[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] He points out that its bell was cast to order in 1685 — " proof positive,'' he declares, " that the building had already been begun/' But according to the only au-thentic records in existence, it was not until 1697 that the church organization was effected and a minister, Rev. Guiliam Bertholf, summoned. The tablet over the door of the church states that it was built in 1699, but this tablet was probably not put up until within comparatively recent years, and it records the accepted date of the completion of the structure, making no mention of the time at which it was begun. Philipse was a worshipper within its walls, and he was buried in a vault beneath it, which was prepared ex-pressly for his family. His decided preference for the Pocantico house as his permanent place of residence is illustrated by his selec-tion of the Pocantico instead of the Nepperhan settlement as the location for the church building. We have now traced the early history of the various original land patents and grants along the shore line of Westchester County, ex-tending from the mouth of the Byram River on the Sound to the Hudson, with incidental accounts of the principal patentees or grantees and of the settlements established.