 The account also states that the altarpiece was still extant at this time.Lossing counted twenty-one members of the congregation, white and black combined, on this occasion.Also included in the book is a description of the site of the church; at the time of the writer's visit, it stood on the edge of a primeval forest composed largely of oaks, pines, and chestnuts, which extended "almost uninterruptedly" to Mount Vernon.