[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The Rev. John N. Freeman, a student in Princeton Theological Seminary, received and accepted a call to the pastorate, and was installed May 14, 18*58. In 1870 a parsonage was completed immediately oppo-site the church at a cost, for lot and buildings of thirteen thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. It is considered one of the handsomest and most con-venient manses along the river. On the 21st of June, 1870, the Presbytery of Westchester, consisting of the churches of Westchester and Putnam Counties (except the church at Cold Spring) and in the State of Connecticut, was constituted. The Presbyterian Churches of Peekskill have since remained under its jurisdiction. Mr. Freeman resigned his pastorate on account of ill health, and on January 23, 1876, the pulpit was declared vacant. The number of mem-bers in the church at that time was two hundred and thirty-nine. Mr. Freeman was afterwards pastor of the church in Lockport, N. Y., and removed thence to assume the charge of Emanuel Presbyterian Church, in Milwaukee, Wis., where he was preaching in 1884. The Rev. J. Ritchie Smith, a native of Baltimore and a graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary, became pastor June 26, 1876, and still (1884) holds