[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] ing been eidarged and is still in use as a burial-place. Regular services have been held in this church and regular pastors have been in charge since its organi-zation, in 1794. The oldest decipherable headstone in the church-yard is that of " Anna Teed. daughter of John and Hannah Teed, who was born in the year of our Lord 1703, Nov-', and dei^r"1 this Life June the 4", 1797." Some twenty-five years ago Cortlandt Circuit, as such, was broken up and Mt. Zion became a sepa-rate charge, as did the other remaining churches com-prising the circuit. The membership of this church has averaged some sixty names, while the number of families in the charge is as many more. Owing to the peculiar system of the itinerancy of the Methodist ministry, it is a difficult matter to obtain the dates ot ministry of the different pastors who have regularly occupied this pulpit, Among the earliest, however, we find the historic names of Revs. Elijah Woolsey, Stephen Remington, Barney Mathias, Cyrus Foss, Samuel Weeks, Elbert Osborn, John Reynolds, Jesse