History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 257 (part 2)
Under the terms of the consolidation, the pastor of the Verplanck's Church was to preach in the village church part of the time, but all the bap-tisms, marriages and the names of communicants were to be registered at Verplanck's. Under the min-istry of Dr. Cornelius D.
Westbrook, and owing chiefly to his energetic efforts, the old " church on the hill " and the land surrounding it were sold and a new and more centrally located church was built on the south side of Main Street about two hundred feet east of Division Street. The corner-stone of this struc-ture was laid April 29, 1839, and it was finished the same year. It was a frame building.
The church was incorporated January 3, 1843, and called the Van Nest Reformed Dutch Church, the title being given in respect to Abraham Van Nest, of