a volume, is the second, from 1786 to 1866; and a third volume of births and deaths alone from 1828 to 1893. Volumes lacking in this collection are the records of births and deaths previous to 1828: and of marriages from 1774 to 1786. The records of the present Orthodox Meeting in full, as well as the following two volumes of the records of the Preparative Meeting of Ministers and Elders at Oblong, are in the possession of William H. Osborn on Quaker Hill; first from 10th month, 12th, 1783, to 1st month, 13th, 1878; and second from 1878 to present time. Last of all, the record of births and deaths of the meeting, from 1810 to the present day, following the line of the Orthodox society, is in the possession of the Post family on Quaker Hill. [2] LOCAL HISTORY SERIES. David Irish--A Memoir, by his daughter, Mrs. Phoebe T. Wanzer, of Quaker Hill, N. Y. Quaker Hill in the Eighteenth century, by Rev. Warren H. Wilson, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Quaker Hill in the Nineteenth century, by Rev. Warren H. Wilson, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Hiram B. Jones and His School, by Rev. Edward L. Chichester, of Hartsdale, N. Y. Richard Osborn--A Reminiscence, by Margaret B. Monahan, of Quaker Hill, N. Y. Albert J. Akin--A Tribute, by Rev. Warren H. Wilson, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Ancient Homes and Early Days at Quaker Hill, by Amanda Akin Stearns, of Quaker Hill, N. Y. Thomas Taber and Edward Shove--a Reminiscence, by Rev. Benjamin Shove, of New York. Some Glimpses of the Past, by Alicia Hopkins Taber, of Pawling, N. Y. The Purchase Meeting, by James Wood, of Mt. Kisco, N. Y. In Loving Remembrance of Ann Hayes, by Mrs. Warren H. Wilson, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Washington's Headquarters at Fredericksburgh, by Lewis S. Patrick, of Marinette, Wis. Historical Landmarks in the Town of Sherman, by Ruth Rogers, of Sherman, Conn. CHAPTER II. THE LOCALITY. In the hill country, sixty-two miles north of New York, and twenty-eight miles east of the Hudson River at Fishkill, lies Quaker Hill. It is the eastern margin of the town of Pawling, and its eastern boundary is the state line of Connecticut. On the north and south it is bounded by the towns of Dover and Patterson respectively; on the west by a line which roughly corresponds to the western line of the Oblong, that territory which was for a century in dispute between the States of New York and Connecticut. Its length is the north and south dimension of Pawling. This area is six and a half miles long, north and south, and irregularly two miles in width, east and west. Quaker Hill can scarcely be called a hamlet, because instead of a cluster of houses, it is a long road running from south to north by N. N. E. and intersected by four roads running from east to west. The households located on this road for one hundred and sixty years constituted a community of Quakers dwelling near their Meeting House; and until the building of the Harlem Railroad in the valley below in 1849, had their own stores and local industries.