The top picture is a detail from the December 2, 1810, survey map of David [Henry? Philip?] Bonesteel's parcels. It was drawn by John Wigram, who was Livingston's Woodstock agent. Note the remarks about the value (or lack) of the land. The church is in the bottom right. Note also that North is oriented to the left on this map. The road shown going to Hutchins (more or less modern Plochman Lane) ended (map right) at the Saugerties Road, which is not shown. Also not shown is the Sawkill, which also would have been to the South (map right). Church historian Mark Anderson has another Wigram survey map (1822) that shows the Saugerties Road, the Sawkill, and the church. Note that Wigram spelled the leaseholder's name as "Bonistale."

Below the 1810 map is a "harmonized" version of the 1810 and 1822 maps done by Mark Anderson's surveyor son, Kemp. Mark now realizes that the first church building was not up on that ledge and north of 212; it was actually south of 212, between the road and the Sawkill. "This is congruent with the reported statement of Allen Nash, who transferred into the church from Rhinebeck in the 1830s, when he said that there was an old, unusable church building still standing halfway between the one on the Bonesteel lease (on the ledge) and the mill at the east end of town (present golf clubhouse). Interesting, eh?"

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