[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] building committee, who, desiring to put over the church entrance the inscription, "My house shall be called the house of prayer," referred the stone-cutter, for the sake of exactness, to Matthew xxi : 13, where the passage occurred. They were horrified to find over the door, when the work was done, the inscrip-tion, " My bouse shall l>c called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves." Hut the date is not the only doubtful point in the inscription, which altogether reads thus: "Erected and Built by Frederick Philips and Catharine Van Cortlandt his wife, in KiK'.t." Some considerations have already been adduced to show that the church was probably built a number of years before Catha-rine Van Cortlandt became the second wife of Frederick Philipse, and that excellent lady herself, in her last will and testament, seems to confirm the opinion. In her will, dated 7th January, 1730, she bequeaths the beaker and table-cloth — these are her words copied from the original manuscript will — "in trust to and for the congregation of the Dutch Church, erected at Philipsburgh,by my late husband, Fred'k Philipse, dee'd, according to the discipline of the Synod of Dort." According to her, then, it was erected by him, and not by him and her. The phraseology seems to indicate that she had nothing to do with its erection, and there is no record nor documentary evidence of any kind to show that she had.