[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] limits of the manor till 1697, when the Sleepy I [ollow Reformed Church was organized at Tarrytown, and no other till 1843, when the Reformed Church was or-ganized at Yonkers. It would seem that the Dutch people of Colendonck, or " The Yonkers," as this ter-ritory was variously called, must have attended the original Reformed Church in New York City (founded in 1628), or contented themselves with occasional missionary visits to them of that church's minister or ministers, or lived without observance of religious worship at all. It is to be feared that most of them did the last. The first Lord Phil ipse and his second wife, Catharina van Cortlandt, gave proof of sub-stantial interest in their denomination by securing the organization of the Tarrytown church in 1697 and building a house for it in 1699. No doubt some of the Yonkers people connected themselves with that church. This is all we can now know or surmise of the church doings of the Dutch people, who were the earliest occupants of Yonkers ground. How the Philipse line was diverted from the Re-formed Church and became ardently devoted to the Church of England has been already related. The second lord was horn in Barbadoes and educated from his earliest years in England and wholly under English influence.