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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 412 (part 2)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Pre-vious to the advent of the railroad very few parish-ioners were to be found in this immediate vicinity; but, with the construction of the Harlem Road, there came a new element of the population, bringing with them the desire for the privileges of the church of their choice. Accordingly, a plot of land, which had been sold by Major Bailey to Cornelius Travis, was pur-chased from the latter, and the erection of a house of worship commenced. The church was finished in