[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] aforesaid shall be appropriated to the use of the Rev. Solomon Mead's Church." April 0, 1790. At this meeting it was agreed "to give Renjamin Chapman excise for the present year on account of his completing some work to the meet-ing-house." Renjamin Chapman kept the " Old Church Tav-ern," formerly the first Episcopal Church in the town. It was closed by the patriots in 1776. In 171*' ► the first bridge over Croton River, at Dean's Rridge, was provided for, the sum of forty pounds being raised by Lower Salem on condition that Stephentown should raise a like sum. April f>, 1791, the overseers of the poor were " Au-thorized and impowered by the town of Salem to col-lect the property of Stephen Rrundage, who is now in a state of Distraction, and apply it tor his support during his illness, and to settle all the former ex-penses of taking care of him from his first distraction." April 3, 1792, Moses Newman and James Dann are