[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Circuit was formed in 1787. It comprised Westches-ter County, and the " regions beyond," and the names of its faithful itinerants, Moriarty, Garrettson, Phoebus, Brush, and others, are still remembered in the oldest Methodist families, in this and neighboring towns. The first churches organized under their efforts were those of North Castle and New Rochelle, which were incorporated iu 1791. As the cause of Methodism prospered, there grew up in the county several offshoots from the New Rochelle circuit; first it was extended and called the New Rochelle and Croton; then the Croton was set off; then, in 1809, the Cortlandt; in 1826 the Mount Pleasant; and in 1833, the Bedford Circuit. Under each of these, except the Cortlandt, the churches and classes in Bedford and New Castle were successively cared lor. The Cortlandt circuit was the northern part of the county. During the early years of this century, prayer and class-meetings were held at the houses of leading Methodists in this vicinity, notably those of James Hall, in Hall Street, (nowSarles Street) and of Caleb Kirby, at Kirbyville, both members and officers iu the North Castle Church. A great revival about 1818 and an increased attendance at these meetings and at the meetings of the circuit preachers, led to a dis-cussion of the question of organizing a church at New