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A History of the County of Westchester, Vol. I — Passage 130 (part 5)

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[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] " The sequestered situation of this church," says the author of the legend, " seems always to have made it a favorite haunt of troubled spirits. It stands on a knoll surrounded by locust trees and lofty elms, from among which its decent white washed walls shine modestly forth, like chris-tian purity, beaming through the shades of retirement. A gentle slope descends from it to a silver sheet of water bordered by high trees, between which peeps may be caught at the blue hills of the Hudson. To look upon its grass-grown yard where the sunbeams seem to sleep so quietly, one would think tliat there at least the

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