By the early 18th century, Staten Island's Dutch were concentrated in and around the area that today is called Port Richmond. One of the earliest commercial and transportation hubs on Staten Island, Port Richmond was once known as Decker's Ferry because Isaac Decker, a descendant of one of the island's original settlers, operated a ferry from Staten Island to New Jersey and Manhattan from here. In 1715 the first Dutch Reformed Church on Staten Island was built here. The Church, destroyed in 1780 was a wood framed, one story-hexagonal building that featured a high six-sided steeple. The current Staten Island Reformed church is the third building erected on the site. It is surrounded by a cemetery, called the "old burial place" in the colonial period, where several of the island's earliest Dutch settlers and their descendants are buried.