Rev. David Close, died March 19, 1783. Age
40 year

DAVID CLOSE, son of Solomon and Deborah (Brush) Close, of North Salem, Westchester County, New York, and grandson of Joseph and Rebecca (Tompkins) Close, of North Salem, was born in 1742 or 1743. He was thus at least 28 years of age at graduation, and immediately proceeded to the work of the ministry.

On January 7, 1772, he was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Duchess County, New York, and soon began to supply the North Congregational or Second Church in Phillips Precinct, in the present township of Patterson, Putnam County. He was ordained and installed as pastor of that church on November 24, 1772, and served it until his death there on March 19, 1783, at the age of 40.

He is said to have been an ardent patriot and to have suffered much for the cause.

The following lines are inscribed on his tomb :
A Minister of Jesus Christ lies here,
Dear to his flock, to the great Shepherd dear,
Faithful to God and to his sacred trust,
Most strictly and inwardly just,
His soul was unaffected and sincere,
He spoke but what he thought, and void of fear
Did boldly all the truth of God proclaim,
Nor courted favor nor attempted fame.

Biographical sketches of the graduates of Yale College : with annals of the college history (1885)
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Inscriptions from the Cemetery at Patterson, Putnam County, N.Y. Close, Rev. David, Mar. 19, 1783, 40y.
(Rev. David Close founded the Presbyterian Church at Patterson. Licensed by the Presbytery of Dutchess in 1772, he went to Fredericksburg, now Patterson, and gathered the "North Congregation of Fredericksburgh."
From 1774 to 1782 he also preached at Carmel, or the "West Congregation" eight miles distant. He faithfully served his large and scattered parish during the Revolution, and the whole force of his ministry was used to give courage and faith to the people in their struggle for independence.)
from Tombstone Inscriptions FOSTER-LIVINGSTON COLLECTION
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CLOSE FAMILY
This family are quite numerous at the present day. They were settled (Bolton's Hist. Westchester Co., vol. ii.) formerly at Langsley, near Macclesfield, England, A.D. 1486. The word Cloughes, now contracted into Clowes and Close, is an old Saxon word, and signifies a cliff or cleft in a valley between high hills. Thomas Close removed to Greenwich in or about 1661. He had four sons, Thomas, Joseph, Benjamin, and John.
From the second of these, viz., Joseph, the family at North Salem claim their descent. He was born in 1674, removed to North Salem in 1749 and died in 1786. Before he removed from Greenwich, he lived near the present residence of Jonathan A. Close. He married Rebecca Tompkins, who died in 1761. Their children were — 1. Joseph, 2. Elizabeth, 3. Solomon, 4. Sarah, 5. Rachel, 6. Thomas, 7. Benjamin, and 8. Rebecca.
Solomon, the second son of this Joseph, was born June 23d, 1706, and died 1788, aged 82. He married Deborah Brush and had ten children, viz.: I. Solomon, of North Salem, who left — 1. Mrs. Paddock, 2. Phebe, married Epenetus Wallace, a physician of North Salem. II. Nathaniel, of North Salem, born 1732, and died in 1773 and left — 1. Nathaniel. 2. Jesse. 3. Isaac. 4. Deborah, who married Thomas Chapman. 5. Rachel. 6. Sarah. 7. Matilda. III. Deborah. IV. Hannah. V. Rev. John Close, of North Salem, a graduate of Princeton, and born in 1737, and died in 1813. He preaching at New Windsor in 1792. He married a Miss Weeks, from Long Island, and left two daughters, who live at Waterford, New York, where their father died. VI. Sarah. VII. Jesse, who died at Half Moon Point, on the 29th of June, 1758, aged 17, while in the military service of the colony. VIII. Rev. David Close, a Presbyterian minister of Paterson, N.J. He suffered much in the Revolutionary war. He was a graduate of Yale, and died in the town of Paterson, in Putnam county, in 1783, aged 41. IX. Rev. Tompkins Close was a Presbyterian minister, and died, aged 27, at Fishkill, on the 26th of September, 1770. X. Mindwell, who married Elizabeth Mead, and died on October 22d, 1762.
Benjamin, the third son of the Thomas who emigrated to Greenwich, had nine children — to wit: Benjamin, Martha, Elizabeth, Reuben, Jonathan, Nathaniel, Samuel married Miss Mead, Mary, and Nathaniel.
Samuel, the seventh son of Benjamin, married Miss Mead and had eight children — to wit: Samuel, who died while engaged in the Revolutionary war, Elnathan, an active partisan in the war, Henry M. Close married Rosina Brundage, Benjamin, Jonathan, Daniel, Hannah married Peter Mead, and Deborah married Zaccheus Mead.
Henry M. Close, the third son of Samuel, married Rosina Brundage, and had Samuel, an only son.
Samuel, son of Henry M. Close, for more than twenty years the Town Clerk of the town of Greenwich, married Eliza Hobbie, and left — 1. George W. Close, who married Miss Esther Smith, daughter of Col. Smith, of Long Island, and Samuel, George W., Esther, Caroline, and one other. 2. Rebecca is the daughter of Samuel.
A HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF GREENWICH, FAIRFIELD COUNTY, CONN., WITH Many Important Statistics. BY DANIEL M. MEAD, ATTORNEY, ETC., AT LAW, GREENWICH, CONN.
NEW YORK: BAKER & GODWIN, PRINTERS. CORNER NASSAU AND SPRUCE STREETS. 1857.