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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 343
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] of Yorktown. It is a white frame building, with two large columns in the front, and is surrounded by a cemetery probably a little less than a couple of acres in extent. A parsonage close by the church is of a value of eight hundred or a thousand dollars. The Baptist Church was originally a branch of the church at Stamford, Conn. The first pastor, ordained by the advice and with the assistance of the church at Stamford, was Reuben Garretson. His ordination took place at Yorktown July 10, 1788. October 15 of the same year the society was constituted the Baptist Church of Yorktown, Cortlandt Manor. The number From a sketch prepared from the records l>y Klias I). Tompkins, ont of the deacons of the church. I YORKTOWN.