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A DISCOURSE ;

DELIVERED AT THE CELEBRATION OF THE

TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY

OF THE

flrformei) f rot. iiitclj C|iirrl] of ierpit,

IN KEW JERSEY,

ON SABBATH M0R]\1NG, DECEMBER 2nd, A.D. 1860,

Br BENJAMIN C.TAYLOR, D.D., Pastor.

"^"^Itli a mufittil 0f tlw

PUBLISHED BY REQUEST OF CONSISTORY.

1861.

HOSFORD & KETCHAM,

STATIONERS AND PRINTKRS,

57 and 59 William St., N. Y.

THE TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY

OF THE

REF. PEOT. DUTCH CHURCH AT BERGEN, N. J.

This Church, having been extensively repaired and ele-
gantly refitted, and for about two months closed, was
reopened for public worship on Sabbath, the 2d day of
December, A.D., 1860. On this occasion the congregation
celebrated their Two Hundredth Anniversary. The large
edifice, which can comfortably seat eleven hundred persons,
was filled with worshipers. The Morning Exercises were
opened with a Voluntary on the organ, followed by an
appropriate Anthem. The Pastor of the Church then in-
voked the presence of the Master of the house, and the
Scriptures were read by the Rev. R. D. Van Kleeck, of
Jersey City. The assembly joined in singing a Hymn
specially adapted and prepared for the occasion. The Ser-
mon was delivered by the Pastor.

After the singing of a Hymn by the Sabbath school of
the Church, numbering over two hundred and sixty chil-
dren, the Rev. Thomas De Witt, D. D., addressed the large
assembly, making most happy allusions to the venerable
men who for nearly the whole of the first century of the
existence of this Church, supplied her with the ordinances
of God's house. He then paid most deserved and beautiful
tributes to the memory of the two deceased Pastors of the
Church, and pointed the assembly to some of the marked
features of her history ; after which the Doxology was
sung, and the people were dismissed vv^ith the Benediction.

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4 INTRODUCTION.

The exercises were somewhat protracted, but there was no
flagging in the attention of the hearers, the interest of the
occasion being admirably sustained to the close.

In the Evening the house was again filled with attentive
and devout worshipers.

The Invocation of God's presence, by the Pastor, was fol-
lowed by the reading of the Scriptures by Rev. R. B. Camp-
field. The Sermon was delivered by Rev. Gustavus
Abeel, D. D., of Nev/ark, founded on Psalm 26 : 8, "Lord,
I have loved the habitation of thy house and the place
where thine honor dwelleth." It was a chaste and appro-
priate production, doing credit to the head and heart of the
preacher.

Then followed a soul-stirring Address from the Rev. Paul
D. Van Cleef, of Jersey City, Pastor of the Church of Van
Vorst, an off-shoot from this ancient Church. This was a
most fitting close to the exercises of the day — a day not
soon to be forgotten by the people of Bergen and its
vicinity.

There were present on that occasion, and joyfully sharing
in the Services, a grand-daughter of the first pastor, and a
son and grand-son of the second ; also representatives of the
Collegiate Church in New York, Dr. De Witt being one of
the successors of the pastors of that Church, who constantly
watched over the Church of Bergen for a century ; and also
representatives of the many Churches constituted in whole
or in part of members from this venerable Christian Church.
Some of these delegations were large, and the whole scene
presented was that of a loving mother greeting and being
greeted by her children and her children's children, while
all united in lofty thanksgivings to him who sits forever
King upon his holy hill of Zion.

SERMON

Psalm SO: 8-11.

" Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt : thou hast cast out

THE heathen, and PLxO'TED IT. ThOU PREPAREDST ROOM BEFORE IT,
AND DIDST CAUSE IT TO TAKE DEEP BOOT, AND IT FILLED THE LAND.
The HILLS WERE COVERED WITH THE SHADOW OF IT, AND THE BOUGHS
THEREOF WERE LIKE THE GOODLY CEDARS, ShE SENT OUT HER BOUGHS
UNTO THE SEA, AND HER BRANCHES UNTO THE RIVER."

The pious Asapli penned this Psahn on some occa-
son of the distress of the Israel of God. In it he
seeks Divine favor, craving God's presence, while
he complains of the rebukes they were receiving,
and institutes a comparison between the Church of
God and a vine, and a vineyard which had flour-
ished and had seen and felt times of calamity.

The root of this vine is Christ. The branches
are God's believing people, and when gathered into a
Church state are appropriately represented by the
vine and its branches.

p SERMON.

This figure as happily sets forth an individual
Church as the whole body of the visible Church of
God on earth.

Our illustration of the subject shall be drawn from
this Christian Church, whose Two Hundredth Anni-
versary we now celebrate.

She bears the name of "The Eeformed Protestant
Dutch Church of Bergen, in 'New Jersey." They
who constituted it were descended from those who
fearlessly entered their Protest^ in the sixteenth cen-
tury, against Papal rule and the unscriptural tenets
and practices of the Church of Pome ; and the Re-
formed Protestant Dutch, because we are of those
who differed from some early Protestants, and from
Luther, on some points especially regarding the
bodily presence of Christ in the Holy Supper. We
are the Peformed Protestant Dutch Church, being
in the lineal descent from that branch of the Church
of the Peformation organized in Holland.

The symbols of her doctrinal faith and polity are
primarily from the action of those who met at Ant-
werp, in 1563, and adopted a system of principles
and rules which laid the foundation, and in a great
measure formed the full texture of church govern-
ment and order adopted by subsequent Synods.

After the early settlement of New York, by Hol-
.anders, we find that in 1618 a settlement was made
on this western shore of the Hudson or ISTorth river.
It w^as, however, a mere trading place with the In-
dians, and a few plantations were cultivated.

These were abandoned about the close of 1651,
and not re-peopled until the latter part of 1660 and

SERMON. T

early in 1661. Preparatory to this reoccupancy a
purchase was made, in 1658, of a tract of land long
known as ^'' Bergen^'' conveyed by the Indians to
the Lord Director General and Council of ISTew
I^Tetherlands ; and in 1661 it was by the same Direc-
tor General and Council, deeded to the then inhabi-
tants of the village of Bergen ; thus showing that in
1660 and 1661 the re-peopling of the place occurred.
Subsequent documents show that "from the early
settlement of the country" this Church existed. It
was coeval with the reoccupation of the soil ; and
one of the certificates of character and church mem-
bership bears the date of JSTov. 2Tth, 1660.

A distinguished civil historian mentions the exist-
ence of a log church in this place in 1661, the veiy
year in which the inhabitants secured their title to
the lands on which they had located.

Two centuries having rolled away since the or-
ganization of this Church, we shall take a very suc-
cinct retrospect, and hope to derive instruction of
large import from some prominent facts in her his-
tory. She is " a vine which God brought here, and
cast out the heathen and planted it. He prepared
room before it and did cause it to take deej) root."

It is not intended on this occasion to detail the
events of her history, as this has been more fully
done in another form,* but to endeavor to derive
profit from certain principles which she has main-
tained, and which are developed in her church life.

* See Annals of Classis of Bergen.

8 SERMON.

"We shall call attention to some instructions de-
rived from her history.

By it we are tanght to love and maintain the doc-
trines of grace revealed in the Scriptures.

These we recognise in our Confession of Faith,
the Canons of the Synod of Dordrecht, the Heidel-
berg Catechism, and the Liturgy of the Church.
They embrace that system of faith which the Re-
formers valued, and the ablest divines of the centu-
ries subsequent to the Reformation accounted the
very best inheritance they could transmit to their
children's children, because they believed it to be
*' the truth as it is in Jesus."

The pious ancestors of this congregation brought
with them from Holland their Bibles, the articles of
their holy faith, and the evidences of their moral
and religious position. In the cultivation of piety
they sought instruction only from those who were
competent, able ministers of the ISTew Testament.
In their settlement here, in a strange land, and
using only the language of their mother countr}^,
stated pulpit ministrations could not be had. But
their covenant God must be worshiped, and we,
at this remote period, looking back, see them felling
the forest and clearing a beautiful knoll on which to
rear a rude structure for the service of God. Think
of the first Sabbath's worship on the soil of this
goodly State : the congregation small, and probably
on that occasion without even an ambassador for
Christ to speak unto them the words of life. There
they approached the mercy seat in the use of the
Liturgy of the Church, as their Clerk, known as

SERMON.

9

"<x A^Z^j)" in the sanctuary, conducted their devo-
tional exercises ; reading God's commandments, the
scripture lesson for the day, and some choice dis-
course from the pen of some faithful herald of the
Cross.

Thus beginning, they continued from Sabbath to
Sabbath, receiving only occasional ministrations
from the living teacher, and the administration of
God's ordinances but seldom; yet cheering, and
comforting, and establishing them in their most holy
faith.

Then a small advance is made, as stated dispen-
sations of the Word and ordinances were covenanted
for— but only for thrice in a year. In the long lapse
of ninety years or more, we find them still adhering
to this precious faith once delivered to the saints, and
waiting for far more of its power and joy.

In the Lord's own time the herald of the Gospel
greets them, and the oral testimony of Christ's am-
bassadors is, almost in unbroken service, sustained
down to this sacred hour in which we celebrate their
abiding, unfaltering faith as a Church for two hun-
dred years.

They who watched over them for nearly a century
were a nolle land. Henry Selyns, John and Samuel
Megapolensis, (father and son), Wilhelmus Yan
Nieuwenhuysen, Caspaiius Yan Zeuren, and Gual-
therus Du Bois, the last of whom thus ministered to
them for fifty years, and received his death stroke
while in the act of preparation for one more service
here. No one of them failed in their pastoral charges
to contend earnestly for the faith, holding fast the
form of sound words.

10 SEKMON.

However amazing the fact of a Church living and
thriving without a pastor for nearly a century, our
first thoughts of it are chastened and turned from
incredulity to admiration and gratitude for the sove-
reign grace of God in perpetuating and so blessing
this Church, that during that period, when popula-
tion was sparse, three hundred and eighty indi-
viduals were admitted to holy communion.

Think of the untiring watchfulness maintained for
the transmission of the faith of God's elect to their
posterity, as they provided for themselves and their
successors, in a few years after their first rude struc-
ture was reared, their substantial stone church in
1680.

This done, they laid b}^ in store for a future minis-
tr}^, and though many of them died without the sight,
they knew the God of Zion lived and w^ould give
them a minister for the house of their God.

What thougli a first attempt proved vain, by a
shameful im]30sture of one v/ho had but a pretender's
claim to the gospel ministry ? The deception taught
them caution, and again they move in the work.
They choose a godly youth. He must yet be taught
the sound system of theological truth. They send
him away across the ocean to be fitted for his work.
Four years and more roll round, and William Jack-
son is greeted as an ordained, well instructed ser-
vant of God.

They heard his vv'ords with gladness. God's am-
bassador proved an able and acceptable defender of
the faith for thirty-two years ; when, having led
them in w^ays of righteousness, disease preys upon

SERMON. 11

him, and he is bowed down and broken in body and
mind, and can no more give utterance to the truths
of the Gospel.

Then followed the earnest, faithful instructions,
for thirty-five years, of John CorneUson^ well in-
structed and qualified for his work. Ever watchful
for the truth and its influence, and ready, when as-
sailed by infidelity or error, to urge it with whole-
some, well established argument, so that Christ's
Gospel should be held forth in its purity. He sealed
his testimony with his latest breath, in the words,
" Here, Lord, am I, a poor, helpless sinner, waiting
for thee ; in full faith founded on thee as the eternal
God."

And may not I, who have pleaded here for Jesus
for nearly thirty-three years, be permitted at least to
say, I have taught you in the fear of God, and en-
deavored to preach to you Jesus Christ and him cru-
cified? Blessed Master! forgive the imperfection of
these ministrations.

Two hundred years of gospel worship ! One hun-
dred years of gospel ministrations by only three
successive pastors; and the Church holding on to
the wholesome doctrines of our Calvinistic faith, un-
wavering, and we trust with holy profit. Let us
stand fast herein evei'more. Be firm and contend
earnestly, not w4th friends only, but against foes
within or without, seen or unseen.

The history of this Church teaches us to regard
the order and government of God's house, both as
to worship and discipline.

Call to mind again, her long continued depend-

12 SEKMON.

ence on mere casual and infrequent pulpit services ;
the lack of the kind attentions of the minister of
Christ at the bed of sickness and death ; the mul-
titude of those whose closing scenes of life were
cheered by no such consolations ; yet, guided by the
truth of God's Word, cherishing ever the worship
and order of his house.

Read it in their faithful abiding by the law of
that house. How orderly their arrangements for
stated worship and for communion service, (always
on Monday^ because the servant of the Lord could
not be spared from his own pulpit on the Sabbath).
"What though the Sabbath passed? A service of
holy communion could, and did, command their
presence from far and near. What though, when
long and many years had rolled away under a scanty
dispensation of God's word, their first attempt was
rendered null and void by fearful imposture ? How
orderly their demeanor ! No covenant could be
enforced until the ecclesiastical body to which the
Church belonged had given her approval; and
when the imposition w^as attested, how quiet was
their submission, and how firmly they bade the
man depart out of their coasts !

See the same in patient waiting for the holy ordi-
nation, by the Classis of Amsterdam, of the youthful
Jackson, and the commission for his installation.
Then their joy abounded by Christ.

This vine dresser cultivated the vineyard of which
he was made the keeper. It had lived and borne
some fruit ; but it was comparatively as the fruit of
an uncultivated vine. He watched it, and pruned

SEEM ON". 13

it, and watered it, as one sent of God. In liis early
ministry he saw the clusters of fruit, and in 1759,
just when closing the first hundred years of its exist-
ence, a beautiful vintage is gathered. Twenty souls,
at one time, tell of the hope that maketli not
ashamed. The heathen had been cast out, the vine
had taken deep root, God had prepared room for it,
and beauty covered it.

Let us change the figure. You may have heard
it said of the century plant, " that day unto day it
uttereth speech, night unto night it showeth know-
ledge."

For years, consecutively, its awkward forms ex-
cite curiosity, and when fathers, and children, and
children's children, have patiently waited, it fulfills
the continued dark prophecies concerning it, and
develops the beauties so long concealed within it,
proclaiming the grace and power of him " who
maketh every thing beautiful in its season."

When, moreover, the stirring scenes of the Revo-
lution in this land, struggling for liberty, were pass-
ing, and trials often and varied were experienced,
the inhabitants compelled to flee for safety, and the
flock scattered, even then the ofiicers of this and
other Churches of the Classis of Hackensack made
vigorous efl'orts to ascertain the wants, spiritual and
temporal, of the dispersed families ; and their reports
of these afllictions were transmitted to the higher
judicatures for counsel, prayers and relief.

When emerging from the fierce conflicts in the
Churches, respecting their ecclesiastical government,
as separation from the mother Church in Holland

14: SERMON.

was urged for convenience and profit, this Cliurcli
was found by her representatives in the Convention,
in 1YT2, which framed the Constitution of the Church
which was to govern them in this land.

Then form and consistency were given them, in
the proper estabhshment of the judicatures which, in
happy order, are maintaining the peace and urging
the prosperity of our Reformed Zion.

Note the order and appropriate action of this
Church when her first pastor experienced the stroke
from the hand of the all wise God, and was pros-
trated by disease. With calm composure they await
the hour when his retirement should be efi'ected
and a reasonable provision be made for his comfort.
On this sacred spot, where now we worship, he lived,
and loved, and prayed, for his people ; and here,
twenty-four years after his inability to officiate at
God's altar, he yielded up the ghost and went to his
reward, gathered to his fathers in a good old age,
having passed liis four score years. JSTow, within
these walls his memorial tablet is placed by the
hands of children and children's children, of those to
whom he spake the words of eternal life.

Nor do we find any thing but increasing illustra-
tion of the maintenance of order and conformity to
well digested rules of government under the blessed
pastorate of the successor of Mr, Jackson, (the Rev.
John Cornelison), who rigidly sought ever to main-
tain the law of God's house. For eiglit years he
was in the double charge of this congregation and
that of English Neighborhood, and subsequently
only here until his death. The whole record of his

SEEM ON. 15

ministry is that of the law of the house, of perseve-
rance in duty, of the upholding a pastor's hands and
encouraging his heart, while endeavoring to mete
out righteousness always, yet tenderly but firmly
when disci^^line was demanded.

We humbly trust the enlarged calls to duty under
the present pastorate, of nearly thirty- three years'
duration, v/ill show that with the same hallowed
purpose, steadfastness has been maintained and Zion
strengthened. Though some diversities of sentiment
have from time to time arisen, and now and then a
few have withdrawn, yet never has this Church
known an open schism. How replete with instruc-
tion to us all to maintain, with love and firmness,
the order of God's house.

With what beauty does this rise to view when we
look to the obligations of the Church of God to en-
large the place of her tent, to stretch forth the cur-
tain of her habitation, to break forth on the right
hand and on the left, and to rejoice in her seed in-
heriting the Gentiles ; to arise, shine, because her
light is come and the glory of the Lord has risen
iiopn her?

Bearing witness nnto this are the Churches which
are the branches, and the offshoots again from the
branches. Such are Bergen l!^eck, Bergen Point,
Jersey City, and Yan Yoorst, Hoboken, and the
First Presbyterian Church in this place, and, in part,
Keyport, in Monmouth county, and Pocky Hill, in
Somerset county. And yet the original vine is
vigorous, and, we trust, in decorous manner holding
on her way, strengthened and strengthening others,

16 SERMON.

and to-day celebrating her two liiindredtli anniver-
sary, with her sons and daughters joyous, as they
enter this honse of God, repaired, and appropriately
and tastefully decorated, saying : " How amiable are
thy tabernacles, oh Lord of Hosts," and, in the re-
membrance of the past, " Our fathers, where are
they? and the prophets, do they live forever?"

The history of this Church teaches us the value of
the institutions of learning and religion connected
with this reformed branch of the Church of Christ.
Ever prizing an able ministry, she has recognized
her obligations to see that it is maintained. Her
demand of the youth of her choice as her future
pastor, to go far hence and obtain and use the best
facilities furnished in the mother country, for ac-
quiring mental and holy furniture for his usefulness
in the service of Christ's Church, to which he looked
forward ; her honorable provision for aiding him
therein ; her patient waiting for him (as written in
his call), "Praying God to take his heart into His
fear, and as far as the Lord j)lease, to take him
safely over the wild element and return him safely;"
and this, " their deed in true faith," tells loudly of
their lofty estimate of an able ministry in Christ's
Gospel. When they saw, in after years, his influ-
ence, no regrets could be expressed for what they
had done. When in 1771-72 he, -with an honored
elder, sat in the Convention to which we have re-
ferred, and by their votes confirmed the Articles of
Union and subscribed them with their own hands,
one of which covenanted for the establishment of a
Theological Professorship ; when we trace the efforts,

SERMON. 17

at first tardy aucl very limited, but onward, until tlie
Heformed Dutch Church appoints the First Theolo-
gical Professor in these United States, and subse-
quently j)i'6P^i'ii^g t<^ givG her Theological Seminary
a local habitation, the offer of the Academy in Ber-
gen, for the Theological Hall, is made, and though
declined, yet in that Academy provision for the
elementary preparation of young men for the ser-
vices of the sanctuary was made, and her own
Theological Seminary shared her benefactions, as
on a single Sabbath in 1822, she plighted her faith
for one thousand dollars, and redeemed the pledge ;
as one of her sons subsequently bequeathed it two
thousand dollars, and even recently some of you
now present have strengthened her College with
your tuition scholarships and other valuable gifts ;
as for years her missions have shared your bounty
in the domestic and foreign fields, and we have wit-
nessed the progress of our Churches at home and
abroad, springing up, and budding, and blossoming,
as the rose, we are glad and praise God, that of her
it may be said : " She sent out her boughs unto the
sea and her branches unto the river." Thus we
learn to prize the institutions founded by her fathers,
and charge tlie present generation to teach these
things to their children, that they again may rehearse
them to the generations following, ever holding fast
that which is good.

We are taught the value of Pastoral Ministrations.
How infinite the wisdom and love of God, " in that
he hath given to some apostles, to some prophets, to
some evangelists, and to some pastors and teachers,"
for the edifying of the body of Christ.

18 SERMON.

While tills Cliiircli owes love and gratitude to
those holy men, who, in succession, for nearly a cen-
tury took the oversight of her and counseled her,
and guided her ecclesiastical affairs, so that in peril-
ous times she lived and made progress, what does
she owe to those who, as their pastors, have s]3oken
unto her sons and daughters, authoritatively, yet
lovingly, the counsels of God's w^ord, in Christ's
name? Her church life is identified, for a century
just closed, with the lives of her pastors.

Full one hundred years of pastoral labor, bestowed
by only three of the servants of Christ in the minis-
try of reconciliation ; all of whom were instructed in
the Theological institutions of the Church. Under
each ministration, the truth as it is in Jesus has been
owned of God, to the salvation of sinners, the edifi-
cation of saints and the prosperity of Zion.

What a company it would be, if all who under
the teachings of your pastors have confessed Christ
before men in solemn covenant, could come together
in one place and be seen by us ! How would they
recount God's mercies, even the sure mercies of
David and his seed for a perpetual generation!
What a shout of thanksgiving would go up to
heaven from pastors and people, from parents and
children, and children's children ! What joy w^ould
be evinced as they would hail Christ's ambassadors
as instruments in God's hands of their conversion,
their consolation in sorrow and their prospect of
glory ! How many also have at these pastors' hands
received the consecrated waters of holy baptism, the
seal of the Abrahamic and Christian covenant!

SERMON. 19

How miicli might be written, did we but know the
history and the unpublished consciousness of the
thousands of quick and dead who have heard from
them the messages of salvation !

When in walking up and down among you as
Christ's ambassador, I reflect on a single fact, that
already there are several families for whose dead,
through four successive generations^ .1 have min-
istered the funeral rites, and that my predecessors
did the same, a number of generations rise to view
to whom the truths of Christ's Gospel have thus
been^l^claimed ; and all these have been taught to
fear God, hate sin, love holiness, and through faith
in Christ to walk in the way to heaven.

Nor can we forget the healthful, moral influence
of the teachings of Divine truth upon the commu-
nity at large. Even when iniquity may have
abounded, and the love of many waxed cold, she
has stood a witness for truth and holiness; God's
witness for ages to the inhabitants of this county ;
but now surrounded in the territory she originally
occupied by more than fifty Christian Churches, all
organized within the last thirty-three years.

Has it been in vain that for the use of this people,
in the generations past, they reared the humble log
sanctuary, then, successively, their two substantial
churches, and that the present generation have, in
erecting this house, imitated the example of their
fathers ? If God has promised to glorify the house
of his glory, to take possession of it, to dwell in it,
to record his name there, shall we not value the
ministrations of his servants, sent on his mission, to

20 S E E M O N .

treat with men respecting the salvation of their
souls ? Then, ever in love, " remember them who
have spoken unto yon the word of God."

This Chnrch, having existed under the three na-
tional Governments of Holland, Great Britain and
the United States ; having been subordinate to three
Classes (or Presbyteries), viz : that of Amsterdam,
for one hundred and twelve years ; of Hackensack,
for twenty-eight years ; and that of Bergen, under
whose jurisdiction she now is, for sixty years ; hav-
ing had only three pastors, each serving her over
thirty years ; having owned three parsonages and
three sacred burial places for the dead ; having un-
der each of her pastors been enriched by outpour-
ings of the Spirit of God ; having sent forth her
numerous branches, fostered her schools and the
College and Theological Seminary of our Church ;
here, to-day, having with her, enjoying her second
century celebration, that happy juvenile band of
Sabbath school scholars, and the immediate lineal
descendants of her three pastors, and of those who
have sat under their holy ministrations, and those
who now succeed them as worshi23ing here — this
Church, consecrated with rich and ancient memories
gathers together the voices of the past, and echoes
them as the present voice of God to his j^eople.

This Church, whose alms deeds began more than a
century before this Bepublic had a name among
the nations of the earth, on this goodly liill, as we
have reason to believe, struck the first notes of
praise to the God of our salvation, and issued the

S E K M O N . 21

first sound of the trumpet of the Gospel ever uttered
on the soil of New Jersey.

In her history century has spoken to century,
generation has shown knowledge to generation, God
has been her God in covenant, and Christ Jesus her
light and her glory, and she stands unharmed amid
the heavings and overthrows of nations.

Let these holy reminiscences be uttered from these
heights of Zion until the very stones of this edifice
(some of which bear the initials of those who laid
them, as their memorial in the former sanctuaries,
and which we have relaid in this house of God),
shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the
timber shall answer them.

These pews and this pulpit shall proclaim the
glory of him whose promise is ever unto his people
and their offspring. Yea and Amen.

" For thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways
and ask for the old paths, where is the good way,
and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your
souls."

"Two hundred years! two hundred years!
How much of human power and pride,
What glorious hopes, what gloomy fears
Have sunk beneath their noiseless tide!

The red man at his horrid rite,

Seen by the stars at night's cold noon,

His bark canoe, its track of light

Left on the wave beneath the moon ;

22 SERMON.

His dance, his yells, his council fire.
The altar where his victim lay,

His death song and his funeral pyre.
That still strong tide hath borne away;

And that pale pilgrim band is gone.
That on this shore, with trembling trod,

Ready to faint, yet bearing on
The ark of freedom and of God.

And war that since o'er ocean came.

And thundered loud from this high hill.

And wrapped its foot in sheets of flame
To blast that ark — its storm is still.

Chief sachem, sage, bard, heroes, seers.
That live in story and in song.

Time for the last two hundred years

Has raised; and shown and swept along.

'Tis like a dream when one awakes,
This vision of the scenes of old;

'Tis like the moon, when morning breaks,
'Tis like a tale, round watch fires told.

Then what are we? Then what are we?

Yes, when two hundred years have rolled
O'er our green graves; our names shall be

A morning dream — a tale that's told.

God of our fathers, in whose sight
The thousand years that sweep away

Man, and the traces of his might,
Are but the break and close of day.

SEEM ON. 23

Grant us that love of truth sublime,

That love of holiness and thee,
That makes thy children, in all time

To share thine own eternity." — Pierrepont.

" The Lord our God be with us, as he was with
our fathers ; let him not leave us nor forsake us."
Amen and Amen.

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OF

BERGSH, NKW JERSEY.

fttblislieir Iia ©rhr af t\t Cffnsistffrg,

CHURCH OFFICERS.

BENJAMIN C. TAYLOR, D.D,

Installed A.D., 1828.

JOHN E. ROMAINE
HENRY FITCH
JACOB VAN WINKLE, Junior
JACOB VAN HORNE
CORNELIUS C. VAN REYPEN
GARRET YREELAND

HENRY LINDSLEY
LEWIS A. BRIGHAM
GARRET BUSH
JACOB VAN WAGENEN
JACOB A. ZABRISKIE
HARRISON PRICE

CORNELIUS C. VAN REYPEN
HENRY LINDSLEY

WILLIAM SPIER R. C. LOESCH

FREDERICK HONECK

HENRY LINDSLEY
GARRET SIP

STATED SEEYICES

Public "Worship is held every Sabbatli Morning at
half-past ten o'clock, and Evening at seven o'clock.

Weekly Service in the Lecture Room, Wednesday Even-
ing at half-past seven o'clock.

Tuesday Evening, Prayer Meeting at private houses.

The Sabbath school meets on Sabbath at nine a. m.
(Communion Sabbaths excepted).

The Sacrament of the Lord's Supper is administered
on the fourth Lord's Day in March, June and September,
and the third Lord's Day of December.

The Preparatory Service is held on the Saturday before
Communion.

The Pastor and Elders meet to receive members, either
by profession of faith or by certificate from other Churches,
on the Saturday preceding Communion at half-past one p. m.,
and at such other times as they may appoint.

Persons about to make a profession of their faith are in-
vited to attend to the following, which refers to the " Com-
pendium of the Christian Religion," found in our Hymn
Books, immediately after the Heidelberg Catechism :

80 MANUAL.

" When tliose who are inclined to become members in full
Communion of the Church, and to approach the Holy Sup-
per of the Lord, thoroughly know and confess these funda-
mental truths, they are then to be asked whether they have
any doubt in any point concerning the doctrine, to the end
that they may be satisfied ; and in case any of them should
answer in the affirmative, endeavors must be used to con-
vince them from the Scriptures ; and if satisfied, they must
be asked whether they have experienced the power of the
truth in their hearts, and are willing and desirous to be
saved by Jesus Christ from their sins ; and whether they
propose, by the grace of God, to persevere in this doctrine,
to forsake the v/orld, and to lead a new and Christian life.
Lastly, they are to be asked, whether they will submit them-
selves to the Christian discipline ; which being done, they
are to be exhorted to peace, love and concord with all men,
and to reconciliation, if there is any variance subsisting be-
tween them and their neighbors."

The Baptism of Adults who have never been baptized,
takes place on the day of the services preparatory to Com-
munion.

The Baptism of Infants will be performed at any public
service of the Church. Seasonable notice must be given to
the Pastor, accompanied by the names of parents and child,
and the date of its birth, for entry upon the Baptismal
Register.

Particular attention is requested to the following, from
the Constitution of the Reformed Dutch Church :

" The Sacrament of Baptism shall always be administered

MANUAL. 31

in tlie Cliurch, or some otlier place of public worship, and
the form adopted for Baptism hitherto in use, shall in every
case be retained. In cases, however, of the sickness of the
parents, and especially of the infant, it is lawful to admin-
ister this sacrament in private. But no private baptism
shall be administered without the presence of at least one
Elder, who shall accompany the Minister for that purpose;
and the same form and solemnity shall be always used as in
public Baptism." (Chapter III., Article 1, Section 1).

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THE CONSISTORY.

The Constitution provides that " The Elders and Deacons,
together Avith the Minister or Ministers, if any, shall form a
Consistory. (Chapter IL, Article 2, Section 1).

Section 2. *' To the Elders^ together with the Ministers
of the Word, is committed the spiritual government of the
Church, while to the Deacons belong the obtaining charita-
ble assistance, and the distribution of the same, in the most
effectual manner for the relief and comfort of the poor.

When joined together in one Board, the Elders and
Deacons have all an equal voice in whatever relates to the
temporalities of the Church, to the calling of a minister, or
the choice of their own successors ; in all of which they are
considered as the general and joint representatives of the
people ; but in admitting members to full communion, in
exercising discipline upon those who have erred from the
faith, or offended in morals, and in choosing delegates to the
Classis, the Elders with the Ministers have alone a voice."

Sections. "The particular spiritual government of the
congregation is committed to the Ministers and Elders. It
is, therefore, their duty at all times to be vigilant, to pre-
serve discipline and to promote the peace and the spiritual
interest of the congregation. Particularly before the celebra-
tion of the Lord's Supper, a faithful and solemn inquiry is to
be m.ade by the President, whether, to the knowledge of

MANUAL. 33

those present, any member in full communion has departed
from the faith, or in walk or conversation behaved unwor-
thy the Christian profession ; that such as are guilty may
be properly rebuked, admonished, or suspended from the
privilege of approaching the Lord's Table, and all offences
may be removed out of the Church of Christ."

The Annual Election for Elders and Deacons takes place
on Easter Monday, immediately after public service, at
which all male communicants are entitled to vote.

The Great Consistory is an advisory body, composed
of all those who have been Elders or Deacons, whose advice
may be sought by the Consistory on any matters of peculiar
importance, such as the calling of ministers, building of
churches, etc. (Chapter II., Article 2, Section 16).

34: MANUAL.

COLLECTIONS.

Contributions for Religious and Benevolent Objects, in-
cluding the different Boards of the Reformed Dutch Church,
and such other societies as the Consistory may choose.

The apostolic rule of systematic benevolence, 1 Cor. 16 :
2, should be observed : " Upon the first day of the week, let
every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered
him."

CONTRIBUTIONS FOR RELIGIOUS AND BENEVOLENT OBJECTS.

First Sabbath in every month, for the Board of Foreign
Missions of the Reformed Dutch Church.

Third Sabbath in March, June, September and December,
for the Board of Domestic Misssions of the Reformed Dutch
Church.

Third Sabbath in August, for the Board of Education of
the Reformed Dutch Church.

Third Sabbath in April, for the American Tract Society.

Third Sabbath in October, for the Hudson County Bible
Society.

Third Sabbath in May and December, for the Sabbath
School of this Church.

Third Sabbath in November, for the American and
Foreign Christian Union.

Third Sabbath in July, for the Sabbath School Union of
the Reformed Dutch Church.

The ordinary collections on the Sabbaths not designated
for special objects, are for the assistance of needy members
of the Church, to whom distribution is made by the Deacons.

MANUAL. 35

MISCELLANEOUS.

Families are requested to give the Pastor timely notice of
removals, sickness, affliction or death, as ignorance of these
events may be the cause of apparent neglect on his part.

"It shall be incumbent upon members of the Church, in
removing from the bounds of one Church to another, to ob-
tain a certificate of membership and dismission." (Consti-
tution, Chapter II., Article 2, Section 9).

It is recommended to every member, to procure a copy of
the Constitution of the Church, and so to become familiar
with her doctrines, order and history.

The Pastor earnestly hopes inquirers for the way of sal-
vation will come to him, or make known their feelings to
him without reserve and at any time.

36 MANUAL

MEMBERS IN FULL COMMUNION,
January 1st, A.D., 1861.

Those who have removed out of the bounds of the con-
gregation, and have not taken certificates of dismission, are
marked thus ( f ).

P denotes received on Profession of faith.

C denotes received on Certificate.

P C denotes the person having first professed faith in this
Church, and afterwards dismissed to some other Church, and
again received into this Church on Certificate.

The maiden names of married female members are given
in parenthesis ( ).

A

Abrahams, Sarah — Jesse D. (Van Reypen) P 1854

Ackerman, Hester — John L. (Williams) C 1840

Albert P 1841

Helen— Albert, (Van Home) P 1841

Abigail— John N. (Van Dine) P 1848

Sophia— John G. (Post) P C 1858

Margaret A. — wid. John J. (Kissam) P 1859

Aldridge, Joseph P C 1858

Catharine — Joseph, (Ackerman) P C 1858

Allen, Alletta— Henry, (Prior) P 1845

Ascheman, Martha E.— F. T. (Davis) C1857

MANUAL. 37

B

Bailey, Mary — wid. Samuel, (Woods) f P 1818

RushtonR P 1848

Benedict, Helen— Smitli, (Wood) P C 1860

Benson, Hannah — Cornelius, (Welsh) P 1854

Bidwell, Harriet A.— Alfred G. ( ) C 1850

Blauvelt, John G f^ 1836

Bouker, John A P 1853

Sarah E. — John A. (Simmons) P 1853

Brigham, Lewis A P 1858

Elizabeth Ann — Lewis A. (Yan Winkle). P 1853

Sarah — Harry, (Bowman) C 1857

Brinkerhoff, John P 1835

Hannah— John, (Tice) P1836

Jane — wid. Henry, (Van Home).. P 1838

Jane — wid. Cornelius, (Yreeland) . P 1842

Buck, Cath'ne P.— Ephraim W. M.D.(Ackerman). P 1858

Buffet, Edward P.— M. D C 1859

Brittin, Abraham P 1836

Gertrude— Abraham, (Van Cieef)... . . . . P 1836

Jasper P P 1836

Adrianna— Jasper P. (Welsh) P 1835

Bruchon, Peter Charles C 1859

Bush, David P 1842

Eliza— JDavid, (Simmons) P 1818

Garret P 1842

Hannah— Garret, (Vreeland) P 1853

Juha Annetta P 1853

C

Cadmus, Eliza — wid. Jasper, (Van Home) C 1850

Carr, Henry J C 1859

Sarah Elizabeth— Henry J. (Cochrane).... C 1859

38 MANUAL.

Clendenny, Jane — Jolm V. H. (Van Keypen) . . P 1859

Coclirane, Samuel B C 1860

Collard, Ann — wid. Abraham, (Yreeland) P 1818

Connelly, Jane— William, (Fowler) C 1859

Cornelison, Cath'ne M. — wid. Rev. Jolm, (Mesier) P 1795

Corwin, Ilannali M. — James H. (Garretson). ... C 1856

Cowles, Henrietta— Silas II. (Kitchel) C 1860

D

Daniels, Rachel S P 1831

Decker, Hannah Maria— Levi, (Welsh) fP 1857

De Mott, George P 1842

Ellen Ann— George, (Smith) P 1840

Margaret — wid. Michael, (Ackerman) P 1846

George V P 1842

Georgianna P 1860

Dillaway, Georgine P 1857

Ann Elizabeth P 1857

Duryee, Catharine — James, (Brouwer) P 1857

John P 1858

Eliza Ann— John, (Van Saun) P 1 858

E

Earle, Gitty— Nathaniel, (Duryee) P 1842

Margaret— Peter H. (Chapman) C 1860

Everett, Robert \'P 1848

Sarah— Robert, (Hughes) j? 18^2

Nicholas, C C 1858

Eliza Ann Euphemia C 1858

Mary Louisa C 1858

Emma C 1858

Matilda C 1858

La.ura C 1858

MANUAL. 39

Everett, Cordelia. ; C 1858

Caroline Augusta C 1 858

Emery, William C 1860

Jane L. — William, (Slack) C 1860

F

Fritzche, Margaret — wid. Cliarles G. ( ). fC 1852

Fitcli, Henry C 1855

Harriet — Henry, (Morse) C 1855

Margaret E P 1858

Henry, Jr P 1858

G

Geer, Angle— Seth, (De Graff) C 1860

Gemm el, Margaret— William, (Van Winkle) .. . P 185Y

Gibson, Hugh fC 185Y

Giberson, Jane — Antliony, (Megaw) C 1856

Gilbert, Emma C— William, (Everett) P 1856

Giraud, Elizabeth— Jacob P. (Lines) fP 1848

Grames, Marian f P 1 842

Graves, Elizabeth — Amos, (Fitch) C 1855

Caroline C 1855

Elizabeth P C 1855

Gravo, Mary Anna — Henry, (Lamars) fP 1837

Griffith, Thomas C 1848

Margaret— Thomas, (Collins) P 1856

Gregory, Elizabeth L C 1860

H

Harrison, Edgar R P 1842

Hart, Sarah— Samuel S. (Tice) P 1842

Haulenbeck, EtFee — John L. (Romaine) P 1858

Havens, Sarah Gertrude— Valentine H. (Brittin) P 1844

40 ' MANUAL.

Honeck, Frederick P 1850

Sophia— Frederick, (Flickenscheldt).. .. P 1850

Howser, William G P 1859

Huestis, Sarah C 1859

Hunt, Alice C 1841

Emily C 1841

J

Jackson, Abigail, (Colored) wid P 1835

Jeffers, Moses. fC 1826

Johnson, John, (Colored) P 1842

Abraham P 1844

Maria — Abraham, (Diiryee) P 183Y

Susan— wid. John, (Colored) P 1851

Jones, James N C 1850

Gertrude— James N. (Van Pelt) C 1850

Phebe— John, (Morgan) P 1 856

JamesP P 1859

K

Kelis, Dorcas— James, (Van Home) P 1844

Catharine— Calvin, (Greenleaf) P 1858

Kent, Sarah— Wilson, (Spear) f C 1 834

Kitchell, James T C 1860

Knox, George C 1855

Mary— George, (Edgar) C 1856

L

Lansing, Charlotte B.— David F. (Whipple). . . . j;C 1849

Layton, Mary A.— Sydney M. (Sherman) C 1858

Lewis, Ann— Martin, (Tolen) C 1853

Lindsley, Henry C 1857

Jane — Henry, (Hageman) C 1857

MANUAL. 41

Loney, John \V 1838

Lyon, Gertrude A {'P 1842

M

Mandevelle, Ann — Henry, (Outwater) P 1818

Mary A P 1853

Marcellus, Sarah — Rev. Aaron A. (Marcellus) . . . C 1860

Merritt, Jane— Gilbert, (Earle) C 1858

Me Intyre, Arietta P.— James S. (Welsh) P 1849

Merserean, Elizabeth — John, (Carr) P 1818

Midwinter, Giles P 1854

Sarah— Giles, (Williams) P 1854

Miller, Elizabeth— Jacob C 1856

Morey, Sarah— Luther, (Gould) P 1 848

Morse, Margaret— Rev. B. Y. (.Oakes) P 1 860

Morton, John W P 1858

N .

Neill, Mary E f^ 18^3

Newkirk, George P 1817

Sarah— George, (Yan Derhoef) Pl81'7

Rachael— Garret J. (Shepherd) P 1819

Elizabeth— Jacob, (Brinkerhoff) P 1835

Henry G P 1842

Sarah— Henry G. (Yan Boskerk) P 1 842

Garret G P 1842

Jane— Garret G. (Yan Riper) P 1842

Maria— Abm P. (Tallman) C 1848

Sarah J.— James M. (Yreeland) C 1842

Jacob P 1843

0

O' Harra, Rebecca— Calvin, (Scott) P 1851

Outwater, Eleanor— John G. (Prior) P 1834

JohnG P 1843

Oliver, Eliza Ann— Thomas, (Tuers) C 1 858

42 MANUAL.

P

Parks, Margaret — Merseles M. (Yreeland) P 1842

Patterson, John C 1 859

Arietta— John, (Bull) C 1860

Peer, Ann — John, (Jacobus) P 1 855

Peters, Eliza— John L. (De Motte) fP 1854

Post, Henry P P 1860

Helen — Henry P. (Mersereau) P1858

Sarah— John, (Van Home) P C 1840

Helen— John J. (Van Winkle) P 1 853

Ann— wid John, (Van Wart) P 1836

Cornelius T P 1858

Abigail— wid. John E. (Prior) P1818

Catharine A. — Cornelius T. (Joralemon) . . P 1858

Pond,EriD C 1860

Adaline— Eri D C 1860

Price, Harrison P 1857

Jane — Harrison, (Barclay) C 1857

Pike, Thomas fP 1838

Alice— Thomas, (Wilson) tC^lS38

Prior, Annie P 1818

Margaret — Andrew, (Tucker) P 1825

Hannah — wid. Nicholas C. (Yreeland) P 1846

R

Rapp, Mary— wid. John A. (Van Cleef) P 1817

Catharine — Andrew, (Brittin) P 1833

Elizabeth M.— Abm. J. (Welcher) P 1842

Hannah — John, (Van Reypen) P 1852

Catharine Jane — Andrew A. (Vreeland).... P 1855

Catharine — Adam, (Van Reypen) P 1859

Romaine, John R P 1842

Ann— John R. (Zabriskie) P 1 842

MANUAL. 43

Romaine, Ralph C 1847

Jemima— Ralph, (Van Home) C 1857

Royle, Thomas P 1S60

Russel, Catharine C— wid. William, (Tallman). G 1854

Rutzer, Amelia A.— William, (De Motte) P1848

Ryerson, Matilda — John A. (Linderman) C 18C0

S

Shepherd, Catherine— wid. Geo. (Van Winkle) . . P 1 81 0

Simmons, Mary — wid. John, (i^ckerman) P 1842

Michael P 1843

Henry P fP 1858

Catharine— Henry P. (Post) fP 1858

Sip, Garret P 1816

Margaret— Garret, (Newkirk) P181G

Jane P 1836

Ann— ^^dd. Peter, (Van Winkle) P 1842

Richard P 1856

Sarah E.— Richard, (Wayland) C 1857

Skidmore, Phebe— Sylvester, (Wood) C 1853

Slater, Hugh P 1849

Eliza— Hugh, (Riker) P 1850

Smith, Rebecca fP 1851

JohnE P C 1857

Jane— wid. Joseph, (Pierce) P C 1857

Speer, Abraham P 1 843

Ellen J.— Abraham, (Tharp) P 1837

Speir, Louisa— William, (Leggett) C 1856

Stevens, James C 1856

Ann— James, (Williams) C 1856

T

Tallman, Nancy— wid. Hermanns, (Coleman).. C 1848

Taylor, Anna R.— Rev. B. C. (Romeyn) C 1828

44 MANUAL.

Terhune, Stephen C 1853

Mary — Stephen, (Joralemon) P 1832

Michael C 1849

Jane — Michael, (Vreeland) C 1849

Jane— Stephen, (Terhune) P C 1857

Peter N C 1860

Anna, Peter N. (Van Iderstyn) C 1860

Tice, Nancy — Martin, (Van Riper).. P 1842

Jane — wid. Richard, (Van Houten) P 1850

Sarah Catharine P 1858

Tuers, Abraham P 1 853

Hester A.— Abraham, (Van Winkle) P 1858

Tuttle, Hannah— wid. Joel, (Waldron) P 1831

Tulp, Aaltye ; C 1857

William C 1851

Martha B.— William, (Morris) C 1851

Toffee, Mary D. R.— George A. (Cook) C 1857

V

Van Alen, Mary G.— J. Prnyn, (Taylor) PC 1859

Van Blarcom, Ryer P 1857

Van Buren, Ann — Beekman, (Ackerman) P C 1860

Van Cleef, Elizabeth— Daniel, (Van der Beck) P 1819

Van Dolsen, Samuel jT 1818

Van Home, John J P 1818

Jane — wid. Cornelius J. (Garrabrant) P 1819

Minedert P 1820

Cathari'e — wid. Garret, (Garrabrant) P 1824

John G P 1824

Hannah— John G. (Van Riper)... . P 1824

Rebecca — wid. Garret, (Sharpley).. P 1831

Agnes — Garret, (Van Home) P 1839

Gertrude — John C. (Ackerman). . . P 1841

Jacob P 1842

M A N IT A L .

Van Home, Harriet E.-Jacob, (Outwater) ... P 1842

Cornelia-John J. (Van Men) C 1843

Ti T jrlool

John, Jr .

Mary-John, Jr. (Post) P 1844

f^"f; ::: pms

Garret,! •••

Mary Jane-Garret, I. (Br.ttm) ... P 1858

Sarah-wid. Andrew, (Daniels) .... C I860

Van Reypen, Elizabeth ■

Elizab'h-wid. Garret C.(Vanmrt) P 1818

„ . , P 1823

^'^"".-••A- P1836

Cornelius O

Cbristina-Coriis. C. (Van Alen).. C 1836

j,^^ P 1848

Mary— Cornelius R. (Sickles) P 1850

Catharine V.H ^ ^^^^

Van Riper, Charity-wid. Chris. (Van Houten) . P 1818

Hannah— wid. Garret C. (Evans)... fP ^^^^

Van Vorst, Cynthia-wid. Garret, (Hennion).. . P 1836

Van Wagenen, Hartman p 1855

Jacob

Jane— Jacob, (Van Boskerck). . . P 1 854

Van Wiclde, Elizabeth- John, (Patterson) C 1860

Van Winkle, Jacob D • • • • ^ ^f^

Ann— Jacob D. (Vreeland) P 1815

Margaret— wid. Corn. (Van Riper) P 1818

Ann-wid. John G. (Van Winkle) P 1830

Sarah— wid. Garret S. (Van Riper) . P 1 840

Jacob P1^^2

Maria-Jacob, (Sip) ? 1842

Gitty ^'"'^

Daniel ^ ^^'^

Effee-Daniel, (Ne^'kirk) P 1 850

AUettaAnn P 1856

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Van Winkle, Jacob, Jr C 1858

Margaret — Jacob, Jr. (Mandeville) P C 1858

Maria — wid. Henry E. (Jackson).. C 1859

Isabel C 1859

Julia P 1859

Jacob A P C 1860

Sarali— Jacob A. (Cadmus) P C 1860

Van Zee, Peter P 1856

Adrianna— Peter, (De Kock) P 1856

Cornelius C 1856

Dericka — Cornelius, (De Kock) C 1856

Vreeland, Stephen P 1814

Margaret— Ricbard, (De Mott).. P 1816

Nicholas P 1817

Betsey — Nicholas, (Van Riper) C 1835

Daniel P 1832

Cornelia— Daniel, (Newkirk) P1818

Abraham P 1838

Hannah — Abraham, (Van Reypen) . . P 1838

GarretR P 1840

Nicholas S P 1842

Ellen J.— Nicholas S. (Van Riper). . . P 1842

Garret P 1842

Catharine— Garret, (Van Buskirk)... P 1842

Ann Jane— Michael J. (Vreeland)... P 1842

Stephen B P 1850

Fanny P 1851

Jane— Peter, (Van Home) P 1852

Abraham A P 1856

Rachael — Abraham A. (Vreeland).. . P 1850

Jacob J P 1856

Gitty— Jacob J. (Vreeland) P 1 842

Cornelius A P 1858

Mary— Cornelius A. (Newkirk) ...... ? 1858

Anna E..c P 1858

MANUAL. 47

W

Washburn, Racliael D— wid. C. L. (Tice) P ISSY

Welsh, Sarah— Henry R. (Mead) P 1842

JamesB t? 1842

Ellen— James B. (Waldron) \'F 184.2

Gitty g.— John B. (Vreeland) j ? 1842

Margaret — Archer G. (Stager) P 1844

Abner B P 1850

Adam R P 1853

Hannah L t? 1853

Wilson, Sophia— Blakely, (Newkirk) P 1850

Wolfe, Phebe A.— Hugh N. (Crane) P 1860

Wood, Eliza— Joseph W. (Welsh) P 1857

Woods, Sarah— Walter, (Post) P 1845

Z

Zabriskie, Albert P 1836

Catharine— Albert, (Van Reypen).. . . P 1835

Lavina— John V. H. (Banta) fP 183'7

Jacob A P 1858

Lavina — Jacob] A. (Ackerman) P 1853

Whole number of Communicants, January 1st 1861,
three hundred and thirty -three. [333].

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