[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] from the best data that can be obtained, that the inter-ments in the Old Dutch Church-yard began between 1645 and 1655. This would agree with the date which Mr. Irving assigned to the erection of " Wol-fert's Roost " in 1656. How long was the grave-yard set apart to its purpose before the erection of the church? If we say that the church was not built until 1(599, it would lengthen out the period on this computation to about fifty years or more. But even taking the statement that Frederick Philipse did not begin to purchase from the Indians under the royal grant until 1680, and assuming that the church was not built until 1699, it involves the astonish-ing and almost incredible con-sequence that nineteen years passed away after his first purchase before he built the church. This can hardly be reconciled with the vote of thanks adopted by the church and congregation and recorded on their minutes to the " Hon. Lord" Philipse, in connection with his first wife, Margaretta, who must have died before 1692 (when he married for his second wife Catharine Van Cortlandt), for the many blessings enjoyed by the church through their instru-mentality. < )n several occasions, one of which is referred to by the Rev. Dr. Stewart in his Historical Discourse, it has been found necessary to take up the church floor in order to make repairs.