"THE MOUNTAIN SOCIETY:"

A HISTORY OF THE

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH,

ORANGE, N. J.

ORGANIZED ABOUT THE YEAR 1719 AS AN INDEPENDENT SOCIETY, AND LONG KNOWN
AS THE "CHURCH AT NEWARK MOUNTAINS" PRESBYTERIAN SINCE 1748; INCOR-
PORATED IN 1783 AS THE SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN NEWARK;
AND KNOWN BY ITS PRESENT TITLE SINCE 1811: WITH AN ACCOUNT

OF THE EARLIEST SETTLEMENTS IN NEWARK AND ITS VICINITY, THE

NAMES AND LOCALITIES OF THE FIRST SETTLERS NEAR THE
MOUNTAIN, THE CONTROVERSIES AND RIOTS RELATIVE TO
PROPRIETARY AND INDIAN LAND TITLES, INCIDENTS OF

THE REVOLUTION, THE FORMATION OF OTHER
CHURCHES, ETC., ETC.; COMPRISING THE

MOST INTERESTING PARTICULARS IN THE

CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS HISTORY OF
ORANGE.

BY JAMES HOYT,

PASTOR OF THE CHURCH.

NEW YORK :

PUBLISHED BY C. M. SAXTON, BARKER & CO.,

No. 25 PARK ROW.

1860.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by

C. M. SAXTON,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.

EDWARD O. JENKINS, Printer,

26 Frankfort St., N. Y.