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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 339

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[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] I.V.t house was erected at its present situation in 1832, on one acre of land, conveyed November 9, 1832, by George Mekeel to Daniel Smith, Aaron Underbill, Edward B. Underhill and Isaac Mekeel. The num-ber of members at present (1884) is twenty-one, and of Sunday-school pupils eighty. The elders of the church are Jacob Mekeel, Mrs. Jacob Mekeel, Susan Shipley and Daniel Smith. The Monthly Meetings of the church at Peekskill (now almost gone out of existence) and of the church at Croton are held at this meeting house. The Mohaxsic Methodist Episcopal Church. — This society was incorporated April 3, 187t?, and John Vail, John B. Tompkins and Henry C. Kear were elected trustees. Meetings were held for some time at School-House No. 3, at Yorktown Station, and are now conducted in the upper room of a stable in the rear of the Whitney House. A beautiful house of wor-ship has since been completed. The number of mem-bers is twenty-one, and there is a Sunday-school hav-ing about sixty pupils. The church is connected with