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MINISINK VALLEY REFORMED DUTCH CHURCH RECORDS, 1716-1830
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DOM. GEORGE WILHELM MANCIUS (1706-1762) Co-Pastor with Dom. Petrus Vas at Kingston Dutch Church, 1732. Missionary to the Minisink District
Minisinh Dalley Reformed Dutch Church Records
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PRESIDENT,
FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT,
CLARENCE WINTHROP BOWEN WILLIAM BRADHURST OSGOOD FIELD
SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT, . WILLIAM ISAAC WALKER HENRY RUSSELL DROWNE
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Executive Committee
ABRAHAM HATFIELD, JR., Chairman
WILLIAM BRADHURST OSGOOD FIELD
GEORGE AUSTIN MORRISON, JR.
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WILLIAM ISAAC WALKER
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Minisinh Dalley Reformed Dutch Church Records
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RECORDS
Minisinh Machachemech Church Record.
Pages
Baptisms by Dom. Petrus Vas, 1716 to 1719, 97 to 98
Baptisms and Births, 1737 to 1803, 98 to 219 Marriages, 1738 to 1797, . 265 to 278
Church Members, 1745 to 1791, . . 281 to 285
Minisinh Church Record.
Baptisms and Births, 1805 to 1816, . . 219 to 230
Machachemeck Church Record.
Baptisms and Births, 1803 to 1827,
. 231 to 264
Marriages, 1804 to 1825, .
. 278 to 280
Walpeck Church Record
Baptisms and Births, 1741 to 1830,
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I to 92
Marriages, 1741 to 1769,
· 92 to 94
With portrait of Dom. George Wilhelm Mancius
EDITED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION, BY ROYDEN WOODWARD VOSBURGH
NEW YORK PRINTED FOR THE SOCIETY
1913
LIMITED EDITION 100 numbered and signed copies No. New York Genealogical and Biographical Society
Henry Parell Drowne)
Secretary
INTRODUCTION
It is not within the limits of this introduction to recite in detail the story of the earliest visits of the Dutch, in the region generally termed as the Minisink valley. The first occupation was for the purpose of conducting mining operations. It is probable that these operations were commenced during the time of the Dutch occupa- tion of New York; and they may have been continued secretly for a time, after the colony was transferred to the English. It seems quite clear that the first occupation has no connection with the settlement of the valley, by the way of Kingston, which commenced about the year 1690. We quote here from Eager's History of Orange County, giving the recollections of some of the settlers, who were old men in 1787 ; as a whole, we believe this to be as authentic a story of the earliest history of the region as can be briefly pre- sented.
"We place before the reader a copy of a letter from Hazard's Register, written by Samuel Preston, Esq., which will throw much light upon the point of early settlement in the Minisink country, by whom and when made, and be far more satisfactory than anything we could say. * * *
Copy of Letters from Sam'l Preston, Esq., dated Stockport, June 6 & 14, 1828.
MINISINK, MINEHOLES, &C.
In 1787 the writer went on his first surveying tour into Northampton County ; he was deputed under John Lukens, Surveyor General, and received from him, by way of instructions, the following narrative respecting the settlement of Minisink on the Delaware, above Kittanny and Blue Mountain :
That the settlement was formed for a long time before it was known to the Government in Philadelphia. That when the Government was informed of the settlement, they passed a law in 1729 that any such purchases of the Indians should be void; and the purchasers indicted for forcible entry and detainer, according to the law of England. That in 1730 they appointed an agent to go and investigate the facts; that the agent so appointed was the famous Surveyor, Nicholas Scull; that he, James Lukens, was N. Scull's apprentice to carry chain and learn surveying. That as they both understood and could talk Indian, they hired Indian guides, and had a fatiguing journey, there being then no white inhabitants in the upper part of Bucks or North- ampton County. That they had very great difficulty to lead their horses through the water gap to Minisink flats, which were all settled with Hol- landers; with several they could only be understood in Indian. At the ven- erable Depuis's they found great hospitality and plenty of the necessaries of life. J. Lukens said that the first thing which struck his attention was a grove of apple-trees of size far beyond any near Philadelphia. That as N. Scull and himself examined the banks, they were fully of opinion that all those flats had at some very former age been a deep lake before the river broke through the mountain, and that the best interpretation they could make of Minisink was, the water is gone. That S. Depuis told them when the rivers were frozen he had a good road to Esopus, near Kingston, from the
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Mineholes, on the Mine road, some hundred miles. That he took his wheat and cider there for salt and necessaries, and did not appear to have any knowledge or idea where the river ran-Philadelphia market-or being in the government of Pennsylvania.
They were of opinion that the first settlements of Hollanders in Mini- sink were many years older than William Penn's charter, and that S. Dupuis had treated them so well they concluded to make a survey of his claim, in order to befriend him if necessary. When they began to survey, the Indians gathered around; an old Indian laid his hand on N. Scull's shoulder and said, "Put up iron string, go home." They then quit and returned.
I had it in charge from John Lukens to learn more particulars respect- ing the Mine road to Esopus, &c. I found Nicholas Dupuis, Esq., son of Samuel, living in a spacious stone house in great plenty and affluence. The old Mineholes were a few miles above, on the Jersey side of the river by the lower point of Paaquarry Flat; that the Minisink settlement extended forty miles or more on both sides of the river. That he had well known the Mine road to Esopus, and used before he opened the boat channel through Foul Rift, to drive on it several times every winter with loads of wheat and cider, as did also his neighbors, to purchase their salt and neces- saries in Esopus, having then no other market or knowledge where the river ran to. That after a navigable channel was opened through Foul Rift they generally took to boating, and most of the settlement turned their trade down stream, the Mine road became less and less traveled.
This interview with the amiable Nicholas Dupuis, Esq., was in June, 1787. He then appeared about sixty years of age. I interrogated as to the particulars of what he knew, as to when and by whom the Mine road was made, what was the ore they dug and hauled on it, what was the date, and from whence, or how, came the first settlers of Minisink in such great numbers as to take up all the flats on both sides of the river for forty miles. He could only give traditionary accounts of what he had heard from older people, without date, in substance as follows:
That in some former age there came a company of miners from Holland ; supposed, from the great labor expended in making that road, about one hundred miles long, that they were very rich or great people, in working the two mines,-one on the Delaware where the mountain nearly approaches the lower point of Paaquarry Flat, the other at the north foot of the same mountain, near half way from the Delaware and Esopus. He ever under- stood that abundance of ore had been hauled on that road, but never could learn whether lead or silver. That the first settlers came from Holland to seek a place of quiet, being persecuted for their religion. I believe they were Armenians. They followed the Mine road to the large flats on the Delaware. That smooth, cleared land suited their views. That they bona fide bought the improvements from the native Indians, most of whom then moved to the Susquehanna; that with such as remained there was peace till 1755.
I then went to view the Paaquarry Mineholes. There appeared to have been a great abundance of labor done there at some former time, but the mouths of these holes were caved full, and overgrown with bushes. I con- cluded to myself if there ever had been a rich mine under the mountain it must be there yet in close confinement. The other older men I conversed with gave their traditions similar to N. Dupuis, and they all appeared to be grandsons of the first settlers, and very ignorant as to dates and things relating to chronology. In the summer of 1789 I began to build on this place; then came two venerable gentlemen on a surveying expedition .- They were the late Gen. James Clinton, the father of the late De Witt Clinton, and Christopher Tappan, Esq., Clerk and Recorder of Ulster County .- For many years before, they had both been surveyors under Gen. Clinton's father, when he was surveyor general. In order to learn some history from gentlemen of their general knowledge, I accompanied them in the woods. They both well knew the Mineholes, Mine road, &c., and as there were no kind of documents or records thereof, united in the opinion that it was
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a work transacted while the State of New York belonged to the govern- ment of Holland; that it fell to the English in 1664; and that the change in government stopped the mining business, and that the road must have been made many years before such digging could have been done. That it un- doubtedly must have been the first good road of that extent made in any part of the United States."
The "Minisink country" consists of the valley of the Neversink, west of the Shawangunk Mountains, and the Delaware valley, as far as tlie Delaware Water Gap. The first settlements of which au- thentic knowledge can be ascertained were made about 1690, at what was later called the Upper Neighborhood, near Cuddebackville. A few years later more families came, and the settlements stretched further down the Neversink valley, to the junction with the Dela- ware; in later years the valley between Huguenot and Port Jervis was known as the Lower Neighborhood. The Neversink river was then called the Machackemeck, and the valley between Cuddeback- ville and Port Jervis was often spoken of as Peenpack. The earliest Patents in this neighborhood were the Waghaghkemeck* Patent, Oct. 14, 1697; the Minisink Patent, Aug. 28, 1704, which confirmed the Indian deed of 1702, and several other patents of less importance, which need not be enumerated here. The Waghaghkemeck* Patent was granted to Jacob Cuddeback, Thomas Swartwout, Anthony Swartwout, Bernardus Swartwout, Jan Tys, Peter Guimar and David Jamison. The settlers in the Minisink valley were Dutch, French Huguenots and English.
The first minister of the Gospel among the settlers in the Min- isink was the Rev. Petrus Vas, of Kingston. The earliest baptisms that he administered will be found in the records of the Kingston Dutch Reformed Church. Sixteen of the baptisms administered by Vas will not be found in the Kingston record. They cover the years 1716 to 1719, and were obtained from some source (probably from Vas) by Domine Johannes Casparus Fryenmoet, and recorded by him on page 15 of the Minisink-Machackemeck record in the year 1745 and numbered by him as baptismal entries 206 to 221. When George Wilhelmus Mancius arrived in the Province of New York, excepting a short stay in New Jersey, he took up work in the congregations of Ulster county, and soon he became the colleague of Vas, at Kingston and its allied churches. His scholarly accom- plishments which enabled him to speak Dutch, French, English and German, were of great advantage to him in his labors in the Mini- sink. He was the prime mover in the religious work, which resulted in the establishing of four Dutch Reformed churches in the Minisink
* Or Maghaghkemeck.
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valley. A part of the records of three of these churches has been transcribed in this volume. And it is our purpose here to outline the history of these four churches, to show the sites that they have oc- cupied, and to cite briefly the group of secondary churches that have grown out of them.
THE MINISINK CHURCH.
The first entries in the Minisink-Machackemeck record are in the handwriting of the Rev. George Wilhelmus Mancius. They extend from Aug. 23, 1737, to Sept. 19, 1740, occupying pages 3 to IO in the original record, and being numbered as baptismal entries I to 102; see pages 98 to 103 in this volume. The title page of the Minisink-Machackemeck record, which should be on page 97 of this volume, is as follows :
* Kerkelyk protocoll voor de gemeente van Menissing beginnende met den jaar 1737 d. 23 August.
Kerken Boek Van Den gemeenten Van Minissink en Magagkamack.
The Property of the Prot. Refd. Dutch Church Deer Park, Classis of Orange, N. Y. July 1844. Geo. P. Van Wyck, Pastor.
The first title was written by Domine George Wilhelmus Mancius; the second by Domine Johannes Casparus Fryenmoet. The facts brought out by the title page and by the handwriting on it, seem to be sufficient to warrant the supposition that the Minisink church was the senior of the four churches, and for this reason it is taken up first. The only act of Consistory recorded in the hand of Domine Mancius is generally supposed to have been passed at the first meeting, when the organization of the churches was effected. A translation of it follows :
"Whereas, some among us are unwilling to remunerate the minister who is coming to officiate among us and yet wish to avail themselves of his services, it was approved and resolved by the Consistory: That every one dwelling among us requiring the services of the minister shall pay for the baptism of a child six shillings, and those who live without our bounds shall pay for the baptism of a child three shillings. Signed in behalf of others.
GEORG WILHELM MANCIUS. Done in Consistory, August 23, 1737."
It should be noted that the name Machackemeck does not appear in this record during the ministry of Domine Mancius.
* Translation : Ecclesiastic record for the congregation of Menissing. beginning with the year 1737, the 23rd of August. Church Book of the congregations of Minissink and Magagkamack.
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The Minisink church was about eight miles below Port Jervis, on the Old Mine Road, in the present township of Montague, Sussex county, N. J. The name Minisink was applied locally by the settlers to the tract of land in the vicinity of this church, extending prin- cipally to the southwest. It was also known as the Nominack or Namanach church, deriving this name from the parsonage, which was located about three miles below it on the Old Mine Road. The site of the church was about abreast of the northernmost point of Minisink island, where the Delaware river forks. It is about a quarter of a mile below the cross roads where an old building stands, formerly a store kept by Judge Stull and now a tavern known as the "brick store." There is a sharp bend in the road, which swings from a southeasterly to a northeasterly direction, and on the river side sloping down towards river bed, lies the land once occupied by the ancient Minisink church and burying ground. The ground is thickly wooded with trees of between fifteen and twenty-five years' growth, and is overgrown with dense underbrush. The site would hardly be discernible in passing along the road, were it not for one or two badly neglected modern gravestones, which lie at the turn of the road, so near the highway that they might easily be taken for mile- stones. Further back among the trees some twenty rough field stones remain, marking as many graves. They are flat stones, prob- ably from the river bed, and the traces of inscriptions are only evi- dent on one or two of them. There are also in this graveyard about six modern marble stones, bearing dates 1824, 1825 and 1853. A considerable number of the legible gravestones, formerly here, were transferred to the newer cemetery behind the present church, in Montague village, which is about three quarters of a mile along the road, in a northeasterly direction. Among the stones transferred to the newer cemetery, are a number of Westbrook family stones, bear- ing dates shortly after 1800.
It is difficult to fix the date when the old Minisink church ceased to be used for the purpose of Divine service. On two occasions the Minisink congregation petitioned the New Jersey Legislature for per- mission to hold a lottery to raise money to pay off the indebtedness upon their church, resulting from repairs to the church edifice and parsonage. The first petition was dated Oct. 16, 1795, Thomas Kyte being allowed £1:05:09, in the Donation Account of the Minisink Corporation under date of Oct. 31, 1795, "to go to Trenton to advo- cate a petition for a church lottery before the Assembly to pay the arrears of the church building and parsonage, &c." The second
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petition was dated Oct. 9, 1804. It would appear that a number of years intervened between the time that the old church became un- tenantable, by reason of age and want of repair, and the time that the second church was erected in about the year 1827. Information concerning the date of the erection of the second church very in- definite; however the county records of Sussex county were not examined. It seems quite certain that during this interval this con- gregation worshiped in the Shapanack church .* The minutes of the Minisink Consistory contain nothing definite about the date of the erection of the second church, although the date of the sale of the old church is mentioned. There are no minutes between Sept. 5, 1797, and July 14, 1816.
The first book of the Minisink church record was also used by the Machackemeck church. The baptisms appearing in this book are transcribed in this volume, covering pages 97 to 230; the marriages, covering pages 265 to 278. For additional items not included in this volume, see translation of this record by Rev. J. B. Ten Eyck, pub- iished by W. H. Nearpass, Port Jervis, N. Y., 1877. Abstract of items omitted in this volume :
Minutes of Consistory, Aug. 23, 1737 to Feb. 16, 1792. Act of Subordination, signed by Church Officers, Apr. 16, 1745 to Apr. 19, 1755.
Members of Consistory, 1741 to 1750.
List of members received in Machackemeck church by Rev. Elias Van Bunschooten, on Oct. 12, 1787, from a piece of paper, not a part of the record book.
The proper title of this book should be the Minisink-Machacke- meck record, as it was the joint record of the two churches, from 1741 to 1803; from 1805 until it ends in 1816, it is the record of the Minisink church alone. The last meeting of the Consistory recorded in Low Dutch in this book, is translated by Ten Eyck as follows :
"The Reverend Consistory being assembled together in fear of the Lord, February 16, 1792, at the house of Joannes D. Westbrook, after prayer it was resolved to become incorporated in pursuance of the Act of the State of New Jersey, and for this end that we unanimously sign a short application to be enrolled in the Register Book of the County of Sussex, in the above mentioned State."
The second book of records of the Minisink church (now the only one in their possession), was the minute book of the Corpora- tion and Consistory, and was commenced in the year 1792. The following extracts are copied from this book :
"Records of the Elders and Deacons of the Church of Menesing incor- porated the first day of March 1792 as may be seen in the Records in Clerk's Office in the County of Sussex Rhodes Clk. as also may be viewed in the church records of Menesing dated February 16, 1792."
* For Shapanack church see page xix.
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"Succession of Consistory and their Acts. There has been a succession of Elders and Deacons in the Church of Menessing from August 23, 1737 to May the II, 1785 when the combined Consistories of Walpeck, Menesing, and Magagkameck, viz.
Isaac Van Campen Joannes Decker Hendrick Wm. Cortrecht Joannes C. Westbrook Hendericus Decker Jesias Cortrecht William Ennes Frederick Van Demerck J. R. Dewitt Simon Westfall Harmanus Van Emwigen Jacob D. Gumaar Elias Cortrecht Thomas Kyte
made a Call on the Rvd. Elias Van Bunschooten then Minister of the Gos- pel of Schachtkook who accepted of the Menesing Call the 9th of July next following and was installed by the Revd. Jacob R. Hardenbergh the 29 of August 1785 and also at the same time by the above mentioned Consist- ories received as their lawful Minister of the Gospel as may be seen in Mene- sing church records."
"On a meeting of the Consistory of Menesing Church the 16 Febru- ary 1792. Present Elias Van Bunschooten After calling on the name of God they thought for several reasons that it was best to be incorporated : and for that purpose, at the same time, signed a certifacate which is recorded by Rhodes Clerk of the County of Sussex of the State of New Jersey the Ist of March, 1792." Joannes D. Westbrook Gysbert Sutfin Joannes Van Etten Abraham Westfal Cornelius Cole Benjamin Fisher Gedeon Cole Jeremiah Van Demerck
"July 14th, 1816 the surviving members of the Consistory together with the male members of this Congregation met at the house of Mr. Stool* the meeting was opened with prayers by the Rev. Charles Hardenbergh.
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