[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] Smith " Luther Kinnicut served in the capacity of a spy to General Washington during tlie RevohUion, see page 12. b Mr. Wright occupies tlie estate formerly owned by James Bailey. « This gentleman is the son of John Titus, and great grandson of Samuel Titus, whose father, Edmund, was born in England, in 1630, and came from Mas-sachusetts to Long Island, in lfJ50. SeeThompson's Long Island, vol. ii. 54. COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 141 and Mead. Stages during the summer months, leave this place dally for Lake Mahopack,-''^ a distance of five miles. Nearly oppo-site the depot, the two main branches of the Croton river unite. The Presbyterian Society was first organized here, in 1833> under the pastoral charge of the Rev. Joseph Nimmo. A neat and commodious church edifice has been recently erected, to which is attached a small parsonage and grave yard.i^ Church Memoranda. 1847, Communicants, 25, Baptisms, 2. Bordering the Croton river, are the estates and residences of Mr. Silas Finch, Mr. Edwin Crosby and Thomas R. Lee, Esq. The latter gentleman represented (in 1S42) this county in assem-bly. Within a short distance of the village, is situated the property of the late Lewis Brown, Esq., whose grandfather, Hachaliah Brown of Rye, purchased these lands under the heirs of Ste-phanus van Cortlandt, in 1760. His son Elbert, at present, re-sides on the estate. West tSomers, as its name imports, is situated to the west of Somerstown Plains.