[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Seth Pomeroy.' Worn out after the battle, he re-turned to his home, but when the danger came in this vicinity he could no longer remain, and at the earnest solicitation of Washington he took the command here, and here he died on the 15th of February, 1777. A long procession of mutHed drums and reversed arms marched over the road to the old graveyard at the old church, which so many similar processions have fol-lowed since, and within this sacred inclosure lie the bones of the first commander of the American army, with no stone to mark their last resting-place." Many citizens of Peekskill and vicinity are buried in this graveyard, and headstones and monuments exist to the memory of the Penoyers, Wards, Drakes, Ferrises and many others. CORTLAXDTVILLE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH and Sunday-School. — The Methodist Episcopal Church in Cortlandtville was erected in 1853 and 1854, at a cost of about twenty-six hundred, dollars. The principal contributors were Messrs. James Rob-ertson, Stephen Curry and James D. Sherwood. It was dedicated on the 11th day of March, 1854, Rev. R. S. Foster (now a bishop of the Methodist Episco-pal Church) preaching the sermon. Services were held regularly until about the year 1866. Rev. F. S. Barnum, now pastor of a church at Thompsonville, Conn., was the only pastor settled here. The pulpit was filled during other years by clergymen from Peekskill and other places. Revival meetings were held with marked success.