The remainder of the bricks that came out of the chimney-tor. strange to say, there was a remainder, and a large one. and with them he Minnerly bought too-Mr. tilled in a new house, twenty-two feet front . bj feet deep and two stories high, twenty-eight for the purand found them amply sufficientthat when the pose. The bricks were so hard masons who did the work wished to cut them In size, liged to use a hatchet they wer each brick was an inch and a garter thicl. seven and wide, inches one-halt three and inches Iong.-ScMrf, n., o09.
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port and loop holes for cannon and musketry. The difference between the two residences in this respect is convincing proof that during the last twenty years of the seventeenth century, while the lower portion of the county had become practically secure against Indian depredations, the middle section was still deemed somewhat unsafe. The building of Castle Philipse was followed quickly by the advent of tenants, and in a comparatively few years quite a number of farming people had secured homes as far north as Tarrytown and beyond. The progress made toward the general settlement of the lands of that locality was so encouraging that Philipse deemed himself under obligations to provide the people with facilities for religious worship. To this worthy deed he was prompted by his first wife, Margaret; and his second wife, Catherina, also took a deep interest in the matter. The result was the building of the Dutch Reformed Church of Sleepy Hollow, one of the most noted of old religious edifices in America. From certain circumstances Dr. Cole, in the centennial address already referred to, feels justified in expressing the conviction that the erection of the church was commenced by Philipse as early as 1681.