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The Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow (Dutch: Oude Nederlandse Kerk van Sleepy Hollow), listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Dutch Reformed Church (Sleepy Hollow), is a 17th-century stone church located on Albany Post Road (U.S. Route 9) in Sleepy Hollow, New York, United States.
Het Notite Boeck der Christelyckes kercke op de Manner of Philips Burgh [1] is a rare surviving record book of the Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow in Sleepy Hollow, New York. [2] Abraham de Revier Sr. evidently kept a private memorandum book that is now lost to history, which was heavily drawn upon in 1715 by Dirck Storm to compose the church ...
He is buried at the Old Dutch Church Burying Ground in Sleepy Hollow, New York. Dirck Storm is the ancestor of many notable Americans, including the famous clergyman David Storm, deacon and elder of the Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow. Many Americans with the last name "Storm" or "Storms" can trace their ancestry to him.
Old Dutch Church can refer to two buildings in the Hudson Valley region of the U.S. state of New York, both designated National Historic Landmarks: Old Dutch Church (Kingston, New York), formally known as the First Protestant Dutch Reformed Church of Kingston; Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow
Sleepy Hollow appears on this 1814 map as Philipsburg. In today's Sleepy Hollow, he established an upper mill and shipping depot, today part of the Philipse Manor House historic site. A pious man, he was architect and financier of the town's Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow, and was said to have built the pulpit with his own hands. [11]
That year, 150 acres (61 ha) were deeded to the family of Benson Ferris, one-time clerk of the Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow, whose wife, Maria Acker, was a descendant of Wolfert Acker's. [7] Irving would immortalize the Van Tassel family name in his short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820). [8]
The estate's land was used as collateral to raise money to fund the rebellion and later sold at auction. Some of the original structures still stand, including the Philipsburg Manor House in Sleepy Hollow, Philipse Manor Hall (the family seat) in Yonkers, and the Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow, all of which are National Historic Landmarks.
Old Ship Church: 1681 1960 Hingham, MA: Vernacular: Puritan, Unitarian Universalist: St. Luke's Church: 1682 1960 Smithfield, VA: Anglican: Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow: 1685 1961 Sleepy Hollow, NY: Dutch Reformed Church: Old Quaker Meeting House of Queens: 1694–1719 1967 Queens, New York City, NY: Society of Friends: Merion Friends ...