[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] belonging to Jacob Rider. He afterward held his meetings in a barn, not far from where the village-now stands. We are told that, in 1793, he preached in this barn, a box serving as his pulpit, hoards for scats and hay-mows for galleries. Jacob Rider and Caleb Smith were the great workers in the promotion of the Methodist religion in those early days. The latter, about the year 1800, having ottered his own house as a place for public worship, the cider-mill and barn were abandoned, the circuit preacher visit-ing the place, with considerable regularity, once in four weeks. The house of Caleb Smith was located near the junction of Dale with Croton Avenue. The room in which the meetings were held for almost twenty years would accommodate about sixty persons. Bishop Asbury is known to have visited this place OSSINING. 345 again and again. Space will not admit of giving the : names of the early preachers who held services here. After the removal of Caleb Smith to the neighbor-hood of the present camp-meeting grove, services were held at different private houses for several years. The original Caleb Smith, of whom we have been speaking, had two sons, Caleb and Isaac, who were converted in the Methodist faith, and who became j earnest workers in the cause. In 1823, and possibly earlier, meetings were held in the Franklin Acad-emy, which stood on the grounds now occupied as the Episcopal rectory in Spring Street. Here the preachers were Horace Bartlett, Peter C.