[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] only good Mr. Wetmore and two Dissenting Teachers that are capable of duty. Northward of that is Coll. Philips's Manour, on which are people enough for a large Congregation without any minister at all. The Coll. has himself built a neat small Church and set oil' a tract for a Globe, which will be considerable in ' time, and he and his tenants are very desirous of a Minister, but will need the Society's assistance." With the exception of the preceding statements in regard to the Philipse family and their relations to the Manor of Philipsburgh, from which Greenburgh was taken and erected into a separate township in 1788, there is scarcely any information pointing to matters of historical interest connected with the lo-cality for about three-quarters of a century, — that is, from 17<>0 to 1775. The land had been purchased from the Indians, and the influx of European immi-gration, together with the natural increase of the white population, soon established the ascendency of civilization over barbarism. The whites increased; the Indians decreased and passed more and more out of sight. The whole of the township was occupied