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EDWARD TANJORE CORWIN D.D. LITT.D.
The University of the State of New York THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION DIVISION OF ARCHIVES AND HISTORY
ECCLESIASTICAL RECORDS -
STATE OF NEW YORK
Volume VII INDEX
Prepared by Rev. E. T. Corwin D.D. Litt.D., under the auspices of the State Historian, James A. Holden
ALBANY THE UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
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THE UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
Regents of the University with years when terms expire
1926 PLINY T. SEXTON LL.B. LL.D. Chancellor - Palmyra 1927 ALBERT VANDER VEER M.D. M.A. Ph.D. LL.D. Vice Chancellor - Albany
1922 CHESTER S. LORD M.A. LL.D. Brooklyn 1918 WILLIAM NOTTINGHAM M.A. Ph.D. LL.D. - Syracuse 1921 FRANCIS M. CARPENTER - Mount Kisco
1923 ABRAM I. ELKUS LL.B. D.C.L.
- New York
1924 ADELBERT MOOT LL.D. -
Buffalo
1925 CHARLES B. ALEXANDER M.A. LL.B. LL.D. Litt.D. - - Tuxedo
1919 JOHN MOORE Elmira
1928 WALTER GUEST KELLOGG B.A. Ogdensburg 1 1917 WILLIAM BERRI - - Brooklyn
1920 JAMES BYRNE B.A. LL.B. New York
President of the University and Commissioner of Education JOHN H. FINLEY M.A. LL.D. L.H.D.
Deputy Commissioner of Education and Assistant Commissioner for Elementary Education THOMAS E. FINEGAN M.A. Pd.D. LL.D.
Assistant Commissioner for Higher Education
AUGUSTUS S. DOWNING M.A. L.H.D. LL.D.
Assistant Commissioner for Secondary Education CHARLES F. WHEELOCK B.S. LL.D.
Director of State Library JAMES I. WYER, JR, M.L.S. Director of Science and State Museum JOHN M. CLARKE Ph.D. D.Sc. LL.D. Chiefs and Directors of Divisions
Administration, GEORGE M. WILEY M.A.
Agricultural and Industrial Education, ARTHUR D. DEAN D.Sc., · Director
Archives and History, JAMES A. HOLDEN B.A., Director
Attendance, JAMES D. SULLIVAN
Educational Extension, WILLIAM R. WATSON B.S.
Examinations, HARLAN H. HORNER M.A.
Inspections, FRANK H. WOOD M.A.
Law, FRANK B. GILBERT B.A.
Library School, FRANK K. WALTER M.A. M.L.S. School Libraries, SHERMAN WILLIAMS Pd.D.
Statistics, HIRAM C. CASE
Visual Instruction, ALFRED W. ABRAMS Ph.B.
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APRIL 22, 1915
Honorable Thaddeus C. Sweet, Speaker of the Assembly, Assem- bly Chamber, Albany, N. Y .:
SIR - Pursuant to law, the annual report of the State His- torian is herewith submitted to the Legislature.
Very respectfully yours ST CLAIR MCKELWAY Chancellor of the University JOHN H. FINLEY President of the University and Commissioner of Education [3]
The University of the State of New York
Office of the State Historian, April 22, 1915
Honorable John H. Finley, President of the University
DEAR SIR: I take pleasure in transmitting herewith, as a part of the State Historian's annual report, and in recommending for early publication, Ecclesiastical Records, State of New York, Volume VII, Index.
Such an index has for years been demanded by students of the early Dutch records of New York. In response to that demand authority was granted me by your predecessor, the late Honorable Andrew S. Draper, to secure the preparation of an index, thus making more readily available a large store of historic material contained in the six volumes heretofore issued under the auspices of the State Historian. The work was performed under legisla- tive sanction by the late Reverend Edward T. Corwin D.D., the original compiler of the printed records.
I desire here to acknowledge our indebtedness to A. J. F. vanLaer, State Archivist, for some helpful hints regarding this index, and for his additions to the list of ministers in Brazil.
Owing to your expressed desire to have an expert collation made of the pagination of the index in manuscript, with the printed books, the appearance of this work has been delayed until the present time. It is believed, however, that its value to scholars has been greatly enhanced by this collation and review.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
Yours very sincerely JAMES AUSTIN HOLDEN
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PREFACE
The present volume is the outcome of efforts begun by the Honorable Hugh Hastings while State Historian. The Ecclesi- astical Records of the State of New York were originally com- piled under the auspices of the State Historian by the Reverend Edward T. Corwin D.D. Litt.D., who was well fitted for the task by reason of his familiarity with the Dutch language, and by his personal acquaintance with the ecclesiastical authorities in Hol- land, where he lived for some time. The General Synol of the Reformed Dutch church originally started this work, and through its generosity much of this valuable material relating to the ecclesiastical history of New York State, and including every denomination from the earliest Dutch times, has been secured for the students of religious history.1 The first and second volumes of these records were published in 1901, the third and fourth in 1902 and the fifth and sixth in 1905. It was the original inten- tion of both Mr Hastings and Doctor Corwin to complete this valu- able and monumental work by the addition of a proper index. In their present condition, except to the student who is possessed of infinite patience and an abundance of time, a great deal of the value of these really interesting and important documents is lost. As has been stated, they are not merely a compilation of the reports of the Reformed Dutch churches in America to the Classis of Amsterdam, but through their collateral references, selected from the contemporary written records either in manuscript or printed form, they contain the history of nearly every religious denomination then prominent in the New World, having more especial relation to those to be found within the boundaries of New York as a colony, and likewise as a state from 1621 to 1810.
Through the efforts of Mr Hastings, an item was placed in the supply bill of 1907 calling for an appropriation of $1500 for preparing a suitable index for the Ecclesiastical Records. Dur- ing the compilation and preparation of these records, Doctor Corwin acquired a great deal of index material and made ready therefore to enter upon the final part of the work.
1 For the history of the procurement of copies of the Ecclesiastical Records from Holland and other sources, see 1:5-31.
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In the summer of 1907, Mr Hastings was succeeded by the Honorable Victor H. Paltsits. The appropriation was allowed to lapse, and nothing further was done in the matter until the acces- sion to office of the present State Historian.
Soon after he took office, in May 1911, he began to receive letters from prominent ecclesiastics and students of the early colonial period asking that the work on the index of these Ecclesi- astical Records might be completed. These letters urging publica- tion have been continued up to the present, showing that interest in the index has by no means died out. Taking the matter up, the State Historian found that, regardless of the fact that the work had been stopped officially, Doctor Corwin had continued his labors on the index for his own use, and believed that it could be finished within a year's time. Meanwhile the office of the State Historian had by legislative action been incorporated into the body of the Education Department as the Division of History. The State Historian, as chief of that division, then procured the consent of the late Commissioner of Education, the Honorable Andrew S. Draper, to place in the supply bill for 1912 an item, which was later approved by Governor John A. Dix, for the employment of an expert to prepare an index to the Ecclesiastical Records at an expense not exceeding $500, this being the amount which, in his desire to have the undertaking properly completed, Doctor Corwin agreed to accept, and he at once started on the work of making the index.
The time, strength and ability which Doctor Corwin devoted to this work, no less than the cash contribution in the difference between the original and the later appropriation, merit the com- mendation and praise of historical students and all others inter- ested in preserving in permanent form the annals of our common- wealth. It is much to be regretted that Doctor Corwin did not live long enough to see the result of all his work in print.
The index was completed in June 1913, and is at last, after unavoidable delays and a complete and expert collation as to its pagination with the text as printed, submitted in this form to the public, with the hope that students of the colonial period will find it a key to a more complete knowledge than is now possessed of the civil, educational and ecclesiastical affairs of those early days. JAMES AUSTIN HOLDEN
Albany, N. Y., December 8, 1915 State Historian
REVEREND EDWARD TANJORE CORWIN D.D. LITT.D.
Born July 12, 1834, died June 22, 1914
A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH BY HIS SON, REVEREND CHARLES E.
CORWIN
The Reverend E. T. Corwin D.D. Litt.D., the discoverer and editor of the Ecclesiastical Records of the State of New York, was born in New York City on July 12, 1834. On his father's side he was descended from the Puritans of New England, while through his mother he was related to the Dutch founders of New Netherland.
Doctor Corwin's youth was passed in the metropolis, whose his- tory he knew so well and in whose affairs he was so much inter- ested. He was graduated in 1853 in the first class sent out by the College of the City of New York. In 1856 he was graduated from the Seminary of the Reformed Church at New Brunswick, New Jersey. After a year spent in special linguistic studies, he was ordained and was for six years, 1857-63, the pastor of the Reformed Church of Paramus, New Jersey. His chief pastorate, of twenty-five years, was spent at Millstone, New Jersey. In 1888 he became the rector of Hertzog Hall of the Reformed Church Seminary at New Brunswick, New Jersey. Seven years later he accepted a call from the Reformed Church of Greenport, New York. He served in this, his last pastorate, from 1895 to 1897. In the latter year he was sent by the General Synod of the Reformed church to Holland on a mission of historical ex- ploration. The results of his discoveries in the archives of the Classis of Amsterdam and elsewhere are embodied in the Ecclesi- astical Records of the State of New York. After his return to America he devoted himself entirely to literary work. He resided, first at New Brunswick, and, after the death of his wife, in 1905, with his son at North Branch, New Jersey. He died there, very suddenly, on June 22, 1914.
Doctor Corwin was born with a genius for historical research. As a boy it was his delight, when visiting in the country, to copy
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the inscription on ancestral tombstones. His genealogical studies bore fruit in the Corwin Genealogy, 1872, one of the first books of its class. This work was constructed on a plan original with the author, but since widely copied. In each of his pastorates he became immediately interested in local church and town history. The results of these studies were preserved in published discourses, all of which at once became standards for their class.
For ten years, during his pastorate at Millstone, he received into his home and educated for college, Japanese students. These young men were sent by their government to obtain a western education. Several of them have risen to positions of power and honor in the Sunrise Kingdom.
From the beginning of his ministry he took an interest in the history and larger relations of his own denomination. The Manual of the Reformed Church in America was the result. The first edition of this work, published in 1858, was a small book of one hundred sixty-six pages. A second edition, much larger, ap- peared in 1869. An edition still further enlarged was issued in 1879. The last edition, of ten hundred eighty-two pages, was published in 1902. This work is unique among church manuals. There is no other denomination in the country which has so much information in regard to its ministry and churches in so acces- sible a form. A Digest of Synodical Legislation of the Reformed Church in America, brought out in 1906, was the by-product of many years of toil.
It was, however, in the discovery and editing of the Amsterdam Correspondence, incorporated in the Ecclesiastical Records of the State of New York, that Doctor Corwin's historical instincts were most fully revealed. In Holland his ability to find what existed, and to find out about what had been lost, amounted to a peculiar genius. As the hart pants for the water brooks; so he searched for documents of the Dutch colonial period until he found them. The present index, completed by Doctor Corwin, but not issued before his death, brought to conclusion these valuable historical labors.
Besides these major works, he was the author of innumerable essays and magazine articles on historical and biblical subjects, and coeditor in the preparation of several important volumes. He left, unfinished, an elaborate History of the Collegiate Church of
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New York City upon which he had been engaged for several years. During the last few months of his life, he had in preparation for the American Society of Church History a list, with sketches, of all the ministers of all denominations who served in the Middle States before 1800. He was at work upon this list on the day he died.
Doctor Corwin's genius was a genius for hard work. His indus- try was tireless and he had an infinite capacity for taking pains. Not by sudden inspiration but by patient toil did he accomplish so much. To those who knew him personally, the historical scholar was merged in the conscientious, kindly man. He was absolutely upright in his dealings with his fellows, and justice was con- tinually passing into mercy. Each of his pastorates especially that at Millstone, was solidly successful. He was greatly loved by multitudes whom he served in the ministerial office. Although more than twenty-five years had passed since he left Millstone, a delegation of about fifty of his old parishioners made the journey to North Branch to attend his funeral.
His body was laid to rest beside that of his beloved wife in the cemetery at Paramus, New Jersey. This cemetery he himself laid out, near the old stone church of his first pastorate.
INTRODUCTION
An index to the Ecclesiastical Records of the State of New York has been a desideratum ever since the sixth volume of the work was issued, in 1905. These records bring together a larger number of the ecclesiastical documents of the colonial period relating to New York and New Jersey than any other single col- lection. The original design of the enterprise was to gather the documents of the Reformed Dutch church as the oldest denomina- tion in the State. But as the work progressed it seemed desirable to bring in collateral documents of other religious bodies, because the documents of one denomination throw light on those of other bodies of the same period, the external circumstances being iden- tical. The different bodies were also often so intermingled in their relations or contentions that the history of one could not be well understood without dealing with the history of the others.
Until nearly the close of the seventeenth century, however, there were few other religious bodies to deal with than the Reformed Dutch church. There were, indeed, scattered Congregational and Presbyterian churches on Long Island, in Westchester county and in New Jersey, but until after 1700 these were few in number, separate and independent. Nevertheless, not infrequent refer- ences to them will be found in these Records. There were also before 1700 a few Lutheran churches on this territory, but the principal early development of this body was in Pennsylvania. There were also Friends or Quakers and several other varieties of Christians, as well as a few Jews, all of whom will be more or less frequently alluded to. The early French Catholic mission- aries from Canada in central New York and the French Hugue- nots in several different localities are not forgotten.
The Anglican church does not come into distinctive view, except a few references to chaplains of British troops, until the founding of Trinity Church in New York City in 1697. Before this date there were no Episcopal churches in New York or New Jersey. The ministry bill of 1693 was for the support of a " good sufficient Protestant minister," but it was limited in its
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application to six localities, and these were in only four counties out of the ten which then existed in New York. While English governors claimed that this bill established the Anglican church, its language was so indefinite that its meaning and application were subjects of dispute and litigation down to the Revolution. With the organization in London, in 1701, of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, Anglican ministers begon to be sent over and Anglican churches established. Before the American Revolution this society sent fifty-nine ministers to New York and forty-four to New Jersey, one hundred three in all, and founded from thirty to forty churches on this territory. Some of these ministers were missionaries to the Indians. Allu- sions will be found in these Records to most if not all of these.
About twenty German Reformed churches were also founded on this territory before 1776. The Reformed Dutch church, how- ever, was the original and principal factor. It founded more than a hundred churches, which were served by more than a hundred ministers during the colonial period. The allusions to these men and organizations are abundant.
The connection of education and religion will also be found fre- quently alluded to in these volumes, especially facts relating to the origin of Kings (Columbia) College in New York, and to Queens (Rutgers) College in New Jersey. There are also not a few allu- sions to Princeton College. Items of interest relating to the churches in the Revolutionary struggle are referred to, and espe- cially the subsequent steps of reorganization of the denominations under the new American conditions. The index to these Records, herewith given to the public, will greatly facilitate investigations relating to the churches and schools of colonial times. These vol- umes, even before they had an index, were the source of new works upon American ecclesiastical history, with several magazine articles on education.
ERRATA ET CORRIGENDA
This apparently extensive list of errata may need a word of explanation. Some of these corrections are of errors of classical clerks in Holland; some, of governors or other officials who, in making their reports, misapprehended the facts; some are errors of old translations which were incorporated in this work; some are editorial, but most are typographical. It is remarkable, how- ever, that in a work of such magnitude, embracing six volumes and 4413 pages, and dealing with many strange names, the errata average only one error to twenty-seven pages.
VOLUME I
The figures at the left are page numbers.
19, tenth line from bottom: for the second word, " Guiana " read " Guinea ". 25, 38, 66-67: Michaelius was sent to Manhattan by the Consistory of Amsterdam, not by the Classis of Enkhuysen, as said. See Article, " Amster- dam, Holland, Church and Consistory of," in this index.
33, sixth line from bottom: for "East Laenen " read " East Zaenen ".
34, third line from bottom: instead of "1623 " read " 1628 ". Last line: for " 1644 " read " 1844 ".
35, line 7: instead of "thirty " read "fifty "; line 9: instead of "five hundred " read " three hundred ".
36, top line: " doop school " should be " dorp school," village school.
52, third line from bottom in the Dutch column: for "Minuits " read " Michaelius ".
77 : the words " Malay-Japanese " probably mean " Malay-Javanese ".
83: for "Cleyerus " read " Clevius ".
122, fourth line: for "Aug. 4, 1673 " read "Aug. 4, 1637". For this date compare: W. H. Kilpatrick, The Dutch Schools of New Netherland and Colonial New York, Wash. 1912, p. 39-50.
148: Zloahar should read Eleazar. See page 240.
187, under paragraph about Denton: for "1636" read " 1656 ".
187: "Historical Collections of the State of New York, iii" should be " Collections of the New York Historical Society, second series, III.137-160". 245, eighth and ninth lines from bottom: " West Friesland " should be " Friesland and Stadt en Lande (Groningen)". West Friesland refers to the northern part of the province of North Holland and is the same as the " North Quarter " (Noorder Kwartier) .
249, third line from bottom: for " letters to New Netherland " read " from New Netherland ".
254: "O'Callaghan's History of New Netherland, Vol. 97 " should be " Vol.
2, p. 97 ".
257, eighth line: for " daughter, by his first wife " read Bogardus's " step- daughter ".
277 : for " Stichtenhorst " read " Slichtenhorst ".
278, middle of page: for "Sent to New Netherland " read " Changes in New Netherland ".
335, below middle of page: for "Jewish merchants " read "Jewish mer- chant "; for " this spring " read " early part of this year " [int voorjaar].
357: for " Officially " read " Officials ".
443, ninth line from bottom: for 'propenenten " read "proponenten."
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447, near bottom: for " secretaries " read " sectaries ".
464: omit " Rev." before John More.
468, near top of page: for "Plairenis " read " Proëlius ". See page 466.
472, near middle of page: for "New Amsterdam " read "Amsterdam ".
482, below middle of page: for "Nysser " read "Nyssen "; for "Hyber " read " Hibon ".
515: for " preached " read " preacher ".
532: for " Letscoren " read " Zetscoren ".
551, in last paragraph of Selyns' letter: for " when Domine Megapolensis arrives " read " since Domine [Samuel] Megapolensis has arrived ".
564, seventh line: for "for the meeting " read " from the meeting ". 582, fifth line: for "Vinckins " read " Vinkius ".
586, second line from bottom: for "Meyed " read " Meyer ".
608, last line: for "Van Fricht " read " Van Tricht ".
610, ninth line from bottom: for "Van Fricht " read " Van Tricht."
610, fourteenth line from bottom: for "In this may we" read "In this way we ".
617, eighth and ninth lines: for " Paulas Hendrichsz vander Grift, elder, and Ernest Van Trijht " read "Paulus Leendersz, van der Grift, elder, and Garret Van Tricht ".
626, eighth line: for " Elbing " read " Ebbingh ".
627, near middle of page: for "1672 " read "1674 ".
660, fourth line: for "Anthony " read "Arensius ".
678, ninth and nineteenth lines from bottom: for " Heer Van Goph " read " Heer van Gogh ".
VOLUME II
748, near middle of page: for " Dewyer " read " DeMeyer ".
762, middle of page: for "Raay " read "Kaay " or "Kay ".
796, seventh line from bottom: omit " (or Stoffel ?) ".
801, seventh line from bottom: fill out line with "by Peter Jacobszen Marius, elder ". See page 781.
804: the date "1682, March 29." seems inconsistent with the date " 1682, Nov. 15." on page 841, and the remark about the building of a parson- age on page 866.
844: for " 1682 " read " 1683 ".
879, eighth line: add after " parsonage ", " at Jamaica ".
879, date of Dongan's report, for "1684" read "1687 "; the date of the third paragraph, "The principal towns " is 1684, but the date of the fourth paragraph, "Every town ", is 1687. See 1436.
900, second paragraph, second line: for "demission " read " dismission "; so again in the fifth and sixth paragraphs.
936, fifth line: for " a Schuyt (boat ?)" read "a Sluyter ". See "Sluyter " in index.
949, second line: for "Long Island " read "Staten Island ". Compare page 922.
958, a better translation, tenth to twenty-second lines: "His excellency. Sir Edward Andros, Governor at Boston, who has now also entered upon the government of New York and New Jersey, having in charge the country from Canada to Pennsylvania, belongs to the Church of England. He understands, however, both Dutch and French and attends my [Selyns'] preaching, and that also of M. Daillé. The rising thunderburst of schismatic Labadism, and the bruta et brutalia lightning of fantastic Quakerism, have mostly vanished, without more ado, into smoke. Vorseman and his company em- brace, at the most, only twelve Labadistic apostles, and are laboring to fill up their graveyard at New Bohemia, [Md.]. It, [the sect] will all finally come to naught ".
984, sixth line: read " presumably by Leisler, that Nicholson would murder all the attendants " etc.
1041, fourth line from bottom: for " deained " read " detained ".
1046, for "New York, 1692, Nov. 10", read "New York, 1693, Nov. 10th ".
1074, for " Westchester, Kings and Queens " read " Westchester, Richmond and Queens ".
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1101: transfer the whole section under "License to collect funds ", etc. to page 1168.
1180, fourth line: for "Christopher streets " read "Canal street ". In note on Trinity Churchyard, the sentence, " . . is the most ancient cemetery . sections of the yard ", contains three errors of fact. It is not " the most ancient cemetery "; it was not "established by the Dutch at their first settle- ment "; and it is not "nearly a century older than other portions of the yard ". For a correct statement about cemeteries in Manhattan, see "Burial places " in this index.
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