[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] But he had previously devoted many years to the purchase of the estate and its gradual preparation for aristo-cratic pretensions, had built two mansions, one on the Nepperhan and one on the Pocantico, had established well-equipped mills, and had encouraged the coining of tenants by giving them land on the most liberal terms. After the erection of the manor he was active in various ways in improving the property and promoting its avail-ability for permanent settlement. He built across the Spuyten Duyvil Creek, in 1694, the first bridge connecting the mainland witii Manhattan Island, which has been known from that day to this as the King's Bridge. Having established his permanent country resi-dence at Castle Philipse, on the present site of Tarrytown, he built near there the first church in the western section of the county — the far-famed Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow.1 In a communication from 1 See p. 163. While the present History lias every personal and local name, of its four great boen going through the press, there has been registers of members, consistorymen, baptisms, published a little book entitled, " First Record an(J marriageSi from its organization to the Cook of the Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hoi-eighteenth century. Translated and low, Organized in 1697, and now the First Re-