Men and Things in A lhany Tioo Centuries Ago. 45 



I have a plan of the interior of the church, the ground 

 floor taken from a pen drawing of the slips, which had 

 been promised to me for several years by Mr. Samuel 

 Pruyn, and which he left with me, providentially, as we 

 are accustomed to say of the smallest events, only two 

 days before he died, or we would now have no clue to the 

 form of the interior. It is seen from this that the bell was 

 rung in the middle aisle, and that the stoves were placed 

 on a level with the galleries, supported on posts, and that 

 the smoke pipes went out through the wall. The last of 

 the sextons in this church was Cornelis Yan Schaick. 

 Having finished ringing the bell he tied the bell rope around 

 the post, placed in tlie aisle for the purpose, and went up 

 into the galleries to inspect his fires. He clambered over 

 the front of the galleries, and, having filled the stove with 

 wood, closed the door with such unconscious force as to 

 produce a tremendous bang. 



The fronts of the galleries were studded with nails, upon 

 which the occupants of the seats hung their hats, as is seen 

 in one of Hogarth's pictures, so that the manner and 

 custom was not peculiar to this locality ; but it presented 

 a novelty to the stranger which was rendered the more 

 picturesque and attractive by the variety of their style, 

 color and condition. The roof was ceiled upon the rafters 

 with boards, from the walls to the cupola, and a chandelier 

 supplied with candles was suspended in the centre. The 

 windows were in the style of what is now termed French, 

 that is in two frames opening laterally on hinges ; and were 

 composed of smaller compartments or sashes, containing 

 twelve panes each, representing the name and family arms 

 of the person at whose expense it was placed there — the 

 glass stained by a process said to be lost. The panes were 

 about five inches square, and so little care was taken of 

 these family escutcheons when the church was removed in 

 1806, that but four of them are known to have come down 

 to our time entire. I have a portion of one of these sashes 



