[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] From 1876 to 1884 the Rev. Henry M. Torbert was assistant minister of the parish. The present officers of the church are as follows: Wardens, Hon. Owen T. Coffin and Calvin Frost; Vestrymen, Thomas Snowden, M.D., James H. Robertson, Jr., Colonel Charles J. Wright, Valentine Hauf, Philip Hoffman, Hon. James W. Husted, J. Van Ness Smith and Charles F. Southard; William T. Aisthorpe is super-intendent of the Sunday -school; F. R. Manser is choir-master; and Mrs. Julia Depew, organist. The Reformed Dutch Church.— In the history of the First Presbyterian Church of Peekskill has been given an account of the formation, in 1813, of an Independent Presbyterian congregation, which met in " the church on the hill," on Diven Street. After the withdrawal of the Presbyterian elemenl there-from, the church became Congregational in character. It fell into a state of weakness, however, and in the year 1831 made overtures for a union with the Re-formed Dutch Church at Verplanck's Point, then the only church of that faith in the town. These pro-posals were favorably entertained, the property and debt of the Peekskill congregation were assumed and the members were received under the title of "the Reformed Dutch Church of Cortlandtown." The num-ber of members at the time was eleven, six of whom were women.