[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] The portion of the chimney taken down was three and one-halt inches wide, and seven relaid with the bricks, Ave feet breast, sixteen inches Iong.-ScMrf, n., o09. THE PHILIPSES AND VAN CORTLANDTS 163 port and loop holes for cannon and musketry. The difference be-tween the two residences in this respect is convincing proof that dur-ing the last twenty years of the seventeenth century, while the lower portion of the county had become practically secure against Indian depredations, the middle section was still deemed somewhat unsafe. The building of Castle Philipse was followed quickly by the advent of tenants, and in a comparatively few years quite a number of farming people had secured homes as far north as Tarrytown and beyond. The progress made toward the general settlement of the lands of that locality was so encouraging that Philipse deemed him-self under obligations to provide the people with facilities for re-ligious worship. To this worthy deed he was prompted by his first wife, Margaret; and his second wife, Catherina, also took a deep in-terest in the matter. The result was the building of the Dutch Reformed Church of Sleepy Hollow, one of the most noted of old religious edifices in America. From certain circumstances Dr. Cole, in the centennial address already referred to, feels justified in ex-pressing the conviction that the erection of the church was com-menced by Philipse as early as 1681.