rmharing@acd-pc.com wrote re Rev. Silas LEONARD: <<Do you think he pastored in Newburgh before he came to Goshen? Or the reverse? It's a distance, still a half hour at least by a good highway. There is a book on the Presby church in Goshen readily available which would tell you the years he pastored in Goshen.>> This is from the book "A Tower in the Land of Goshen" (a history of the First Presbyterian Church of Goshen NY): "The longest period during which the Church has been without a spiritual head in all its two and a quarter centuries seems to have been the interval of approximately two years between the death of Mr. Bradner [1732] and the resumption of normal church activities under Rev. Silas LEONARD. ..........Mr. Leonard's pastorate, like Bradner's, is said to have lasted until death, although nothing is recorded of his interment here." Silas LEONARD's will is dated March 27, 1764 and was proved May 21, 1764.