[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The lot of one and one-half acres, in which the building is situated, was purchased from John Conklin the eleventh month and eighth day of the year 1797, by Robert Underbill, Joseph Wheeler, Jesse Fields and Henry Matthews, as trustees of the society, for the sum of twenty-two pounds ten shillings, and the meeting-house was, doubtless, erected but a short time after-wards. Robert Underbill and Phebe Fields were the first ministers. Atone time the society was so numer-ous that the meeting-house had to be enlarged. The same building is still occupied. In the rear of it is a grave-yard about one acre in extent. The church has a seating capacity for about one hundred and twenty-five persons. The number of members in 1844 was twenty-five, and three other persons belonging to another meeting attended regu-larly. Meetings are held twice a week, on the Lord's day and Thursday mornings. The Croton Society attend the monthly meeting at Yorktown. The Church of St. Augustine.-— Episcopal services were held at Croton in 1756, by the Rev. James Wet-more, a missionary at Rye, of the Society for the Pro-pagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. In 17(il services were performed by the Rev. Ebenezer 1 > i 1 > -blee, a missionary of the society at Stamford, Conn.' In 17(i.'! the Rev..Mi'. Punderson, another missionary of the society, stationed at Rye, held a service at < 'ni-ton. There is no record of further ministrations by Episcopal clergymen in the village until 1842, in which year the Rev.