History of Westchester county : New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City / . at Croton Land-ing, which is of peculiar interest in connection withthis inquiry. Referring to a statement made by •See accountuf Wolferte BWJt umlvr Greenburgh. General Van Cortlandt, father of her late husband,Col. Van Cortlandt, she says: When General PierreVan Cortlandt was living, he told me that there wereseveral coffins under the church bearing old dates,and, as near as I can recall it, one which lie saw of achild, covered with green cloth or baize,
History of Westchester county : New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City / . at Croton Land-ing, which is of peculiar interest in connection withthis inquiry. Referring to a statement made by •See accountuf Wolferte BWJt umlvr Greenburgh. General Van Cortlandt, father of her late husband,Col. Van Cortlandt, she says: When General PierreVan Cortlandt was living, he told me that there wereseveral coffins under the church bearing old dates,and, as near as I can recall it, one which lie saw of achild, covered with green cloth or baize, and the datein brass-headed nails, somewhere among the fifties,—that is, between 1650 and 1660. This fact, aboutwhich there can be no question, lends support to theidea of earlier dates generally than those so oftenaccepted without examination, and even withoutthought. It is true,the stone tablet built into the wall onwhat is now the front, or west end of the church, men-tions 1699 as the date of its erection, but that tablet isknown to have been put there at a comparatively re-cent date, probably not earlier than 1837, when the. OLD DI TCH CHT IUII, SLEEPY HOLLOW, building was renovated and the entrance changedfrom the south side to the west end toward the diligent inquiry, no one has yet been found whoremembers to have seen it over or near the old dooron the south side. It has long been thought to beerroneous. Two facts go to show its recent origin. The firstfact is that the inscription is in plain modern Englishand in English letters. But the old Dutch settlerswere very tenacious of the Dutch language. If therewas anything in the world that was sacred, it wasthat. They talked and wrote and read and sang inDutch. The minister preached in Dutch, and thechurch records down at least to April 28, 1777, wereall kept in Dutch. As far down as September 25,1785, the ordinances were all administered in that day the Rev. Stephen Van Voorhees baptized 20(1 HISTOR
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