[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] — A society of Bap-tists existed in the town of Cortlandt at a very early date, as would appear from a document bearing date of December 17, 1772, in which Caleb Hall, Sr., Isaac Horton, Sr., Daniel Hall, Richard Williams, Nathan Elliott, John Poun, Joshua Horton, Caleb Hall, Jr., Nathan Brown and Oliver Yeomans obli-gate themselves each to contribute one-tenth part of a sum of money necessary to pay otTthe debt remain-ing on a church recently erected by " the society of people called Baptists."1 This church, according to Bolton, was located on the six acres of land at Cort-landtville given for church and school purposes, and directly on the site of the present school-house. An entry in the books of the Baptist Church in York-town is to the effect that on the 14th of October, 1823, a request was received from the Baptist Church at Peekskill (undoubtedly the one mentioned above), asking that they dismiss a number of their members to revive the congregation there. Reuben (Jarretson and four others were dismissed to the Peekskill Cburch in accordance with this request, but the society passed out of existence, nevertheless, at a period probably not much later. The church known at present as the First Baptist 1 Mam-hanl -|>.-i.k-i..I iw,. ihuivhes nt lln-olil village tltted upas lu>»-pital*. Oih' »a« St. Peter's, ami the other the llaptlst church Church of Peekskill was organized by a council that met in the Reformed Dutch Church October 4, 1843.