1708 To Adrian Quackinbush for 100 boards st. at 28 st. apiece f140. " To Mathew Bensum, 10 days at 10f per day; mason 100. " To Martin Winne, 21 days at 10f; mason 210. " To Risso, the hod-carrier, 21 days at 3 realtje per day 95.10 " To 6 lbs. nails at 3f per lb. 18. " To the glazier, 23 feet of glass 69. " To Samuel Bayard, for 84 lbs. nails at 3f per lb. 252. " To 5 lbs. nails at 3f per lb. 15. " To lock for the door 7.10 -------- Total for 1708 907. 1710 Expended over 1708 f907. May 3 To Mathew Mott for iron work 84. " To Helmigh Roelofse for paving stone (steen blinkers) 86. " To Cornelis Van Vorst, 2 lb. nails at 3f per lb. 6. " To Hendrik Clausse Kuyper for 4 lb. nails 12. " To Gerrit Stynmets for 4 lb. nails 12. Oct. 3 To Gerrit Roose for laying the ceiling 40. " To his board 6. " 10 lbs. nails 15. " To 10 boards at 36 stivers apiece 18. " For carting the boards 7.10 -------- Total cost f1,193.10 [Illustration: COLUMBIA ACADEMY.] Several citizens, evidently gratuitously, carted materials to the site, in all sixty-three loads of stone, twenty-one loads of clay, five loads of sand, one load of lime. Repairs were made in 1782. In 1790 the Columbia Academy was erected on the same site and stood until 1857, when the present school-house, No. 11, was built. In the rear wall of this building are many of the stones used in the old Academy and it is ornamented with the same weather vane that adorned the former building. Tradition states that this is the veritable weather vane that first surmounted the steep roof of the Octagonal Church, then was removed to the second church, from which it was placed on Columbia Academy when the present church was erected in 1841.