By which it would appear as said above. The receipt at two periods of the deaconship by said Jan Ecker has been and will amount to ^288 17 o.

The receipts of Jacobus Sie, deacon in 1701, were ^254 if. Credit expenditure for the church for bread and wine for communion to the sum of ^61 10. And the present moneys are found to be, £192 11 ; which have been put in the box at the church. ^254 1."

Upon the 24th of August, 1787, Isaac Stoutenburgh and Philip Van Cortlandt (Commissioners of forfeitures for the southern district of New York,) conveyed to the trustees of this church and their successors, etc., " all that certain church and two acres of land adjoining thereto, including the burial ground situated near the upper mills in the said manor, bounded southerly and west by the post road or highway, and north and eastwardly by the land of Gerardus G. Beeckman; and also that certain farm of land situate and lying and being in the said manor of Philipsburgh, etc., bounded westwardly by Hudson's river, northerly by land now or late belonging to John van Wart, easterly by land now or late belonging to Jacob Buckhout, and southerly by land now or late Gloud Requa's containing 100 acres more or less," etc.a

The first incorporation of the Reformed Protestant Dutch church in Philips manor took place on the 24th of January, 1792/

Pkedikanten van db Kbrk of Philipsbubg.

Ttd van Bevesteging. Predikanten.