History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 280
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] After the war the Jefferson Guards were reorgan-ized, and William H. Smith elected captain, March 1', 1865. In 1868, while under his command, the num-ber of the State Guards was diminished and they were disbanded. The Bleakley Rifles were organized in 1854, with D. M. Hyatt as captain. James M. Frear succeeded Captain Hyatt. During the war this company was broken up and was never reorganized. Pleasantsidb Presbyterian Chapel.— About a mile and a half from Peekskill, on the Furnace W Is Road, is located the Pleaaaniside Presbyterian Chapel. It is the result of a Sunday-school started in the neighborhood in 1879 by Edward B. Finch, a member of the Second Presbyterian Church in Peek-skill, which was continued for one or two years with such success that finally subscriptions were obtained by him aud others, and the chapel was erected in 1881, at a cost of seven or eight hundred dollars.