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1732.
The following are the names of the Subscribers to the fund for building the church, the amount pledged and the number of Sit Places or single sittings awarded to each, after the building was completed.
3
21.
€
S
MEN'S SRATS
WOMAN'S
SEATS
MEN'S
WOMAN'S
Amerman Johannis.
2
5
I
J
9
Albertson Nicholas.
I
5
I
3
Brinckerhoff Abraham. . .
2
5
I
I
7,9
Bennet Jeromus
2
5
I
I
9
7, 8,
No. 6-1 No. 10-7
Cusyou Johannes
2
5
I
I
8
No. 9-7
Dur Land Jan
2
5
I
I
9
No. 8-6
Ditmasse Douwe
4 10
2
2
4, 5,
No. 1-2 No. 5-1
Gerretse Abraham
4|10
2
2
7, 10,
No. 7-5 No. 7-8
Hegeman Adrian
8
4
3 1, 2, 6, 13
No. 1-I No. 1-3 No. 3-7
Hegeman Peteres. Haff Juryen
4 10 IO
2
3 2, 10,
Haff Jacob
4
IO
2
2 4, 13,
Haff Jan
2
5
I
I
6,
No. 6-4
Hardenberg Henderecus
2
5
1
I
8
No. 4-2
Hoogland Cornelis
2
5
I
I
IO
Hoogland Willem.
2
I
I
IO
No. 6-7
Janse Steven.
4
IO
2
2
5, 13
Koole Barent
3 5
I
2
5,
No. 9-6 No. 10-4
Loyse Symen
8
4
3 6, 6, 10, 13
Luister Peter
6 15
3
3 2, 6, 13
Lickquier Jan
2
5
I
I
9
Monfoort Jacobus
6,15 3
3 2, 3, 13,
No. 10-I
Monfoort Jacobus Jr.
2
5
I
I
3
No. 2-2
Monfoort Peter.
2
5
I
I
5
No, 2-3
Monfoort Eidae
2
Millear Jost ..
2
I
I
No. 2-7
Noortstrant Daniel
2
5 5
I
I
7 9 S
I 10, 7,
No. 10-6 No. 7-4
Ryerse Cornelis
I
I
Remsen Isack
2
I
I
5 8
No. 6-6
Remsen Jan
I
5
I
IO
Reyde Steven
2 IO
I
I
I,
No. 2-5
Snedecer Gerret
2.IO I
I
13,
No. 4-8
Snedecer Gerret Jr
2
5
I
I
IO
Symense Frederick
2
Symense Mouris
2
I
I
No. 2-6
Schenck Minne
2
5
I
I
No. 1-6
Schenck Roelef.
I
5
I
2
Vannortstrant Jacob.
2
5
I
I
3
No. 4-1
Vannortstrant Allebert ..
2
5
I
I
5
Vanwyck Theodoris.
2
5
. .
2
5
Vanvores Lucas.
2
5
2
I
Vanvores Abrahan
2
5
I
I
Vanvores Willem
2
5
I
I
13, 6, 3.
No. 6-2 No. 8-8 No. 2-8
Wallters Willem
2
5
I
I
Woertman Jan.
3
I
2
Willse Martien.
2
I
I
4,
No. 3-3
Total.
163
75
70
No. 9-3
Onderdonck Adriaen.
2
5
I
I
No. 3-5
Onderdonck Anderies I
5
I
· Polhemius Cornelis
2
I
I
Rulant Jan.
2
I
I
Symense Johannis
2
5 5
I I
I
7 I IO 3
No. 5-3 No. I-S No. 5-8 No. 1-5
Vanwyck Johannes
I
5
I
4,
Voorhis Daniel.
2
5
I
I
9, 9, 8,
No. 9-5 .No. 5-2 No. 6-8 No. 8-3
5 5
2
2 2, 13
No. 3-8 No. 10-2
5
No. 7-1 No 7-2
No. 8-4
No. 4-6 No. 4-7
No. 7-7
No. 8-1 No. 8-7
No. 5-7 No. 9-2 No. 10-8 . No. 3-1 No. 6-5
No. 10-3 No. 5-4
No. 2-4 No. 9-1
2
Mo. 1-7 No. 7-3
No. 9-8 No. 4-3 No. 4-5
Vanwyck Barent
5 15
3 2
2 1, 4, 10,
I I
I, 4,
Vauwyck Theodoris Jr.
No. 1-4
Couwenhoven Jan
4 IO
2
2
NO. OF BENCH
NO. OF ROW AND PLACE IN ROW
No. 3, 4 Place No. 7, 6th Place No. 6, 3 Place
5 5
5 5
I
5
5
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1734 .- den 25 April. Syn wy nederduytse gereformeerde gemeente in oysterbay vergadert in onse neuwee Kerck om Kercke Meesters te Kiesen, so Kiesen wy desen personen Peter Luister en Cornelis hoogland tot Kercke meesters om de Sit Pltaese te regeren volgens de boven ge schrevene arteykel ook begeren de bouwers of Opsienders rekening te doen aen dese personen Simon loyse en Cornelis Hoogland.
Translation :
1734 .- April 25. The members of the Dutch Reformed Church in Oysterbay were gathered in our New Church, for "Church Masters" to choose to regulate the sittings according to the before written articles also to require the builders and overseers, reckoning to do. Peter Luyster and Cornelis Hoog- land were chosen for "Church Masters" and Simon Loyse and Cornelis Hoogland were chosen to receive the report of the builders and overseers.
1734 .- de 15 Maey-hebben de bouwers of opsienders Van Het bouwen van onse Kerck rekening gedaen van het getekende gelt.
Translation :
1734 .- May 15. The builders and overseers of our Church have given an account of the money received.
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The "Kerk Meester" or Deacons found a book was requisite for the Records of the Church and the first one used is before the writer. It is made of very heavy paper and bound with sheep skin.
On the first page is written the following :
" Dit is het Kercke meesters boeck Voor de nederduytsche gereformeerde Kerck Van Oysterbay in queens county op het Jlaut Van nassow in de Colony Van New York den 15 Maey anno 1734."
The first Church must have presented a strange appearance. There is some difference of opinion as to its shape, the proba- bility is that it was square. The sides as well as the roof were
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A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY.
shingled. The exposed ends of the shingles were rounded. The building was not painted either within or without.
The posts for the frame were about fifteen feet high and the four-sided and pointed roof was very steep.
High up on the sides were small windows, the upper part of small panes of glass and the lower part of shutters.
These latter were closed in winter, but opened in summer for ventilation. On the south side were a pair of double doors rounded at the top, and made of boards placed diagonally. From the arrangement of the seats the building must have been thirty feet square.
During the early period there was only an earth floor, but a board floor seems to have been added later, probably in 1789.
Around the sides extending upwards more than four feet was a board wainscoting and above that probably plastering while overhead was a ceiling of boards.
The pulpit was small and raised high above the head of the people and was at the north side of the room. On that side were also a number of pegs on which the minister and perhaps the elders and deacons hung hats and overcoats. In front of or under the pulpit at his desk sat the " voorlezer" or clerk. The arrangement of the seats is thus described by the clerk who kept the "kerk meesters " book :
"Nomber een begint agter de onderling banck, en soo Voort tot nomber Vier, en nomber Vyef begint agter de dejakens banck en Soo Voort, Ver Volgens "
"hier begennen de Vrous plaetse aen de West Syde Van de gangh."
Gathering from this record there must have been five seats in the northeast corner, the first one being the elders' bench with four seats behind it.
Then the other benches were with the ends against the east side of the Church the first one being the deacons' bench with number five behind it and so back to the door, the last one being number ten. On the west side of the aisle were the women's chairs, there being ten rows of chairs with eight in a row. In the northwest corner was the Justices' bench, probably facing the women. The men's benches only accommodated
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A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY.
six. The Justices' bench seated seven. The seating capacity of the Church was therefore one hundred and sixty.
Extract from a letter of John Armstrong Bennet, of Nyack, N. Y.
" Before me is a New Testament with Hymns (Psalm Book) and Psalms published in 1758, well bound and closed with silver clasps and rings, which my grandmother carried to Brookville (Wolver Hollow) Church. I remember the Old Church. it was square like a "hay rick," the ceiling was concave and of unpainted boards, containing the numbers in chalk marks and which I loved to count.
The pulpit was the exact shape of a Wine Glass, with sounding board suspended over it. I was present when it was taken down."
The Sit places were overcarried (to use the Dutch phrase) by a regular transfer on the part of the Kerck Meesters, and the subsequent owners of seats (whose names are as follows) is as correct a list as it is possible to arrive at :
(Form of Transfer.)
De mans plaes Van Daniel foor hees (Voorhies) number 10, en de vrouwe plaes, number 9, de 8 plaes, is over gedragen aen Joris Bennit 1754. Date :
1754 Bennet Joris
17So Bogart Isaac
1784 do. Isaac, Jr.
1783 Bennet George
1783
Bennet Jeromus, Jr.
1786 Bennet Jan, son of Joremus.
1787 Bogart Daniel
1787 Bogart Abraham
1787 Bennet William
1787 Bennet Nicholas
1787 Bennet Heronemus
1793 Bennet Garret
ISO4 Boorem Jane, wife of Cornelius Schenck.
IS15 Bennet Allcha
1764 Crucker Marygretta
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A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY.
1783 Cussow Johannes, Jr.
1783 Dirjee Joost
1754 Durjee Daniel
1788 Durlant Henry, grandson of Jan.
1788 Durye Gabriel
1788 Durye Marya, wife of Nicholas Bennet
1788 Duryee Jores, son of Joost.
1787 Durye Abraham
1787 Dodge Tammie
1787 Hogelant Abram
1787 Hendricksen Tam
1747 Hegeman Joseph
1777 do. Dorothy, wife of Andreas.
1783 Hegeman Rem.
1783 Hegeman Petris, son of Adrien
1784 Hegeman Petrus, gd Son Peteres
1784 Hegeman Annatie, Widow.
1784 Hogeland Teunes
1787 Hoogland Cornelius
1788 Hartenberg Rem, son of Hendericus
1789 Hegeman Adrain, Jr.
1789
Hegeman Joost
1790 Hoogland Willem
1790 Hoogland Maria
I SO4 Hegeman Jacobus, son of Joost
1804 Hegemena Catrina dau. of Peter Onderdonck
1804 Hegeman Albert, son of Joost
1804
Hegeman Andris
1804 Laning Meteys
1767 Luyster Jan
1773 do. Jacobus
I773 do. Peter, Jr.
1773
do. Wintie wife of Garret Nostrant
1782 Luyster Jeromis
1788 Leten Davit
1789 Laton Jan
1801 Laten Suke, Maid, sister to Jan.
1818 Luyster James
1818 Monfoort Abram
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A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY.
1762 Monfoort Jan
do. Gerret 1777
1777 do. Jores, Gd son of Jacobus
1777 do. Joost
1782 do. Jacobus
1783 do. Doortie
1783
do. Elizabeth
1788 do. Abraham
1788 do. Peter, Gd son of Jacobes
1788
Miller Jan, son of Joost
1789 Mitchell Thos.
1827
Monfoort George
1815 Monfoort Eida
1770 Norstand Joris
1773 do. Garret
1773 do. Antie, wife of Cornelius Sedam
1788 Noerstrant Isaack
1788 do. Jan
1788 Onderdonck Petrus, son of Andrius.
1762 Remsen Isaac, Jr., son of Jan.
1767 Rynhardt Frederick
1772 Remsen Jan., Jr.
1770 do. Abraham
1786 do. Jan son of Isaac
1787 do. Jores
1788 Rappelye Jores
1762 Stagt Jemyme
1764 Schenck Steven
1771 Symonsen Aron, son of Johannes.
I773 Sedam Cernalus
1777 Simonsen Scharel, son of Frederick Sr.
1786 Snedecer Abraham, son of Gerrit
1787 Sudam Catrina, wife of Minnie
1787
Snedeker Barent
1788 Schenck Nicoles
1788 do. Sara wife of Jan.
1788 Symese Charel, son in law of Jan Wortman
1788 Sudam Minnie
1788 Snedeker Hilletie, dau. of Gerret.
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A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY.
1788 Simonsen Wilhelm
1788 Sudam Vernantes
1788 Stymes Christoffel
1788 Schenck, Jan.
1788
do. Martin
1804 Simonsen Anne, dau. of Joost Hegeman wiandfe of Rem B. Symensen
1804 Simonson Martha, dau. of Charles and wife of Isaac Van Nostrand
1804 Van Voorhees Jan -
1804 do. Abraham
1748 do. Jacob
1748 Vanderbelt Jacob
1745 do. Jan
1788 do. Jan, son of Jan
1788 Van Velse Willem
1745 Van Sant Gerrit
1749
do. Berardus
1754 do. Johannes
1754 Van Wickelen Gerrit.
1785
do. Maria, spinster.
1785
do. Jacob son of Gerrit.
1788 Van Wickelen Jan.
1764 Van Nostrant, Jan.
1768 do. Jacob
1771 Van Noorstrant, Anthonie
18OS June 25, Van Nostrand Isaac
18II Jan. 28, Van Nostrand, Adrian
1788 Van Cats Nicoles son-in-law of Jan Wortman
1787 Van Cats Cornelius
1789 Van Wyck Abraham
1789 Van Wyck Theodorus
1773 Woortman Alche
1783 Weeks Samuel.
1788 Wertman Gerrit son of Jan.
1787 Weecks Elizabeth, Dau. of Samuel.
1799 Weeks Jacob, Bro. of Elizabeth.
At the close of 1789 a revised list was prepared. Some of the places were still standing in the names of the Old People, viz :
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A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY.
Johannes Cusyou I Peteres Hegeman I
From 1734
Cornelis Hoogland I
to
Peter Luyster 2 1789
Isaac Remsen
in Jaer onses heere een duysent seven hundert vyef en dertigh twede Agustus Syn Wy nederduyse gereformeerde gemeente te Samen Vergadert geweest om twe persone te kiesen om een transpoort te geven aen Jacob Van Noortstrant en Allebert Van Noortstrant Soo keisen Wy Cornelis Hoogland en gerret Snediker.
TRANSLATION :
In the year of our Lord 1735, August 2d. The Dutch Reformed congregation were gathered together for the purpose of choosing two persons to give a transfer to Jacob Van Noortstrant and Allebert Van Noortstrant.
So we chose Cornelis Hoogland and Gerret Snediker.
in't yaar 1749-en 1750 heben wy Jacob Van de belt en Laurenes Haff uyt betaalt aan gelt Voor de on Kostings van een doot Chleet voor onse duytsche gemeente heyr te oesterbay om tot haar gebruyk te wesen waneer de Noot het Sal vereys schon £3. 9s. 3d. met consent van een gedeelte van de gemeente die het met ons toe gestemt heben aan de ecne side ende met consent van Simon Locey en peter Liester die daar toe verkoven waar, en van de aandere gedeeltye van de gemeente ende heben het met ons toegestem dat het gebruyk van het Cleet Sal weesen en kelt aan de gene die behorven aan de gemeente van onse duytsche kerck heyr te oesterbay af te onder het gebeyt van dese gemeente wonen het Sy of Sy Lidtmaaten Syn of te Niet, ende is het dat daar twe dooden boven de aarden Soude Syn die het Cleet Soude van noden heben gelyk op Sodanige wise Sal de onste doot het oeur Regt van het Cleet heben, en de die gene die behoren aan de gementie van de kerk van hemstie, Shemeica of te newtown Sall en geen Regt tot het Cleet heben om het te gebruyken of te Sy moeten wonen onder het gebeyt vandese gemeentie heyr to oesterbay.
Laurence Haff, Jacob Vanderbelt.
TRANSLATION :
In the year 1749 and so have we Jacob Vanderbelt and Laurens
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A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY.
Haff paid out in money £3. 9. 3. for the cost of a " Pall " for the use of our Dutch congregation here to Oysterbay whenever it shall be required.
With consent of the congregation on the one part and of Simon Locey and Peter Liester on the other part, who thereto chosen were by the congregation, they have with us agreed that the use of the Pall shall belong solely to those who hold to the congre- gation of our Dutch church here to Oysterbay, or reside within the territory of this congregation; whether they be of the members or not, and in such manner as above because of the increase, should there be two dead that the " dead cloth " should require at the same time, the first dead shall the preference to the "cloth " have ; and those who belong to the congregation of the church of hemstie, (Success.) Shemeica (Jamaica, ) or to New- town no right to the "cloth " shall have; because the use is to those who must reside within the territory of this congregation here to Oesterbay.
LAWRENCE HAFF. JACOB VANDERBELT.
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A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY.
TO ALL CHRISTIAN PEOPLE TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME :
GREETING : KNOW YER, That I, Jurian Haff of Oysterbay in Queens County on Nassau Island within the Province of New York for and in the consideration of the sum of Two pounds Curant Lawfull' Money of ye provinces aforesaid. To me in hand well and truly paid before ye ensealing and Delivery hereof by Laurence Haff and Peter Menfort (trustees of the Dutch Meeting house) of the Township aforesd ye Receipt where of I do here By acknowledge and my self there with fully, fully satisfied con- tented and paid and thereof and of every part and parcell Thereof do Exonerate Acquit and fully discharge Ye Sd Laurence Haff and Peter Menfort and their suckcessers for ever by these present have given granted Bargained Sold Alienated Convayed and Confirmed and by these presents Do freely fully and abso- lutely, give grant bargain sell allien convay and confirm unto ye sd Laurence Haff and Peter Menfort, and their suckcessers for ever one certain piece of Land a Little westwardly of my now dwelling House, on ye fore most hill butted (for the use of a burying yard) and Bounded as followeth. Ye first bounds is a post Marked P N being the North east corner and to range from thence westwardly so far as ye fence Now Stands which being the North west corner and then ranging with that breadth Southwardly so far as to make forty-two Squair Rodds as the fence now stands, to gather with a privilege to pass and Repass from ye road in the hollow up to the premises as the path is from thence Now useed-To Have and to hold the Sd forty two squair Rodds of Land with the priviledge there to Reserved for passing and Repassing with all the appurtenances, Priviledge and Commodity to the same belonging or in any wise apertaining to them, to them ye sd Laurence Haff Peter Menfort and to their suckcessers for ever to them and their only proper use benefit and behoof for ever and I ye sd Jurian Haff for me and my Heirs
- 3
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A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY.
Extrs and Admitrs Do covenent promise and grant To and with the Sd Laurence Haff Peter Menfort and to their Suckcessers that at and before ye ensealing hereof I am the true and Lawfull owner of the above bargened premises and am Lawfully Siezed and possessed of the same in Mine own proper Right as a good perfect and absolute Estate of inheratance in fee simple and have in myself good Right full power and Lawfull authority to grant bargain Sel Convay Confirm ye sd bargained premises in Maner as afore sd and that ye sd Laurence Haff and Peter Menfort and their Suckcesers shall and may from time to time and at all Times for ever here after by Vertue of these presents Lawfully peasably and Quietly have hold use occupy posses and injoy ye sd Demised and Bargained premises with ye appurtunances fre and Clear and freely and Clearly Acquitted Exonerated Discharged and for all and all manner or former and other gifts grants bargains sails Leasces Mortgaes wills intails Joynterys Dowrys Judgments Executions incumbranances Whatsoever and I ye sd Jurian Haff de further Covenant and bind My self My Heirs, Executors and Administrators firmly By these presents do Warent and defend ye sd Laurence Haff and Peter Menfert and their Suckcescers in Quiet and peacable possession of all and singular ye afore granted forty-two squair Rodds of Land and the privaledge for passing and Repassing to the above Mentioned premises or Land against any Just and lawfull claim of any person or persons Whatsoever in witness Whereof I the said Jurian Haff have here unto set To my hand and fixed My Seal This thirteenth day of December in the Year of Our Lord Christ one thousand Seven hundred and fifty 1750.
Sealed and Delivered in ye presence of Samuel Balden Charles Doty.
The words trustees of the Dutch Meeting house between the foorth and fifth lines and the words for the use of a burying yard between ye tenth and eleventh Line enter Lined before Sealing and Delivery of these presents.
JURIAN HAFF (Seal)
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The "Kerk Meesters" were elected to serve two years, and the retiring member made his report of Funds on hand to the new member, and the one who went out the next year.
BALANCE ON HAND
ELECTED
KERK MEESTERS
DATE OF REPORT
BONDS
MONEY
April
25 1734
Pieter Luyster
€
S
d
42
S
d
Cornelis Hooglandt
25
1735 Gerret Snedeker.
27 1736 Daniel Voorhees.
1738 April
26
II 16
5
2 19
9
25 1738 Jan Woertman.
1740 June
30
13
9
8
13
9
May
19 1739 Symen Loysie.
1741
14
4
7 13
6
19 1740 Barent Kool.
1742
20
15
3
16|
0
June
20 1741|Petres Hegeman 1742 Lucas Vorhees
1744
1743 Hendriek Hardenbergh.
1745
28
I
April
II 1744 Joost Durye.
1746
30
o
4
May
24 1745 Jost Miller
1747
31
8
I
9 1746 Abraham Hogalandt
1748
25
6
I
5 14!
3
22 1747 Johanis Simesen
1749
25
6
I
5 14
4
6 1748 Jacob Vanderbelt
1750
25
6
I
2 IS IO
Lourens Hoff.
No
report
Se
Mi
n ut es of
Pieter Monfoort
No
report
K ler
k
M eelst ers
April 25
1752 Jeronus Bennit.
No
report
1
Ju
ly
25
1 755
May
12
1753 Jan Woertman
1755 Aug.
9.16 16
7
Aug.
9 1755 Gerrit Noorstrant.
1757 May
30 18 I2
9
May
29 1756 Adrian Hegeman
758
27
II
4
20
1758 Gerrit Snedeker
1760
14 21
5
9
31
1760 Piter Luyster Juner.
1762 May
31 23
5
9
June
16
1761 Isaac Remsen Juneer
1766 Aug.
3023 18
7
May
21
1762 Jan Monfoort
1767 May
23 24 3
7
Aug.
123 1766 Jan Luyster.
1768 Aug.
5 24
6
4
May
16 1767 Gerret Wortman.
1769 ść
5 25 13
2
July
16 1768 Adriaen Hegeman.
1770 June
14 25 :13
2
"
31 1769 Gerret Van Wickelen Junier
1772
29
9
7
June
2 1770 Jan Ramson Junier
1775 Aug.
12 29
9
7
Aug. 5 1775
Anthonie Van Noorstrant
1786 Sept.
2 29
9
7
June
12 1777 Albert Van Noorstrant
1787 June
May
20 1786 Jacob Van Wicklen.
1789 .
-
9
8
June
5 1790 Pieter Hegaman.
1792 June
4 35 13
0 18 in kopers
Aug.
12 1791 Anthonie Van Noorstrant ..
Dec eased
June
2 1792 Joseph Hegeman.
7 1803 Jacob Van Wicklen
1803 June
7 35
13
0
Isaac Van Noorstrand.
26
8
080400 0 4 0
3 17
9
25 1737 Jacobus Monfoort.
1739 May
26
6
7 17:16
3
% 1757 Frederick Simese
1759 June
6
19
II
4
Jan Remsen.
1761
16 22
4
0
21 1772 Jacobos Luister
1777 May
27 29 9
7
13 32: 16 812 5 33 9
19 23 17 0 18 in kopers
23 1789 Davit Laton ..
1791'Aug.
12,35:13| 0 IS in kopers
26 1787 Peter Luister, Juner
1790
The date following the name is the time when he made his report, the amount following shows the balance in their hands of Banden & Gelt as they expressed it.
1751 Jan Remse.
No report
1756 June
66 21
25 1754|Joseph Hegeman.
1743
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Anthonie Van Noorstrant, elected Aug. 5, 1775 just before the outbreak of the Revolutionary War, made a report on May 27, 1777, of a balance on hand of £29,9,7.
The old man must have been very much disturbed in mind over the safe keeping of the church money during the war, as a company of Hessian soldiers were camped within a short distance of his home in Wolver Hollow.
Sept. 2, 1786. He turned over to his successors the same amount.
The balance on hand was designated as so much in Banden and Gelt and Kopers. The "Banden " was a portion of the money loaned out on a personal bond, a copy of such bond here follows:
In 1790, '91, '92 they reported as a part of the Funds 18 shillings in " Kopers."
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that I, Adrian Hegeman, minor, yeoman of Oyster Bay, in Queens County, on Nassau Island and in the Province of New York, Yeoman, am held and firmly bound unto the Deacons of the Dutch Congre- gation of Oyster Bay in Queens County aforesaid, in the penal sum of fourty pounds, current lawful money of New York to be paid to the said Deacons or to their successors, attorney, Executors, administrators or assigns to the which payment well and truly to be made I do hereby bind myself, my heirs, executors or administrators and everyone of them firmly by these presents, sealed with my seal and dated this first day of May and in the year of our Lord Anno Domini 1769.
The condition of this above was the payment of Twenty pounds and that at five per cent. Two receipts on the back were endorsed for the payment of interest for 1770, 1771.
Aug. 5, 1759, Gerret Wortman reported the balance as { 25, 13. 2 and this Bond was a portion of that balance.
It is to be noticed that it was given by Adrian Hegeman Minor.
There were three Adraens: Senior, Junior and Minor, although the Senior was dead the title was retained.
In 1749 Lourens Hoff (Haff) was elected Kerk Meester or ' Deacon, but when the time came for him to report, he failed to do so, and held on to the money.
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In order that the Minutes of the Deacons of July 25, 1755 may be understood regarding the discord therein mentioned, their Minutes showing the cause of the trouble is here transcribed.
In't Jaer 1750 heeft Jacob Vanderbelt Rekening ge daen aen Lourens Haff en Peter Monfoort, en heeft gevonden aen Gelt [2. 18. 10 aen bonden {25.6.1.
In't Jaer 1751, in Maey, is gekose tot Kerke meester Jan Remse maer heeft geen rekening konnen Doen om redenen dat Lawerens Haff die heeft het in zyn hande gehoude.
In't Jaer 1752, den 25 April is gekose tot kerke meester Jeromus Bennit en heeft ook geen rekening kunne doen ook om die seldfe redenen.
In't Jaer 1753 den 12 Maey is gekose tot kerke meester Jan Woertman en heeft ook geen rekening kunne doen ook om die Selfe redenen.
In't Jaer 1754 den 25 Maey is gekose tot kerke meester Joseph Hegeman.
(Translation. )
In the year 1750 has Jacob Vanderbelt an account given to Lourens Haff and Peter Monfoort and has given to, in money {2. 18. 10 in Bonds £25.6.1
In the year 1751 in May is chosen for Deacon Jan Remse, but he no reckoning can do, for reason that Lawerens Haff has it in his hands held.
In the year 1752 the 25 Apl. is chosen for Deacon, Jeromus Bennit and he also no reckoning can do also for the same reason.
In the year 1753 the 12 May is chosen for Deacon Jan Woertman and he also no reckoning can do also for the same reason.
In the year 1754 the 25 May is chosen for Deacon Joseph Hegeman.
It appears that some of the subscribers to the building fund thought the surplus over the cost of the Church, and the profit arising from the sale of forfeited seats, should be divided, and a discord arose.
In't Jaer 1755 den 25 July hebben de kerke meesters dese artykel opgedrage om dat daer een oneens hyt in't Jaer 1753 gerese was, en in't Jaer 1734 doc is de kerk Voltrocken en het
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gelt dat daer doe overbleef wier van Jaer tot Jaer tot winste gedaen by de Bouwers of Kerke meesters Van de Kerk maer in't jaer 1749 is Lauwelens haf gekose tot Kerke meester en die heeft dat gelt gedeel na proporsie van plaese aen dese persone hier onder geschreven by name.
Seymen Losie
Jacob haf
Joost Monfoort
in plaets Van Jacobus Monfoort
Johannes Symense
Steven Janse Willem Voorhees
Hens Hardenberg
Lucas Voorhees
Joost Miller Jurien haf
Johannes Cusjou Jan Dorland Jan haf
Willem Walter Jan Rueland
Soo hebben dese boven geschrevene persone geen recht nogh deel aen dat overschot van dit gelt dat nogh over gebleven vas, en het overschot van dat gelt dat Lauwerens haf niet genomen heeft dat sal blyven om te gebruyken voor onkosting en rapper- eren en by de kerke meesters tot Winste te doen Volgens de Voorgaande artykel voor die gene die niet getrocken hebben.
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