen.