But the enterprise failed for want of funds to finish it, and Dogtown went to the dogs, and the Chapman family to Nyack.

Report has it that the church was afterwards finished and converted into an insane asylum, where several of the brothers and sisters lived for the rest of their lives.
It was hinted that Chapman had brought some money to Nyack with him, but exactly how much no one knew.

The only thing positively known about him at that time was that he had a great number of new ideas, all of which he was in great haste to develope.

Indeed, he soon had Nyack in a state of continual agitation.

He declared it his first duty to open the eyes of the Dutch settlers to truth and right; then to get them to thinking; and finally to make fortunes for all of them.