[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] organized early in the century, but the act of incor-poration is dated the 2d of January, 1832. Shortly afterwards the first church was built. Its location was a good one, in the northeastern part of the town, on the highway leading from Danbury, Conn. The edifice was small, plain and well suited to the simple habits of the early members of the society. For many years the Methodist people gathered within its plain whitwashed walls and listened to the earnest exhorta-tion! of the old-time preachers. Jonas Keeler, Abel Smith, William Cable and Stephen Hyder were its first trustees. Its preachers were the same as given in the Somen history as having officiated on Cortlandt NORTH Circuit, and such historic Methodists as McKendree Bangs, Barney Mathias, Samuel Weeks, Nicholas White, Joseph Bangs, Cyrus Foss and others filled the old church with the power of their eloquent appeals to the unconverted. But the greater portion of the old generation of Methodists have passed away