 Some of the earliest settlers of the region were buried here, when it was attached to a since-demolished Baptist meeting house built in the mid-18th century.Among those buried here later include Enoch Crosby, a Revolutionary War spy believed to be the model for the title character of James Fenimore Cooper's novel "The Spy", and Joel Frost, a local politician who later served in the New York State Legislature and for a single term in the House of Representatives.The headstones themselves also display an unusual range of funerary art from the first graves through the last historically significant ones, in 1929.