[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] pily cancelled. Since 1845 there has been a succes-sion of twenty-one pastors, during whose terms of service there have been several, and in some cases powerful, revivals. The present pastor is the Rev. W. F. Hatfield, D.D. Christ Church (Episcopal). — Christ Church, Tar-rytown, was organized as a parish in 1836, and the church erected the following year. The Rev. William Creighton, D.D., was the first rector, who was also the rector of Zion Church, Greenburgh, Dobbs Ferry and afterwards of St. Mary's, Beechwood, in the township of Ossining, just north of the Mount Pleasant line. On the death of the Rev. Dr. Creighton, in 1865, he was succeeded by the present rector, the Rev. J. Sel-den Spencer, who had been his assistant since 1853. The church edifice has been twice enlarged and will peat about five hundred persons. It is especially in-teresting as having numbered among its members, from an early date, Washington Irving, who was for many years a warden of the church and a devout wor-shipper and communicant at its altar. Since his death, in 1859, Christ Church has been a kind of Mecca to the admirers of our great American author.