[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY. The number of members in the year 1884 was eighty-four, and of scholars enrolled in the Sunday -school.sixty-seven. Dr. J. B. Gregory is superintendent. The elders are Dr. J. B. Gregory, Samuel Pugsley, Benson Dyekman and William Birdsall. The deacons are H. B. Strang, E. M. Powell, Isaac Pugsley and Mel-vin Cronk. Roman Catholic — The Church of the As-•sr.Mi'Tiox.1 — The Catholics of Peekskill attended church at Verplanck's Point until the year 1858. In that year, at the time of the Feast of the Nativity, Peekskill was established as a mission, under the charge of Rev. Nicholas O'Donnell, of Verplanck's, and afterwards attended from that place. A hall was procured in Division Street, between Centre and South Streets, where divine services were held. Father P. L. Madden was appointed pastor August, 18(53, and through his exertions and the zeal of the leading Catholics, the present church was erected in 1865. He was succeeded by Rev. James Hasson, whose