History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 332
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] where I had but few. Returned to F s. We had a comfortable time at Oakley's church at 7 o'clock." Mr. Garretson was pre-sent five days later and made the following note: " Both at the Stony Street church on the morning of the 16th, and at the English church in the evening at Peekskill. I found much freedom in preaching the word of truth." From these records it is inferred that there was a Methodist Church at Shrub Oak as early as 1788. In 1788 Freeborn Garrettson was appointed a pre-siding elder, to extend the borders of the Methodist Episcopal Church up the Hudson. He was assisted in this work by twelve young preachers. His labors extended as far as Lake Champlain, and into Eastern New York, Western Connecticut, and Vermont. Be-