[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] branch of the religous Society of Friends commonly known as the Hicksites. Upon the same ground stood the firstmeeting-house of the Society of Friends in Yorktown. From the records of meetings of Friends elsewhere in the county, it would appear that a society existed in Yorktown as far back as 1 7(>0. Steps were taken towards building a meeting-house in 1772. It was built in 1773 and a separate meeting constituted in 1774. October 10, 1774, a deed was given by John Clapp, of Greenwich, Connecticut, and Joseph Wal-ters, of Cortlandt Manor, to John Griffen and John Cromwell, of Westchester County, and John Cornell, Uriah Field and Thomas Clapp, of Greenwich, Con-necticut, conveying to them a tract of two acres of land at " Ammcrwalk," in Cortlandt's Manor, and another parcel of land eight by ten rods in extent, "the aforesaid lands... being the same tract or parcel of land on which stands the meeting-house in whit'lg the people usually called Quakers meet." The land mentioned in this deed, together with one and one-quarter acres subsequently purchased, constitutes the lot around the present meeting-house. The Amawalk Meeting at this time was subordinate to the meeting of the town of Harrison.