[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] 1827, in the seventy-sixth year of his age, and in the fifty-second year of his itinerancy. The first legal incorporation of church trustees was made April 14, 1792. At that date " The male per-sons of full age belonging to the Methodist Episcopal Church in Yorktown were duly convened at the said church, the place where they statedly attend for divine worship, and did elect Timothy Oakley, John Oakley, Solomon Fowler, Joseph Hadden, Thomas Kirkham and Jacob Badeau as trustees." April 13, 1796, Pierre Van Cortlandt, for the sum of five shillings, deeded one and a quarter acres, upon HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY. which the Methodist Episcopal Church had been built, to certain persons as trustees. June 13, 1827, three-quarters of an acre adjoining ou the north was purchased lor a burial-ground, and April 1, 1853, six acres, with the house thereon, lying on the east side of the road and directly opposite to the then church property, from Hiam Mabie. On the 25th of June, 1807, the corner-stone of the present handsome church edifice was laid in a plot of six acres. The church was completed in December, 1870, and dedicated December 13th. Its cost was twenty-five thousand dollars, and much gratuitous work was done by the society. The church was attached to New Koch ell e Circuit from 1787 to 1792, to New Rochelle and Croton Cir-cuit from 1792 to 1803, to Croton circuit from 1803 to 1809, to Cortlandt Circuit from 1809 to 1833, to Peeks-kill Circuit from 1833 to 1842.