''Het Notite Boeck der Christelyckes kercke op de Manner of Philips Burgh''''Notitie Boeck'' would be the proper old Dutch spelling, also a bit strange is the use of the English word ''of'' (in Dutch ''van''), which is clearly not the Dutch word ''of'' which means ''or'' in English is a rare surviving record book of the

Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow The Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow ( nl, 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. Ro ...

Sleepy Hollow, New York Sleepy Hollow is a village in the town of Mount Pleasant, in Westchester County, New York, United States. The village is located on the east bank of the Hudson River, about north of New York City, and is served by the Philipse Manor stop on ...

.Reproduced as: 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 Dirck Gorisszen Storm (16301716) was an early colonial American who recorded the first official history of the Dutch community at Sleepy Hollow. His book ''Het Notite Boeck der Christelyckes Kercke op de Manner of Philips Burgh'' is a rare docume ...

to compose the church's history. The Old Dutch Church's book of records is one of the most important books in early American history—chronicling Dutch Colonial American village life in the English-occupied

Province of New York The Province of New York (1664–1776) was a British proprietary colony and later royal colony on the northeast coast of North America. As one of the Middle Colonies, New York achieved independence and worked with the others to found the Uni ...

. The book is divided into five "books" or divisions: *First Division: Dirck Storm's Brief History of Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow. *Second Division: Members Registrar, 1697–1775 *Third Division: List of Elders and Deacons, 1697–1776, 1790 *Fourth Division: Baptisms, 1697–, 1791 *Fifth Division: Marriages, 1697–1790

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First Record Book of the 'Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow' Organized in 1697 and now The First Reformed Church of Tarrytown, N. Y.
New York (state) culture History of the Thirteen Colonies Books about New York City 1715 books {{NewYork-stub