[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] of Sleepy Hollow, which is preserved as a relic and memorial of the past. Its history is full of interest, and deserves a larger commemoration than the limits appointed for this record will allow. It is much to be regretted that there are no data which enable us to fix the exact year either when the church edifice was built or when the ecclesiastical body was organized. In the old minutes of the church, which, however, do not go back beyond No-vember 3, 1715, translated from Dutch into English by Jacob Brinkerhoff, in 1876, there is a reference to Margaretta Hardenbroek Philipse, the first wife of Frederick Philipse, as a benefactress of the church and congregation, and thanks are expressed for what she had done in their behalf. Theprecise date of her death is not known, but two things are quite certain: She was alive in 1679,1 and Frederick Philipse mar-ried his second wife. Catherine Van Cortlandt in 1(592. The first wife, Margaretta, must have died therefore, be-tween these two dates, probably not later than 1690. As the service for which the congregation expressed its gratitude must have been rendered by her before that time, it is clear that the congregation itself must also have previously existed. The church record further says. "To show in what manner these first Christians seemed to have lived ' S,-.' It..1 ton i. M'J.