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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 121 (part 3)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Both the language and the spirit take us l>ack for three or four hundred years into tin-past, and stand in the broadest contrast with the sell-reliant individualism and independence of our America* citizenship at the present time. In reading the preface it must be remembered that the church, then called " The Christian Church of the Manor of Philipsburgh," had never kept any records of its ecclesiastical attairs up to 1715. It was then de-