[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] born at Waterbury, Conn., January 15, 1750. Some time after his thirtieth year he relinquished his occu-pation of farmer and became a minister of the gospel. His first charges were at Blooming Grove and Smith's Clove (now Monroe), Orange County, N. Y. Novem-ber 8, 178(5, the church at Yorktown invited him to become their pastor and he was soon afterwards in-stalled. In addition to bin labors at Yorktown, Mr. Constant preached every two or three weeks at Peekskill, prob-ably statedly at Red Mill, and occasionally elsewhere. In the latter part of 1790 the church at Red Mill was constituted a separate organization. Mr. Constant was a member of and in sympathy with Morris County (New Jersey) Presbytery, which was Presbyterian only in name, Congregational in everything else, and for twenty years quietly and per-sistently lab'ored to bring his congregation to the same belief. The result was a division of the church, and, on March 4, 1806, seventeen members, being about one-third of the whole'number, led by Judge Elijah