THE RHINEBECK METHODIST CHURCH.
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and John E. Brooks were appointed a committee to take charge new cemetery." It was agreed that all such as belong to the Methodist Church at Rhinebeck and its vicinity, and all
of the "
such as are
in
the habit of attending worship in Mission Chapel,
and contributing to the support of the gospel in said chapel, " shall be privileged to inter their dead in said burying ground under the direction of the committee. The Rev. Freeborn Garrettson entered the ministry in 1775 and, we are told, was appointed presiding elder over the district extending from Long Island to Lake Champlain, in 1788. In 1827, while at the house of a friend in the city of New York, he was taken suddenly ill and soon died, in the 76th year of his age and the 52d of his ministry. The church was incorporated with Freeborn Garrettson, the nephew, William Cross, Nicholas Drury, Jeffery H. Champlin, and William Mink, as trustees, on the 2d day of June, 1829, and the certificate thereof recorded on the Iith day of the same month, in Liber No. of records of church incorporations, on pages 97 and 98, Clerk's Office, Dutchess County. A deed for one rood and thirteen perches of land for a parsonage lot in the rear of the church lot, was presented to the church by Hon. Edward Livingston, on the 12th of November, 1829, (all the village lands having come into his possession by the will of his sister, Janet Montgomery, which was admitted to probate and recorded by James Hooker, Surrogate of Dutchess County, on the 28th of April, 1827.) A new parsonage was built on this lot in the same year, at a cost of $1,305.79. The subscriptions to meet this expenditure amounted to $664. Of this amount Mrs. Catherine Garrettson gave $300; Freeborn Garrettson, $75 William B. Piatt, $15 Rev. George W. Bethune, $10; David Rowley, $10; Cornelia Bayard, of Philadelphia, $10; and fifty-five others in proportion to their means, and their interest in the cause of the Methodist Church. i
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On
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the 30th of June, 1832, Mrs. Catherine Garrettson pre-
sented the church with half an acre of ground for the burying
ground south of the village, on the conditions that the church surround it with a good fence, and permit no more interments The deed for this ground in the ground attached to the church. bears date,
March the
27th, 1835.