[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Cole says that " around were farmers who brought to the mill their grain to be ground and their logs to be sawed. ' They (the Philipses) found the old graveyard, as old as the settlement, with regard to which 1 have no difficulty in accepting Mr. Irving's belief that it had been started as early as 1645 and that it had in it three graves by 1050, and fifty by 1075, and one hundred and eighty by 1700." J According to this changed ^pTop^f the question of the antiquity of interments and his opinion is apparent* con-the graveyard, see the statement by Benjamin curred in by the author of Scharfs article on F CorneU, superintendent of the Sleepy Hoi-the Town of Mount Pleasant, the late Rev. low Cemetery, in Scharf, ii., 293. Mr. Cornell John A. Todd, adopts the date 1645 as that of the earliest 1(52 HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY view of Dr. Cole's, Tarrytown and the country round about belong-to the oldest settled localities of the county. Of course the fact of the presence of a mill before the coming of Philipse would lend color to the belief that settlers in some numbers had been there and in that vicinity for a period of years. This much is certain: that a mill; whether an old one established by some enterprising pioneer whose name is unknown to us, or a new one built by Philipse, was in operation on the Pocantico from the time that Castle Philipse was erected by the proprietor.