Abraham de Revier, Sr.

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Abraham de Revier, Sr. was the first elder of the Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow in Sleepy Hollow, New York when it was organized in 1697.

He was one of the ninety-six original members of the church and was the patriarch of a leading family in the Sleepy Hollow community. He 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's history. The Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow's book of records is one of the most important books in Early American history. "Het Notite Boeck der Christelyckes kercke op de Manner of Philips Burgh" is a rare surviving record of Dutch Colonial American village life in English-occupied New York province.