Lent and Abraham Moutross, the elders and deacons of the Reformed Dutch church of the Manor of Cortlandt in the County of Westchester and State of New York of the second part, for the sum of one dollar grants, confirms, &c, all the land before recited in Cockcroft's deed to the elders and deacons to the said parties of the first part their heirs and assigns for ever a pew nearly square, sufficiently large enough to contain ten persons in the church now erected on the said premises and likewise that the small building or school house also erected on the said premises shall always be and remain for the use of a public school, &c."

" Charles White & Lydia Wutie.'-0

It is claimed, however, that Mrs. White (alias Cockcroft) had previously conveyed seven hundred acres of land in water lot No. 7, extending from Hudson River to the Furnace woods on the coast to Stephanus Hunt, which included the church property ; so that the Dutch Reformed church actually held under Hunt for some time by peaceable possession. Be this as it may, Elias Hunt, son of Stephanus, subsequently conveyed to this society the sixteen acres they now hold inclusive of the one acre, two quarters and three rods conveyed by Cockcroft in 1795.

In the cemetery surrounding the church are several monuments to the Lents, Montross's, Brinckerhoffs, &c, &c; also a plain head stone inscribed as follows : --

"Sacred to the memory of DR. PETER GOETCHIUS, who died the 21st of Sept., A. D. 1828, aged 70 years, 5 months, and 20 days, having been for 35 years an elder of the Reformed Dutch Church in Cortlandtown, and died as he lived a Christian.