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

and his opinion is apparent* coninterments curred in by the author of Scharfs article on Pleasant, the late Rev. of Mount the Town John A. Todd,

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view of Dr. Cole's, Tarrytown and the country round about belongto the oldest settled localities of the county. Of course the fact of the presence of a mill before the coming of Philipse would lend color to the belief that settlers in some numbers had been there and in that vicinity for a period of years. This much is certain: that a mill; whether an old one established by some enterprising pioneer whose name is unknown to us, or a new one built by Philipse, was in operation on the Pocantico from the time that Castle Philipse was erected by the proprietor. The Yonkers and Tarrytown mills were styled by Philipse, respectively, the Lower Mills and the Upper Mills. The residence on the Nepperhan at Yonkers was very substantially built, " the bricks, and indeed all the building materials," says was then esMrs.' Lamb, " being imported from Holland at what teemed aprodigal expenditure.