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.. William Reade.
The amount subscribed was about £350. Degroot, Fisher, Van Norden, Anderson, and others were residents of Bound Brook. William Riddle was probably a son of Archibald Riddle, who located lot 44 on the east side of North Branch, in. Bridgewater township. Mary Alexander was the daughter of Dr. John Johaston (who purchased large tracts of land in this region) and the wife of James Alexander, who with D. D. Dun- star bought 583 acres of land, including the site of Lamington and other tracts north.
The church was built on land donated by Jacob Eoff, and stood in the roadway of the churchyard, southeast of the present building. In 1760 the Rev. Paul Bryzelins settled in Germantown as rector of Zion and St. Paul's Churches. He was succeeded in 1767 by the Rev. Henry Muhlenberg. In this year a charter for the two churches was obtained, a part of which is here quoted :
" GEORGE THE THIRD, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, And Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, etc .: To ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, GREETING : Whereas, the Reverend Henry Muhl- enberg, Lawrence Ruloph, Samuel Bernard, Philip Weigs, Jacob Klein, Peter Rish, Wm. Craft, Christopher Vogt, Ruloph Rulofson, John Stone, Balthas Pickel, Herman Rulophs, and Anthony Meelick, Inhabitants of the Townships of Tewksbury, Reading, and Roxbury, in the Counties of Hunterdon and Morris in our Province of New Jersey ; Lucas Dipple, David King, Jacob Eoff, John Appelman, Leonard Strait, Conrad Meiz- iog, Aaron Meelick, Jacob Vosler, Mark King, Christopher Tipple, John Teple, and Peter Meelick, lohabitants of the Townships of Bedminster, Bridgewater, and Bernard, in Our County of Somerset in Our said Prov- ince, by the Petition to Oor trusty and well-beloved William Franklin, Esq., Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief of our said Province of New Jersey and the Territories thereon depending in America, Chancellor and Vice-Admiral of the same, etc., have set forth that they have at a great Expense purchased several lots of ground in Tewksbury Township nforesaid, and have built a Ilouse of Worship called Zion Church and a par- sonage House on part thereof, and have set the rest apart for a Glebe and Burying.Ground, that they have also bought a lot of land in the Towuship of Bedminster aforesaid, and erected a building thereon called St. Paul's Church, that they with the other regular Members of said Churches have heretofore made and signed certain Articles and Rules for the good gov- eroment of the said societies; but that they labor under many difficul- ties for want of their being made a Body Corporate and politic, and linve prayed OUR ROYAL CHARTER to be incorporated by the names of the Rec- tor, Churchwardens, and Vestrymen, of the United Churches of Zion and St. Paul: And WE being willing to give all dne encouragement and to promote the pious intentions of Our said subjecte and to grant their re- gard in this behalf: Now Know YE, that WE, for the considerations aforesaid, of Our especial Grace, certain Knowledge, and mere Motion, have willed, ordained, constituted, and approved, and by these Presents for Us, Our Heirs, and Successors, Do Will, Ordain, Constitute, and Ap- point, that the Rev. Henry Muhlenberg,t and their successors to be elected and chosen in the munner hereinafter directed, Be and forever hereafter shall be, one Body Politic and Corporate, in Deed and in nume, by the name of the Rector, Church-wardens, and Vestrymen of the United Churches of Zion and St. Paul, and them and their successors by the same name, WE do by These I'resente, for Ua, Our Heirs, and Suc- cessors, really and fully make, ordain, constitute, and declare, one Body Corporate and Politic in Deed and in Name, to have Community and Succession perpetual, and that they and their successors by the Name shall and may forever hereafter be Persons able nud capable in the Law to purchase, have, take, and receive, and enjoy, to them and their Suc- cessors, Messuages, Lands, Tenements, Rents, Liberties, Privileges, Ju- risdictions, Franchisos, and other Hereditaments, whatsoever of whatever nature, kind, and quality, they be, in Fee and Perpetuity, not exceeding the yearly value of Five Hundred Pounds Sterling," etc.
This charter is written on parchment, with the seal of the province attached. Two years later, in 1769,
* The original list is In possession of John Van Zandt, of Somerville.
+ Ifere follow the names of the twenty-four vestrymen.
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BEDMINSTER.
Peter Muhlenberg was chosen as deacon or assistant rector. In 1770 the following resolution of the vestry was recorded :
" The pro tem. rector or his regular assistant mluister shall perform Divine service on every second Sun and Feast day in Zion Church, and for so doing enjoy undisturbed habitation on the Globe and the yearly legacy of Mr. Bultes Pickel. Also every fourth Sunday ho shull preach In Roxbury called the Valley, and receive from Ihnt congregation £20. Also every fourth Sunday in St. Paul's Church Bedminster and catechise the children, recelving £20 therefor."
In 1775 the Rev. William Graaf was called to the rectorship, the Rev. Henry Muhlenberg living in Philadelphia, his former assistant having been called to a parish in Virginia.
The members of Zion Church applied to the Leg- islature of the State for an act of incorporation sep- arating them from the church of St. Paul and giving them the corporate name of " Zion's Church." Un- der this act the trustees sold the lands and church of St. Paul to William MeEwen. This sale was con- tested in the courts on the ground that the original charter conferred no power to sell in fee the lands of the church. The HIon. Richard Stockton rendered a decision in the matter, as follows :
" I decide that Inuds conveyed by deed to William McEwen, Esq., aro null and void, and that Zion's vestrymen have no right to sell church and lands of St. Paul."
The property then reverted to Abraham Van Ars- dale in right of his wife, Mary Eoff, the daughter of Jacob.
The church was used as a prison for British soldiers captured at Princeton. The pews and seats were taken out, and it was much injured. It was never repaired after this, neither was any service held there. Compensation for damages was received from the Government in later years. The walls remained standing until they became dangerous, and were finally taken down. Some of the stones were used in the erection of a dam at Kline's mills. On the site, in 1831, a Methodist church was erected; it stood until about 1850, when it was removed to its present location and occupied as a school-house. The Pres- bytcrian Society of Pluckamin purchased the ground, receiving a quit-claim dred of the trustces of Zion Church and of Philip Van Arsdale in behalf of the heirs of Jacob Eoff. The burial-place, east and south of the church, is full of graves; part of the old one was purchased by Peter Worley, a blacksmith, who built a shop upon it, and took the gravestones to pave the cellar of his house. The altar-cloth of the St. Paul's Church is in possession of William P. Sut- phin.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH AT LAMINGTON."
There is, perhaps, no study which so readily inter- ests the mind as that of history. It is like living our- selves through the ages that are past.
And, first, it may not be improper to remark upon
the name which we bear. We have, in fact, two names. Our name in law, according to the act of in- corporation passed by the Legislature of this State in 1783, is "The Presbyterian Congregation at Bedmin- ster, in the counties of Somerset and Hunterdon." By this name alone can we receive, hold, or convey property. The name by which we are generally known is derived from the stream near us, called by the Indians, and also in the oldler statutes of our State, and on Gordon's first map, the .Illametunk, but, sharing the fate of many majestic Indian appellations, it has now been flattened down into "Lamington." With regard to the time of our organization, the first record in relation thereto is found in the minutes of the Presbytery of New Brunswick. At a meeting held at Amwell, Oct. 11, 1739, the second year of the existence of that Presbytery, the record is in these words: " A petition from Lamintunk, in order for supplies, being offered to the Presbytery, they ordered Mr. Rowland to supply them the 19th inst." At a subsequent meeting, three weeks afterwards, at New Brunswick, it is.recorded that Mr. Rowland reported that he had "complied with the order respecting preaching at Lamintunk." Whether he preached here on any other occasion does not appear, although, doubtless, there were other services, both before and afterwards, which led to the organization of a church and the call of a pastor in the spring of 1740.
The first preaching-place, according to tradition, was a barn on the farm now owned by Hezekiah Eyck. As we learn from our trustee-books, in 1740 a house of worship was erected on our present lot. The deed for the lot, of date March, 1743, speaks of the church as already built. The sum paid to the car- penter, Israel Ross, was £134. This building had on the lower floor thirty-six pews, with twenty-two in the gallery, and was probably the first church edifice erected within ten miles of this place, the Lutheran church of New Germantown being built nine years after. The erection of the building was simultaneous with the call of the pastor. April 1, 1840, occurs the following record of Presbytery held nt Basking Ridge:
" A call for Mr. McCren was presented to the Presbytery from the people of Lametunk, Lebanon, Peapack, Readingtou, and Bethichea), which he accepted."
As the congregation was not incorporated until 1783, its temporal concerns were for many years man- aged by a committee. The first chosen in 1740 were John Craig, William Jones, Richard Porter, and Wil- liam Hugein. To these were added, in 1742, Ephraim Lockhart, William Logan, James Fullerton, and Henry Sloan. In 1749 we find on that committee Ralph Smith, John McFerren, William Colwell, Robert Rosbough, Peter Demun, William Bay, and Thomas Van Horn. Descendants from most of these persons are still connected with us. The name of William Jones is noticeable as the husband of Heph- zibah Jones, whose gravestone records her death, in 1740, being the oldest dlate in our cemetery.
* Extracted from an historical sermon deilvered to the congregation, contributed to "Our Home" by Dr. William W. Blauvelt, pastor of the church.
718
SOMERSET COUNTY, NEW JERSEY.
As the records of the church session prior to 1809 are not to be found, we can give no detail of the re- sult of Mr. McCrea's ministry. The following among other names are found in the congregational lists of his pastorate: David Heriot, John Henry, Robert Bar- clay, Derick Sutphen, James Adams, Patrick Brown, Aaron Dilly, Peter McDowell, Ephraim McDowell, Jacob Van Derveer, William Hoagland, James Gas- ton, William Linn, Robert Simonton, William Sutton, Jacob Ten Eycke, William Todd, Matthias Lane, Gar- ret Lane, Gilbert Sutphen, Bryan Lafferty, James McEwen, Mrs. Mehelm, John Voorhees, Aaron Beek- man, Christopher Beekman, Andrew Leake, Benyew Dunham, Christopher Longstreet, and John Stillwell. We find also that in 1752 there was an agreement to enlarge the building, which shows that the church was then prosperous.
After the resignation of Mr. McCrea, in 1766, the congregation was without a pastor for three and a half years, the pulpit being supplied from abroad. April 17, 1770, a call from the people of Bedminster was made to Mr. Jeremiah Halsey. He died Oct. 2, 1780, aged forty-seven.
In 1768, the congregation purchased a parsonage farm,-the one, it is said, which now belongs to Mr. Beaver. This they sold to Thomas Lambert in the spring of 1784, and in the fall purchased for the resi- dence of their minister, from the estate of John Demund, the farm which is now owned by Hezekiah Eyck.
In the spring of 1782 the congregation obtained the stated services of Dr. John Rodgers, who remained in charge until November, 1783.
Rev. William Boyd followed Dr. Rodgers. His pas- torate has always been referred to as the palmy days of this congregation. The number of communicants, however, was not large, as in 1801 there were reported to Presbytery only 80. Mr. Boyd died May 17, 1807, in the forty-ninth year of his age and the twenty- third of his ministry, this having been his first and only charge. His funeral sermon was preached by Dr. Finley, of Basking Ridge. Among the new fam- ilies introduced on our books in his time, we find, in 1787, John Boylan, Simon Hagaman, Thomas C. Lam- bert, William McKissack, John Duyckinck; 1789, Henry Traphagen, Aaron Melick; 1792, Peter Nevius; 1793, John Honeyman, David Traphagen, Thomas Wolverton; 1795, Isaac Farlee, John M. Williams, Jeremiah Field, Joseph Annin, Abraham Van Dyke, Job Lane, Abraham Simonson, John McBride; 1796, Abraham Ten Eyck, Henry Field; 1797, Cornelius Powelson ; 1798, John Finley, Henry Stevens, Thomas Stout, Andrew Vosseller, Nicholas Arrowsmith, Everet Bergen ; 1800, Dr. Isaac Ogden ; 1801, Francis IJaga- man, Henry Blackwell, Gabriel Vandervoort, Gilbert Low, John Bunn; 1802, Samuel Potter, Andrew Van Derbeek; 1803, John Beckman, Jeremiah Voorhees, Henry Kennedy; 1804, Benjamin Larzalier; 1806, Aaron Longstreet; 1807, William Lambert. In 1784,
and also in 1807, the edifice received considerable re- pairs. In consequence, it is said, of the difficulty ex- perienced in keeping the parsonage in good order, it was sold to the pastor in 1801.
After the death of a minister so highly esteemed, the people found great difficulty in uniting to call a successor. The strife was so serious and prolonged that the Presbytery sent a committee of conciliation and a letter, though, as subsequently appears, with little effect. At length, in June, 1809, a call from the majority was presented through Presbytery to the Rev. Enoch Burt, of Massachusetts, and accepted by him. His ministry terminated in 1813.
His successor was the Rev. Horace Galpin, who was ordained and installed June 15, 1814, and con- tinued here until April, 1825. During this time 123 persons were received into communion. The largest ingathering was in 1822, when 53 were received.
April 3, 1826, the corner-stone of the present edifice was laid by the Rev. Dr. John McDowell, then pas- tor of the First Church of Elizabethtown. It was shortly after this event, in the early part of June, that by special invitation the present pastor first visited this place. He preached two Sabbaths, when he received a call, and came July 11th. He was or- dained and installed on August 8th, the services being held in the new house, then in an unfinished state. At the time of his settlement the number of com- municants was 152. At present the whole number is but 135. This diminution is to be accounted for, in part at least, by the organization of new churches on the outskirts, the passing of many farms to the owner- ship of persons attached to other denominations, re- movals, deaths, etc. The contributions for 1879 were $2025 for congregational and $400 for benevolent pur- poses.
The following persons now deceased are known to have entered the ministry from the membership : Ja- cob Fields, of Stroudsburgh ; Dr. Isaac Brown, of Lawrenceville; William B. Sloan, of Greenwich ; Dr. John McDowell ; Dr. William McDowell ; Dr. Ber- gen, of Springfield, Ill. ; Dr. Symmes Henry, of Cran- bury ; John C. Vandervoort, of Basking Ridge; and Jesse Lockwood, who died a missionary among the Indians. Also, still living, Abram Hagaman, of Mis- souri; George Blauvelt, of Tappan ; Dr. Morris Sut- phin, of New York; Alstyne Blauvelt, of German Valley; and William E. Honeyman, of Minnesota. Two died while in course of preparation,-Warren S. Blauvelt and Isaac F. Sutphin. Two went from the families of the congregation, though not from the church membership,-Oliver Ogden and John Simon- son.
Rev. William Warren Blauvelt, D.D., the present pastor, is the oldest minister now in active service in the county. He has already entered upon the fifty- fourth year of his ministry, and if he begins his fifty- fifth he will have overreached the long pastorate of Dr. Ludlow and eclipsed all those famous for their
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BEDMINSTER.
length in the county .* The carly history of the doc- tor was eventful ; the later has not been so. Born in New Brunswick, June 23, 1800, he was an octogena- rian last June, and yet all the striking events of his life occurred before he was twenty-seven. His father was the somewhat noted printer, Abraham Blauvelt, brother-in-law of the late Col. Joseph Warren Scott, long the ablest lawyer in the State. Not fancying tho printer's trade, he was found studying law at the early age of fourteen in the colonel's office, having already graduated from Rutgers College with the high honor of valedictorian. His reminiscences of college life, published in "Our Home" for 1873, are quaint and humorous. When sixteen it was found that his health was too much impaired for him to continue the study of law, and he was sent to Virginia. He stayed on the Eastern Shore of Virginia scarce a year, when he returned to New Jersey, locating at Flem- ington as a school-teacher. He taught the academy six months, and was then called by Dr. Brownlee to help him in his school at Basking Ridge. Dr. Brownlee was more an author than a teacher, and almost the full charge of the school fell upon Mr. Blauvelt. William L. Dayton, the eminent Prof. Cross, and others, were among his pupils. He spent two years and a half there, and then concluded to enter the New Brunswick Seminary and prepare for the ministry. He remained from fall till spring only, his close application to the study of Hebrew breaking him down physically. Obtaining a temporary situa- tion in the Trenton Academy, he remained there until the next February (1822), when he was invited to Hampden-Sydney College, Virginia, and was tntor there until 1824. Secretary Preston, Judge Reeves, and other men of note were among his students. The old desire for the ministry returning with better health, Mr. Blauvelt again went to New Brunswick, reaching there the day Gen. Lafayette passed through the city. Re-entering the seminary, he remained until April, then passed a satisfactory examination before the Presbytery at Lawrenceville and was licensed to prench. He attempted the examination without waiting for the completion of his theological course, because his health was again giving way. He was too close a student to keep his physique in repair ; but this dear experience was of use to him afterwards. He just missed being called to the First Presbyterian Church at Trenton, and then concluded to horseback it through Delaware Co., N. Y., us a missionary of the Dutch Missionary Society, believing that would givo him health and useful experience. Among a plain people, where were no churches, he accom- plished a noble work. He rode and preached from April to November, 1825, and then served as the So- ciety's traveling collection agent until April, 1826.
* Rov. Dr. G. Ludlow'a was fifty-four years; Rev. Dr. A. Mossler's, forty-sovon; Rov. J. C. Scara', forty-five; Rev. Dr. H. K. Rogers', forty- four ; Rov. J. T. English, thirty-six ; Rov. J. B. Ginnduer istill continu- ing), thirty-six.
Returning to New York City, his connection with the Dutch society brought him into a near business relation to its treasurer, Timothy Hutton, and the still nearer business and social relationship of a son- in-law, as he soon married Mr. Hutton's daughter. Ilis wife lived until 1876, and proved one of the richest treasures ever given to him. A noble woman, she deserved what she received,-the affections of all the people of Lamington Church. On the recom- mendation of Rev. Dr. Brownlee, the young preacher came to Lamington Church as a canditate, was at once " called," and is yet there. In all that long pastorate of fifty-four years a word of suggestion that a better pastor or preacher could be seenred has not been known to have been uttered. The record is yet uncompleted, but it is as bright as the sun and clear as crystal, and will stand wheu nations perish.
The doctor has given two sons to the ministry,- George M. and I. Alstyne,-and a third one, deceased, was in course of preparation.
BEDMINSTER REFORMED DUTCH CHURCHE.
Bedminster was originally an outpost of Raritan, and the necessity of a church there grew out of the settlement of certain families of influence in that vicinity. We may mention Jacobus and Peter Van Derveer, Mathew Lane, Guisbert Sutphin, and others as among these families. The first record having ref- erence to this church is found in the book of minutes belonging to the church at Raritan, and is dated Dec. 25, 1758. It is in the handwriting of J. R. Harden- burgh, and recites that at a meeting of the Consis- tories of North Branch, Neshanic, Bedminster, Mill- stone, and Raritan, at the house of J. R. Hardenburgh in Somerville, Dominics Leydt and Hardenburgh, "a proponent," being present, Elders Jacob Banta and Jacob Van Derveer, and Deacons Rynier Van Neste and Cortelius Lane were chosen as overseers for the first time in the congregation of Bedminster. This, then, is the first Consistory, and properly the organi- zation of this church. The next is dated Dec. 13, 1759, and fixes a line between Bedminster and Raritan, stated to be the lane or line running east and west between Paulus Auten and Hendrick Van Arsdalen, provided the persons on either side were willing to go to Bedminster or Raritan respectively. Anne 24, 1759, Frederick Banta was appointed a "helper."
Nov. 25, 1761, at a meeting of the Consistory, Johannes Haas and Jan Voorhees were admitted on confession of their faith, und Matthew Lane by cer- tificate. March 8, 1762, Jacob Van Derveer was continued as elder, and John Voorhees chosen deacon in the place of Rynier Van Neste. Der. 31, 1784. Maria Folkerson, wife of Folkert, Maria Woertman, wife of Jan, and Catherine Bordt, wife of N. N., were admitted on confession of faith, and were baptized April Ist. We have gathered these items from the minute-book of the Raritan Church, in the handwrit- ing of Dr. Hardenburgh.
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