" First and before all the right honorable, God-fearing, very wise and prudent, my lady Catharina Philipse, widow of the lord Frederick Philipse, of blessed memory, who have promoted service here in the highest praiseworthy manner." The Dutch church and its vicinity is thus described in the well-known legend of Sleepy Hollow. " The sequestered situation of this church," says the author of the legend, " seems always to have made it a favorite haunt of troubled spirits. It stands on a knoll surrounded by locust trees and lofty elms, from among which its decent whitewashed walls shine modestly forth, like Christian purity, beaming through the shades of retirement. A gentle slope descends from it to a silver sheet of water bordered by high trees, between which peeps may be caught at the blue hills of the Hudson. To look upon its grass-grown yard where the sunbeams seem to sleep so quietly, one would think that there at least the dead might rest in peace. On one side of the church extends a wide woody dell, along which laves a large brook among broken rocks and trunks of fallen trees. Over a deep black part of the stream, not far from the church, was formerly thrown a wooden bridge ; the road that led to it and the bridge itself were thickly shaded by overhanging trees, which cast a gloom about it even in the day time, but occasioned a fearful darkness at night. "a

The second son of the Hon. Frederick Philipse by Joanna Brockholes, and brother of the last mentioned Col. Frederick, was Philip Philipse, proprietor and devisee intail of the Upper Hight and Patent. He was born in New York A. D. 1724, and married Margaret, daughter of Nathaniel Marston, b who is described as " a worthy woman," and died May 9th, 1768.