The earliest churches of New York and its vicinity

Front matter

REYNOLDS HISTORICAL

^n-NFALOGY COLLECTION

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Preface

be indulged. Our object lias been to present the information in a concise and clear manner. The chapters are collected into the present volume, that something useful may be better preserved, and made more accessible to all who esteem and venerate the history, faith, and hope of our earliest churches.

The Clove, Staten island, Christmas, loGi.

Contents

CII AFTER I.

Tho Collegiate Reformed Dutch Church of X civ York the Earliest Formed in North America — Motley’s “ Rise of the Dutch Republic" — Emigrants Sent to America by the West India Company — Director Minuit’s Arrival. 10-0 — I'hc ZU kentrooster — Uev. Jot as Miehadius, ! e First Minister — Dominic Bogardus — First Church — The Second, St. .Nicholas, How Built — Earliest Ministers — Garden Street Church Built- — Middle ami North Dutch Built. Page 13

Chapter II

The Dutch Early Introduced Schools in New Amsterdam — Evert Pietersen, the Ziekentrocstei — ocuooiitouse Bu.it — Cmhueu Publicly witch Bed — -Nviv Au'iStexdau* becomes Now York — ’ The Si hoed C-oMimu i as Usual, but Broke u Up for a time by Gov< t nor Coi n ;■ — Schcolbouse Erected on Garden Street — Continued three-quarters of a Century — English Introduced in tho Public Religious Services — "Sons of Liberty”— -American prisoners in the Churches — Great Fire of 177o— School Reopened After the Peace of 1763 — New Schoolhouse Built in 1S47 £y

CHAPTER TIL

First Burial-place in Now York — Services of the Church of England Introduced, 16G4 — Mr. Vesey, the First Rector — < harlot tv Temple’s Grave— Rev. Elias Neau — Dr. Vint l — Episcopal Free School Established — Episcopal Churches ( losed in the Revolution — Drs. Cooper, Auvhmuty. Charlton, Barclay, higlis — Reply to "Common Sense’’ Seized by Sons of Liberty ami Burned — General Jlowe Land?; in New Y«rk — The Groat Fire, 177d--Dr. Inglis B tires to Nova Scotia, and there made Bis top— -The Kin As Farm — Trinity But* ed and Rebuilt — St. George’s. St. Paul’s, and St. .John’s built— Govt rnor Flctdtor’s Arrival; a High Churchman — Churches Ordered to be Erected in Westchester, Suffolk, and Richmond— Citizens Taxed for their Support 74

CHAPTER, IV.

Trinity Church— Its Princely Liberality— Churches Helped— Queen's Farm— First Wardens and Vestrymen — Subscriptions to tlm Building — New Edifice — Governor FI teller’s Anns and Pew — King's Farm— Ministers’ Salaries Small — Fees— Rev. Mr. Yesey and his Assistants— 1 Trinity Id n larged. 1737 — Queen Anno Presents Communion Sets, and the Bis op : Loudon, a Pared Ail Library — Death oi Mr. Vtsey 03

CHAPTER V.

Rev. Henry Barclay Lidu-tcd into Trinity Church. 1 7 iA— Chapel of Ease, St. George’s— Drs. Milnor and Tvng — isldngtuii an A i 1 - 1 1 1 . - mol J i < i, an Vssistant

Minister of Trinity : dan C. \ i 1 1 >n. o- t Vostn Dr. Johnston

tin Firs* Presi lent of Col tbia College- Organ !*• *r ft ’ . . I ■

Rev. Jol a Ogilv ; . hi D atii an i B -rn fa *t sons— St. l’.u l's B tilt, 1 7C — Here Gt neral W ..-hington also W irshipru .1 — Rev. Mr. s irdi . 11 imin ■ I uni Dr. it • i, A . 1 nt Ministers in Tmdtv-'-Mr. Beach, ol* Connecticut,-- It. alii of Rev. l>r. Am. duality 71

CHAPTER Yf.

St. George’s Burned in 1 c'l ! Eibi ralii v < ! ja in T. O

m Assi t I! r-r-.Mr. il t. A < 'ketch P.

Hobart, a warm < ie. ■ •amaii. Elect. <1 1 . i - 1 « »f >. 1 .> 1 1 — Hi.. ‘ 1 ii.h. I'lo — Dr. Ill man I... d 11 tar lit i’t . IB . I E-nrv A nt itoii and 1 >r. J. M W. w ight, \ - • i ' ■ n ' Mil Dr. V i w r i g ! i • . '■ i ; « , an- i i , . ... n A ' t

Trinity-- E dll p 1 *« d r- 1 ■ .»; — 1 he Present beautiful ’1 : it. l\ eta cted. and i ..msei r Ueu M ;v 21. le-bd — i.’ev. i le mas C. Biowucil t>0

CHAPTER VII.

The Fpi-oopa! Chuve!. Early Regarded tin* l'-t it li.-hnu nt of S. in the Be Ur) —lb m 1; lions to the School, an I a Hi j'c Built diool at first He’d street— The N > v

CONTENTS,

Edifice in Varick Street — Origin of Kind’s, afterwards Columbia, College — The “King's Farm" — Twenty -live Thousand Dollar Legacy Page 6G

CHAPTER VIII.

In 1GS5, the Jews refused Permission of Public 'Worship by the City Authorities— Churches in Governor Dongan’s Administration — Petition* of the Jews — Synagogues Built in Baltimore and Richmond — Burial-place in 1G72 — First Synagogue Built in Mill Street — Jewish Families near it — Harman Hendricks — Lev. Ger shorn Isaac Joshurun Pinto — Mr. Seixas — The ltabbis — Karnes of the Present Temples — Jewish Worship — The Iloly Light 94

CHAPTER IX.

Luther's Name a Wnymark in the Church — Two Centuries Ago a Lutheran Congregation in Now York — Lev. Jacob Fabritius — But Four Clergymen of the Estui iished Church in New Netherlands— Conformity attempted — The Lutherans and Baptists Troubled — William Hallet Fined Fifty Pounds, *and a Baptist Preacher One Hundred Pounds, and Ordered from the Colony — Lev. Ernest us Goatwater Banished — Governor Stuyvcsant Censured for his Persecutions — In 10G4 New Amsterdam Becomes New Yi.rl; — Lutherans Erect a Church, 1702 — Lev. Barnardus Arentins its Pastor — Lev. Jacob Fabritius — iiis Successor*: — Swedish bettie uient on the ILlav. arc —In ! 710. i'l n*e Thousand Palatines arrive in New York — Church Burned in 177u — Grace (Episcopal) Church Occupies the Spot — Lev. Mr. Municubergu — Swamp- Church— I)r. Huiizie — Shadier- Strobed — Gcissenhainer — Dr. Milledoler in German Reformed Church, Nassau Street 102

CHAPTER X.

Origin of Friends or Quakers in England — George Fox— Early Persecuted at Boston — William Penn — Robert Hodson Arrives in New York. PAG — George Fox Visits Long Island, 1G72 — 1 Two Women the Fii*t Preachers — The Male Preachers — Persecutions — Mrs. Anna Bayard nobly Interferes in their Behalf— Meeting-house on Liberty, Pearl, and Lose Streets — New Edifices on Hester, Henry, Orchard Streets, Gramercy Park, and Stuyvcsant Square 115

CHAPTER XI.

L’Eglise du Saint Esprit — Its Pastors — Lev. Mr. Norm — His Descendants, Captain Oliver II. Perry, Dr. Francis Vinton — John Pinlard, 1 L. IX, and M«*mb rs of this Church— Marot's Psalms — Huguenot Psalmody — Old French Translati( n of the One Hundred and Thirty-seventh Psalm — TheC'iimcb Removed to Leonard Street — Lev. Mr. Vcrren — Sacred Orators— James Saurin — His Brilliant Eloquence 121

CHAPTER XII.

Wall Street Presbyterian Church — Its Origin and Ear': s: Preachers — Church Erected on Wall Street — White-field Labors — Difference of Opinion in tin* Congregation — First Associate Reformed Church, Built on Cedar Street— Lev. John Murray.. 131

CHAPTER XIII,

Wall Stre t and ; ick Churches — Rev. Dr. Rogers the “ Father of Presbyterianism” in New York— Lev. 0 rdiner Spri z C !! d t Brick • liureh — II s ( liurch Turned into a Hospital in the War m R m- 1 iwfui Sc. u s in it — W ill Street Chi l “Charity

School’’— Lot g,-r> and u;.r Stiv«.t Churches Buii:— Drs. Miller ati.i McKoiglit— Lev. Mr.

Wludpley— Dr. i’hillii — Wall street Clmrcli Removed to Jersey City— Members of the Brick Church — Anion G. l’i. o p — Horace Holden 142

CHAPTER XIV.

Cedar Street Church F<v;r.d-d — Dr. L unvn Called — (lunch !:• moved to I’,. ■: "‘re t - Lev. Dr. Potts— A ■ 1 s of Cedar S • - . t 'liurcli- -Old Members— V li.-m II . of Clove* lai d, the only Sin i • r • l Subscribe! 1 P Peri

— Dr. J. V. A lex mder li . 1 , i on 1 Fi i Avon 1G0

CHAPTER XV.

Scotch Preshy ierlan Church Built — L \. John Mason- -I [is S - a. Job ti M M .on 1>. IX, Succeeds him— Th ■ ■ miuarii’S Established — Dr. Mason in t ’ : • W liter—

llis Work <>ri “ Cat i ■ : ‘ "iii!,:in'.«,.i" — I’lcsiJ.uit •'!' » > • i - • « - V-M- r,. snod-

mil McAuleV am i d him in the Murray tivot Cn tiou Remove to As tor l’iatw-- A.isuciato Pros! y tei irm Church- 1. truest Cnunhes — Foreign

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CONTENTS,

History — Rev. James I’rond fit AiTivcs in this Country, with Other Ministers — New Union Formed, and its leader? Rev. Thomas Clark, Robert Annan, Dr. Alexander Prmuliit — Settlement of Irish Presbyterians in Orange County, New York, under Auspices of Col. Clinton — Another in Washington County Pug© IC t

CHAPTER XVI.

Colonel Rutgers Presents a Lot for a New Presbyterian Church — Dr. Milledolcr Called — Drs. McClellan, McAuley. and Krebs his Successors — Reformed Presbyterian Churr.li Organized — William Ognek— Rev. Mr. McKinney's Arrival — First Sacrament — Alexander McLeod Installed— His Sermon on Negro Slavery — Church Riveted on Chambers Street— Rebuilt, and then Removed to Or er.wich Village— -Dr. McLeod's Last Public Appearance in the Pulpit — II is Labors — Leadij r M m vs of his Church, Messrs. Ague1 w, Gilford. Nelson — Rev, John N. McLeod Succeeds his Father — Church Removed to Prince street 174

CHAPTER XVII.

Associate Presbyterian Church Formed bv Rev. Mr. Beveridge, 17S5. and House Erected on Nassau Street — His Successors Unite with the General Assembly of Presbyterian Church Ministers — Magazine Street Church, afterwards Pearl — Its lirst Pastor. Rev. Robert Forest — His Successors, John ( lark. Willi un W. Phillips. Walter Monteith, Benjamin Rice, lie:'.;/ A. Rowland, Charles II. Lead — Church Biu-ue.u .mil Rebuilt — Baptist CL a; „k C» •lui.ic-nced, 1762 — Its Founders— Eidei Gano — Gold Street church turned Into a Stable for il j Briti h Cavalry — Ministers — New Stone * huroii bulk 1=1 2 — Slavery Question— New Congregation Formed on Rose Street-Rev. Mr. Parkinson — New Church Built on Broome and Elm Streets, Rev. Dr. Cone, Pastor — Churches sprung from Gold Street Congregation 15d

CHAPTER XVIII.

Baptist Churches, continued — “Bet lies da" — Second Baptist Church — Bethel, on Rose Street — Pastors— Rev. Mr. Chase — Ills New Church on Christie amt Delancey— Difiicultics — Oliver Street Church — Lev. John Williams, Pastor: Mr, Cone, Assistant — Abyssinian Chinch in Anthony, m ar West Broadway — Ministers— North Berea h Church in Vanda in — A Colony from Gold Street— Destroyed by Fire, anil a New House built in McDowell Street — Pastors — Other Churches from the Bcrean 199

CHAPTER XIX.

The Moravian Church — ' Unites F rat rum" — Its Origin — Count Zinzr-ndorf- — Missions — David Bruce sent to Preach in New York and on Long and Staten Islands— Bishop Spangenberg’s Visit. — Captain Garris -n — Mission Commenced on Staten Island — Ministers ilaiv — Cemetery— Commodore Vanderbilt's Family Vault -Mr. Binninger’s Grave — Church Built, 17C8 • — Church Records — Captain Jacobsen Shot — Saiisa Missionary Ship — Pastors — Moravians in New York. IThO — Bish< »p Boehlor's and Zinzo idorf’s V I -it — 1\ rsecutii ns — 15 i hop W ittivel’s Visit — Fulton Street Church Built, !7-~>l — Pastors in New York — Benjamin Mortimer, William Vanvieek, afterwards Bishop, Mr. Bigler 205

CHAPTER XX.

Origin of Methodism — Condition of England when Wesley Appeared — Opinions of Bishop Bunu t and \i Id ip S eker and I ft th r — W< 1 y Pro h ng to t or tines in

Ireland, 175,,—P! • 1 - •. '< .. Father of American Methodism— lri h Lay Preachers,

Swindells— l'liil’j) G imr — Walsh-- -thou key's Opinion of him — Embury emigrates to New York, JTf'O. dviiv. ring . - East r*crmo i in Ireland from tie- ■ ide o! tlm Shi;. — \m»t Ar-

rival, in 1 T GO, at N< \v 5 i rk, oi Irish Wcsieyans — Paul lluekic, Jacob lleck, and others iilS

CHAPTER XX T.

Methodist Church, emit nued— Captain Webb Appears— lligging-loft Obtained for Religious Meet ings— J .a Sir. ■ • i h B It, 1 7 to. the 1 • t Methodist Church in \n vie.’.- Subscriptions 1 1 1 1 Eli ’d i ■ : • ■ C reb I’oni the \ i strv and lb ms- <>t Trimtv r. .d : s - t 'apt. .in WcbbV Lif-- Jh. r'.mi Film r-. t . lit « Wi >h .m Pi i< i.-> «« An 1 ie.i. IB - - As-

bury ami W ri M .• d, J T 7 1 — Ruihiiry's P* alii- si r.u go some u; J dm et < hot. i. •«»

1 Colonel I it- - A Mot 1 : I

ill the United St-.t. • .a:/. .1. Ui - 1-5 - L ip; I A , . m • . - « »'.! Edm n .'own

Church Erected — Fathers « I Methodism in New Yurs.--.Mr. 1 upl'-naud ids D. -• •ubauts 22'!

CHAPTER XXII.

Description of Nco N ■ I, by 1 t r Isaac J ' mit Ml lonary, IfiCl Ills Jour-

neyf.— Muidered by the Indians— Earnest Catholic Families in New York— Governor Don-

CONTEXTS, gan — Laws against the Roman Catholics — Negro Plot — Catholic Priest Officiating in New Ncthcrland — James II., on the Throne, Favors his own Creed — Dongan Recalled — William and Mary Proclaimed King and Queen — The Kngiish Church becomes the Established ovne in New York — Persecutions — A Congregation formed in 1733 — Sr. Peter's, Barclay Street, built in 1TS0 — Rev. Mr. Nugent its Minister — His Successors — St. IVier's Rebuilt in 1&36, Bishop Dubois Laving the Corner-Stone — St. Patrick's followed, in 1315 — Here Bishop Hughes resided — The Catholics Purchase Dr. Lv ell’s Episcopal Church, Ann Street — Dr. McLeod’s. Chambers Street — The old Universalist. on Duane Street, and the Presbyterian on Astor Place — Universalist Church — Rev. John Murray the Earliest Preacher — A Society Formed — Rev. Edward Mitchell becomes their Minister — They Pup-hasc a Church on Pearl Street, and soou a iter erect the Brick Church on Duane Street, near Chatham — Mr. Mitchell continued their Minister until his Death, a period of Forty Years — Ilis Successors in the Ministry Page 241

CHAPTER XXIII.

Huguenots among the Earliest Emigrants to America — Their First Ministers — Edict of Nantes — Henry IV. — Fall of Rochelle — Edict Revoked — Emigration of the Huguenots — Admiral Coii.gny (1555). — French Protestants reach Charleston, Boston, and New Rochelle — Rev. Daniel Bondet — New Paltz (1077) — Walloon Churches — Staten Island 252

CHAPTER XXIT.

Huguenot Refugees Settle New Rochelle, 1603 — Church Organized and Built — David Bonrepos, Eh D., first Pastor— Preaches on Staten Island — Receives " Letters of Denization"’ — Manor of Pelham — Daniel Bondet the next Huguenot Minister — Ilis Early History— Missionary to the Nipmug Indians, 1093 — War Compels him to Leave — Called to New Rochelle — Salary Thirty Pounds — Prayers in French— Ilis Congregation Conforms to the Church of England, 1709 — New Church Built — Governor Hunter — Negro Communicants — Lewis Roux, Huguenot Minister in New York — Bondet 's Death, 1722 — Pierre Stouppe Succeeds him — The “Anciens,” or Elders— Negro Baptisms — French '‘Dissenters" — Mr. Moulinars — Earliest Settlement of New Rochelle— Mr. Stoupp.ds Death, 1700 — Buried under Chancel of the Church — His Successor, Rev. Michael Houdin 209

CHAPTER XXV.

Re 7. Peter Daille and Michael Houdin at New Rochelle — The Huguenots there Conform to the Episcopal Church (17311 — Rov. T. Bartow, First Rector — Ilis Descendants — Successors in tin Ministry — Fri.nity Built — Rev. Mr. Bayard— Pennsylvania and Maryland an Asylum for Huguenots— Dr. Richehourg their firs t. Pastor in Virginia— "Mannikin 1 own” — Curious French Relic — R v. .R im F<-ti rainy — Huguenots in South Carolina, and Pastors — Church in Charleston — Rev. Elias Prioleau — This Congregation the Only One of the Kind in our Land —Its Liturgy 270

CHAPTER XXVI.

Bouthold the First Settled Town on Long Eland (16101, Rev. J. Youngs. Pastor — His Successors—James Davenport an Enthusiast, but Reforms — Southampton < hureh l>n It. 161 ) — Rev. Mr. Pierson— tin Plantation Covenant'’ — The Rel rnicrs Emigrate to Now rk. N wJ rs v

— Ministers of Southampton — Salaries — Bridgehamp ui Paris! — M nisti rs— Brook haven the Largest Town— Rev. N. Brewster and Sueeosso ■ Laui| n Se; d l>\ Puritans (104s) — Strict Laws — Voting — I'hom.vs James, Karliest Past u — Ilis Sing liar Dying 1 Rev. N. Hutting — Dr. Buell Preached 1'* • ; ; Thousand Sermons — Dr. Lyman Beecli r, the

Fourth Pastor. .’ 290

CHAPTER XXVII.

Cliurcl es on Long Isl; nd, conti . d — 1 1 mi tin • on— R ■ v. Mr. Jones, First Minister— Ri v. Ebon* ezer Pi imo his Assistant, then Suit Pastm Cong gaiion mils 1 ■ -

tiouarv War— Outrages «»f ih.* Lie i a v. and I\ nni ted l>\ < •«: . « . , 1 l'i lVri i .;Dm of

Mr. Prime C (' ians -R, v. Mr. L .-rivli 1' . . . - , \ II

dained to Labor among tlmm — A Fait h fill Man — His Journal Hrainard the Molvgan Indian — His / -al and I .al os - A Poet -E\t taels — l\ i r John. a: <; her Native Convert and iVv s • • . w r — Paid C.iJ.-c. ai ■ > 1 1 1 < • r — His bombs lone and J t. -.-t. j-t :<•:» — In an;., aranco of the Indians nn Long Island g'.*9

CHAPTER XXVI II.

\V dteficld’s Visit to East Ha tori (1 Till)— Revival — Bap t 1 i 5 v 1 • • Peter

U r. d e r h i 1 1 a i 1 ■ i To n d — Q I

Bay — Lilas Hicks — Jamaica — Rev. John llubbaul, First M.m-i .- Urn Bible — Successors—

CONTEXTS,

Bev. A. Kettletns Preaches in Three Lanina ires — Persecuted by the British — Rev. Samuel Se3* bury, the Earliest Episcopal Bishop in the United States— C olony from Jamaica to Elizabeth* town, New Jersey — Rev. Mr. I’oihemus, First Dominie at Flatbush (1655)— Churches Built — Gravesend “Foresinger'' — Erasmus Hall — liev. Mr. Solimus and Van Zuren, 1677, and Successors— New Utrecht — Whit's and loyalists — Collegiate Churches — Gravesend Quakers (1657) — Fox's Visit — Magistrates — Rev. Mr. Schooumaker — New Utrecht (1654) — Church Built — Dominies — General Howe's Landing (Tf)) — Bushwick — First House — French Settlers — Odious Taxes by Governor Nicola — Church Erected — Its Ministers — Brooklyn — First Churches and Dominies — Episcopalians Page 308

CHAPTER XXIX.

New X< therland Embraced a Part of New Jersey — Dutch Plantations at Bergen — 14 Pa von ia” — First Settlers— Tax fora Church— F’irst Members— Old Graveyard — Dominie's •* Voorleser" — Octagonal Church Erected ( 1 >) — Selyns Preaches Here Three Times a Year — Other

Pastors — Rev. Mr. DubuiVs Dc . : 1 1 : — Wampum, the Church Money — Iiow Collected — Regular Pastor Called ( 1750) — Bev. P. 1 >e Wint — II is Salary — Staten Island — Origin of Dutch Church There — Unites with Bergen (1752) — Bev. Mr. Jackson — Governor Franklin Charters the Church — Its Elders and Deacons — Unites with the Hackensack Glassis (1771) — New Church “Sittings’* — Dominie Jackson Second to Whitctield — Long Sermon, and Mr. Schurcman — Old Baptismal l.ccoid ... 325

CHAPTER XXX.

Bergen — Dominie. Cornclison Preaches in Dutch and English — Teaches the Staves to Bead — Successors — Bev. Dr. T: yh.r Still Breaching at Bergen — Last Services in the Old Church — New Edifice Dedicated — “ Van" a Common Prolix to Dutch Names— Hackensack — Bev. P. Taschemaker the Fir^t Dominie • 1086)— Murdered Afterwards by the Indians at Schenectady — His Successors in liaekeii.-ack — Acquacanonck Church Erected — Initials of Founders on the Corner-Stones — Church Organized at Bari tun bv Bev. Mr. Bert holt' — Church Built at Schraalenbergh (1724) — Btv. Guaitherus Dubois — Dominies— “Ccctus and Conl'erentiiu” — Drs. Kuypers and Borncvn, Pastors — tiie llevolution and its Troubles — Church at Hackensack Rebuilt — Subscriptions (171)1) — Still Standing 336

CHAPTER XXXI.

Remarkable Storm (17‘.)5) — The Steeple of the llackcnsack Church Struck by Lightning; its Legend Broken — l)r. Linn's Aide Discourse — Dominic becomes an ‘'Emeritus’’ Minister — Three Sons in the Sacred Otiice — Bev. James V. C. Homey n — New Church Built — Secession — The Leaders — Dr. lb-rro.ynN Son Called to take his Place— Church Enlarged (1S47) and Legend Removed — Eminent Dead in Hackensack Graveyard: General Poor, Dr. Peter Wilson, C< done! Varick, Ac. — Sduadenbeigh — English Neighborhood — Laud Given lor a Church, which was Erected (17G-*»* : Mr. Cornclison the Domirde — Successors — Church Dilliculties — The "True Belbrmcd Church”-- .DccDion of Supreme Court Adverse to Secession — See*, dors Erect New Churches — Bev. Mr. Abed — D. D nr yen, his Death and Monument — Bev. Mr. McFarlanc and P. B. Taylor 846

CHAPTER XXXII.

B formed Dutch Church at Second River (Belleville), the Last of the Five Earliest Churches Erected (172-7) — Mr. Coens, Pastor— Mr. A rent Sel uvh r. a Liberal l iiristian — Isaac Brown, an Episcopalian Clergym tn. Claims his Benefactions — Mr. ! I.mglmort, tin' Dominie — His

Successors — Church incorporated (171)U) and Sclioollmuso Erected— Preaching in Dutch Disconlinu >d — Tornado Demolislies the Steepie — New Church — Bev. Mr. Sink* r — I )omini< —Stephen Van Cortlat 1- His Liberality — New < hurch (Is.VD — John Van Rensselaer’b ! . i Prop* —Colon from B :villo Congiegatioi -Ministerial I ami ■

lies — School! maker, Stryker, and Rome) u 856

CHAPTER XXXIII.

Raid h N s t < Wh le R* gion fr< * i Virginia to Maine ns V irgim New Jersey \ tta< hod

to N, iv V> rk. aie.l by I D • y a I Patent * onvyed »*• I ■ : 1 B 'ik» ley — Two Itun ! :•«•*! .Vu es of 1 1 Granted in every l’ai ... 1 - * ft M I ■ 1 665)

Arrives with Thirl)' English Settlers— F.migi at; In ii New England % l 1 . I. si nd—

Presbyterian Churcl • cd (1666 1 . ‘ i

” Five Propriet* Death of < II d 1 in of Jam

— Q leer. A line Uni! ."i Fast ami West .tors y--lli.di * ' bare 1 1 ism - 1 B • B of ' 'iimem Pravcr to be Bead— Governor Con., ary, a Prolligafc, Deposed — Pers. > ,i>J tiio 1’rcsb) lei : m Miu*

I

CONTENTS.

iBters in Now Jersey — Ministers — 'Rev. J. Dickinson — TIis Published Works — •White-field Preaches in Elizabethtown — Sunil Salaries — Messrs. Kettletas and Caldwell — Rev. Mr. Linn — S) nods — A College at Elizabethtown — Removed to Newark — Rev. Aaron Burr. President — Next to Princeton — Mr. Dickinson’s Death — llis Useful Life — John Sargean. . . . Page SGi

I

CHAPTER XXXIY.

Presbyterian Church, Elizabethtown— Elisha Spencer, D. D., Succeeds Mr. Dickinson — Church Incorporated — Governor Belcher Joins this Congregation — Rev. Mr. Kettletas Dili via ted in Three Languages — Rev. James Caldwell, a Huguenot — Ills Family — Becomes a t haplain —

Obnoxious to the ‘•Tories’’ — liis Parsonage and Church Burned (17S1) — His Wife Murdered, and his Tragical Death — Eminent Men in Ids Congregation — Ogden. Boudinot, Livingston, and Dayton— Sketch of Mr. Boudinot — New Church' Built in 17:6— Notice of Mr. Livingston, a Friend of General Hamilton— Rev. W. Linn Installed (ITSG) 871

CHAPTER XXXY.

Rev. David Austin Succeeds Mr. Linn, and has a Strange History — Declares the Coming of Christ (1796)— Great Excitement — Takes the Vow of a Nazarite — Removes to New Haven, and Finally was Relieved of his Fanaticism — Successors — Drs. Koilock, McDowell, and Murray— Second Pic&l/yteriati Church., and. Methodist Episcopal — Rev. Thomas Morrell.... 879

CHAPTER XXXYI.

Charles II. Incorporates the Society to Preach the Gospel among the Natives of America (1661)

— Archbishop Tcnison — William Ilf. Incorporates Another, and of Great Service to the Episcopal Church — Colonel Morris — His Report on State of Religion in New Jersey — Keith and Talbot’s Missionary Tour — John Brook, First Episcopal Clergyman in Elizabethtown —

His Reports— St. John’s Built (1700) — His Labors— Lord Corn'mny Unites the New Jersey and New York Provinces — Imprisons the Rev. Mr. Moon — Mr. Brook, Fearing the Same Treatment, Sails for England— Cornbury ll< moved and Imprisoned, and after becomes a Peer — Mr. Vaughan the next Missionary — Piseataqua — The. Earliest Baptist Settlement (1663), and their First Preacher, Hugh Dunn — Successors — Church 'it Scotch Plains — Episcopalians Again — Mr. Vaughan Marries a Fortune — Preaches in Elizabeth Forty Years — Successors —

Rev. Mr. Chandler, etc., etc., down to 1853 383

CHAPTER XXXYII.

Extent of New Nethorlaml — Its Settlers — Palatines at Kingston (1660) — Beautiful Tradition —

“Ti i-Cors” — French Bible — Religions Liberty — Chnreii Organized at New I’altz. by Rev. P.

Daille (16:3) — The “Walloon Protestant Church’' — Ui> Mission — French the common Language— The “ Duzine’’ — Louise Duboise. Elder, and Hugh Freer, Deacon — Dai lie's Grave recently Discovered — Inscription — His Will — Eonrepos his Successor at New P: itz (1C9G) —

Dutch Language Introduced — Now Church — Curious Document 895

CHAPTER XXXVIir.

New PMtz, continued — Reformed Dutch Church — Dominie Van Driesscn — The Ccetus and Conferentis' — Rev. M. Freyenmoet jointly etiihd by Roe!, ester, Marblctown, 8hsw angunk, and New 1 ait/. — Mr. Goetschins Succeeded him — A Teacher of rheology— Ilia Younger Brother, an M. D., takes Ins place, preaching in German and Dutch— Calk d the Do.-ror Dominie”— Cures a Maniac by Music— Division in the Church f 1767)— Dominies— Old Church at New Puitz taken down and new one erected— Rev. S. Gnet-ehius tlm Minister (1775) — Unites the two Congregations— Indian Iiieursions— New Pelt/, i se:q . — The Pastor's Last Sermon — His successors, Rev. W. R. Bogardus, Van Olinda, and Vamlorvoort 101

CHAPTER XXX IX.

First Church in Albany. 10-1 2 — Pulpit Imported — Enlarged— Second and Third ( liurches — ,

Re v. J. Meg lensis the Earl t 1 1 • - l) , I s. M.

Nirmeiihuyscn end N. \ an Rensselaer — Latter Suspected of !• mg a 1’ p.-t- \ t : d, i ut

Re liaised by tl Governor — Rev. Mr. Dellitts Arrives, 10S1 — Bapt mal Ki ter Pn r\ 1

Sell I i o and T. Fivluigi u\- ., 1 Tib) — K. W, - erlo — J. Basset — New Church Built-- Povs. A.

B. Johnson, J. W o d. I -no — i i r- • settler in o\ -It- M - .. e. 1 ' .'•* — Rev.

Mr. Tassomaker Kihni — Ik vs. I'. Bi >wn, P>. Fr< i man. I!. 1 i • '. \ an - u.t \ o.u-t. B.

Coomer, J. 1). R J. If. Mry 1 , : , J. Var ' I

i It-ifeh— sr. lloi ’go'.. Pa -t F;,i-, \ 1 7'. .1. Dm. ear, Ikv-T Ik v. Mr. I';> and Anri c ws, ntid Roger - ete. — Captain \\ ebb in M P 1

Hi Success — White Held — Church Built— Concluding Remui s i

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EARLIEST CHURCHES IN NEW YORK.

CHAPTER I.

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THE COLLEGIATE REFORMED DUTCH CHURCH OF NEW YORK TIIE

EARLIEST FORMED IN NORTH AMERICA MOTLEY’S “ RISE OF THE

DUTCH REPUBLIC” EMIGRANTS SENT TO AMERICA BY THE WEST

INDIA COMPANY DIRECTOR MINUIT’s ARRIVAL, 1G20 THE

ZIEKENTROOSTER REV. JONAS MICIIAELIUS, TIIE FIRST MINISTER

DOMINIE BOGARDES FIRST CHURCH — THE SECOND. ST. NICHOLAS,

HOW BUILT EARLIEST MINISTERS GARDEN STREET CHURCH

BUILT DOMINIE DUBOIS MIDDLE AND NORTH DUTCH BUILT

THEIR MINISTERS.

The Collegiate Reformed Butch Church of IS Tew York was the first formed in North America, dating its origin from the earliest settlement on Manhattan Island. Its name is derived from historical associations. The term Protestant, in the sixteenth century, was applied to the Reformers and all who denied the authority of the Pope and rejected the unscriptural doctrines of the Romish Church.. The term itself arose in Id 29, when six princes of the German Empire solemnly protested against the decrees of the Diet of Spin s, and it has ever since keen the distinctive name, universally used, as applied to the blessed Reformation. Early in (Ik* Reformation a difference happened among the Protestants on some points, and particularly with respect to the real pres-