History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 257 (part 2)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Under the terms of the consolidation, the pastor of the Verplanck's Church was to preach in the village church part of the time, but all the bap-tisms, marriages and the names of communicants were to be registered at Verplanck's. Under the min-istry of Dr. Cornelius D. Westbrook, and owing chiefly to his energetic efforts, the old " church on the hill " and the land surrounding it were sold and a new and more centrally located church was built on the south side of Main Street about two hundred feet east of Division Street. The corner-stone of this struc-ture was laid April 29, 1839, and it was finished the same year. It was a frame building. The church was incorporated January 3, 1843, and called the Van Nest Reformed Dutch Church, the title being given in respect to Abraham Van Nest, of