At the close of the Revolution in 1782, when Beverly Robinson’s lands in Fredericksburgh were seized by the State Legislature and sold at auction, a half-acre parcel on the road from New England to the Hudson was reserved for the Episcopal Church and a burying ground, and part of that land became the beginning of the combined cemeteries here today. The earliest recorded grave is that of Thomas Flemming, who died in 1792. In 1803, a committee from Christ Church was appointed to confer with the Presbyterian Society about the burying ground that congregation had established eight years earlier beside its new meeting house on adjoining land. Revolutionary War veterans, including Henry Ludington, who died in 1817, his daughter Sybil, and other early members of both congregations are buried in the combined churchyards. Some burials, including that of the Rev. David Close, who died in 1783 and was originally buried in the Old Meeting House cemetery north of the Triangle Inn Corner, were later relocated here. The rear portion of the Old Presbyterian Cemetery did not come into use until 1849, after the demolition of the 1795 Meeting House and the construction of the present Presbyterian Church building in 1838. As the church cemeteries filled, the Maple Avenue Cemetery Association was formed, and in 1863 its trustees bought land along Maple Avenue just north of and adjoining them. The first sections were divided into family plots and include some Civil War graves. Additional development has since continued to the east and north, and the view looking south over the original church lands suggests how this part of Patterson might have looked 100 years ago.