[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Bolton gives a story, it is true, about her riding up from New York with her brother on " moonlight nights " to superintend the erection, but on what authority no one knows. It was a pretty long ride to be taken at night, and why she came up on "moonlight nights" to superintend the work, rather than in the day-time, as one would suppose she would, is not stated. The whole story is very doubt-ful, to say the least. The second Lady Philipse was evidently a noble Christian woman, who did a great deal for the church and the cause of religion after she became the mistress of the manor. She may have aided very largely in completing the church, or in rendering it more comfortable and attractive, but that she, jointly with her husband, erected the church, the facts, so far as we have them, do not show. Her own testimony on that point seems decisive. The preface to the church minute-book is itself a valuable contribution to the history of the chu and of those early times, and as it has never be published iu full, it is here given in Mr. Brinkerhoffl translation from the Dutch. It breathes a reverential, pious spirit, such as might be expected from real Christians. But its tone of extreme deference toward the lords and ladies of the Philipse family is specially noteworthy, as indicating the grandeur of the feudal lord, and the respectful homage of his tenants and retainers.