David Cole, in his " History of Yonkers," written in 18S6, discussing the subject of the two Philipse houses, makes no allusion to possible settlements at or near Tarrytown antedating Philipse's appearance, or to the pre-existence of a mill there, simply remarking that he chose the banks of the Pocantico " as a site for a new mill." More over, in the same connection, speculating with regard to the period the Poat which Philipse established himself in his residence on death ot cantico, Dr. Tole concludes that it was not until after the discourse historical his in Yet 1091. or in his first wife, Margaret, delivered at the third centennial of the old Dutch Church of Tarrytown, October 11, 1807, Dr. Cole, after fixing upon 10S3 as the year when Philipse removed to the Tarrytown dwelling, says that he found there, at that earlv date, "a small community already gathered." Pocantico " a mill site Already, he informs us, there was upon thewhich already had upon like the Van der Donck site of Yronkers," it " a simple dwelling for the miller," upon whose foundations Castle Dr. Cole says that " around were built. ' Continuing, was brought Philipse who to the mill their grain to be ground and their farmers ' They (the Philipses) found the old graveyard, as be sawed. logs asto the settlement, with regard to which 1 have no difficulty in old accepting Mr. Irving's belief that it had been started as early as 1645 and that it had in it three graves by 1050, and fifty by 1075, and one hundred and eighty by 1700." J According to this changed ^pTop^f the question of the antiquity of the graveyard, see the statement by Benjamin Sleepy HoiF CorneU, superintendent of the Mr. Cornell low Cemetery, in Scharf, ii., 293. earliest the of that as adopts the date