The school-house referred to in the agreements which we have presented, was located on a triangular lot of ground situated on the east side of the main street, directly opposite to the old parsonage and present Consistory Room, on the site now occupied by the store of Mr. Michael Schoonmaker & Son. There were three distinct buildings joined together, and evidently erected at different periods of time. The most eastern, which was probably the first erected in the town, was built of stone, and stood about sixty feet from the street, being one story high. The second was composed of wood, more elevated than the first, having a steep roof in front, and a long sloping roof in the rear, reaching so near the ground as to admit of only a small window behind. The third was also a frame building, of more modern date, the gable end of which fronted the street, and stood on a line with it, but built in the sane style as the last—the roofs exactly corresponding with each other, and although it was probably erected fifty years subsequently, still the same model was tenaciously adhered to. The whole fronted to the south, with the gable end, as we have said, to the road, having two rooms in front and two small rooms in the rear, and in more modern times the east end of the building served as a kitchen. The westerly front room was always used as the school-room, and the small room in the rear of it, (usually called the "prison," from the fact that unruly boys were occasionally confined in it,) was also used for school purposes, when the number of scholars was too great to be accommodated in the front schoolroom. The residue of the building, with the kitchen and barn, was occupied by the schoolmaster and his family. The village school was kept in this building until about t he year 1803. In the year 1805, the old school-house was sold to Bateman Lloyd, Esq., who took it down, and with the timber and other materials of it, built a store on his own premises, a few feet north of his dwelling-house. The building erected with these materials, continued to he kept as a dry-goods and grocery store, until the year 1825, when it was removed and converted into a barn, now on the premises owned and occupied by Dr. Zabriskie. After the school-house was removed, the lot on which it stood, laid in common for some time. During the last war with Great Britain, the government erected a gun house upon the north west angle of the lot, sufficiently large to hold two heavy field pieces. About the same time, the store now owned by Mr. Michael Schoonmaker, was built upon part of the premises, and in the year 1823, the present parsonage house was erected on the southern portion of it, which embraces all the ground commonly called the school lot.

The first person who taught English, was Petrus Van Steenburgh. He was schoolmaster from the year 1762, to 1773. At what time precisely he commenced teaching English we cannot tell. But he had at the same time, as well as his successor, pupils in both the Dutch and English language. And as all the scholars were in the habit of speaking Dutch, it required some little management on the part of the worthy school-master to make his pupils who were learning English use that language entirely. His rule was that no scholar who was instructed in English should speak a Dutch word in school, and if