Anniversary discourse and history of the First Reformed church of Poughkeepsie, Part 6

Author: Van Gieson, A. P. (Acmon P.)
Publication date: 1893
Publisher: Poughkeepsie, Pub. by request of the Consistory
Number of Pages: 142


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1716 Johannes Ten Broek, . 1750


Pieter Dubois,


1716


Christoffell Van Bommell, 1753


Jan Osterum,


. 1718


Henry Livingston, . 1753


Johannes Ter Bosch, 1720


Petrus Laroy, 1753


Barent Van Kleeck, 1721


Hendric Oostrum 1754


Jan Buys, ยท


1721


Barent Lewis, 1754


Pieter Parmentier,


. 1724


Johannes Swartwout, 1755


Johannes Van Kleeck, . Elias Van Beenschooten, 1733


1731


Henricus Hageman, 1764


Pieter Van Kleeck, . 1764


Frans Laroy, .


1739


Hiskia Hooghteelingh, 1765


Mateus du bois, 1741


Johannes Fort, 1766


Jacobus Van den Bogert, 1741


Isaac Hageman, . 1766


Gysbert Pels, .


1747


Gulyn Ackerman, 1767


Louwerens Van Kleeck, Jacobus Stoutenburg, . 1748


1747


Jacobus Degraef, 1767


Johannes Freer, 1768


Ezekiel Masten, 1748 Elias Van Beenschooten, 1770


Johannes Kankeli. 1749 .


Simeon Freer, . 1771


Aart Middog, 1749


Denie Oostrom, . 1772


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Elders.


Tobias Stoutenburgh, 1774


Richard Snedeker, 1774


Gilbert Livingston, 1774


Jacobus Freer, 1777


Moses Degraef, 1778


Leonard Van Kleeck, 1778


Johannes Van Kleeck, . 1779


John Conklin, 1779


Pieter Lewis, 1780


Gulian Ackerman, 1781


William Stoutenburgh, 1781


Peter Tappen, 1781


Egbert Benson, 1782


Peter Schryver, 1783


John Freer, 1783


Isaac Romine, 1783


Henry Hagaman, 1787


John Van Kleeck, 1791


Myndert Van Kleeck, 1792


Peter Low,


1792


Abraham Sleight, 1793


John Baily,


1793


Peter Connell, 1793


Joost Westervelt,


1794


Albertus Scryver,


1795


Wines Manny,


1796


Henry D. Varick, 1852


Elisha Conover, 1852


David C. Foster, . 1853


Herman J. Jewett, 1856


William Brownell, 1856


Charles M. Pelton, 1857


Daniel R. Thompson, . 1858


Eliphalet Buel, 1859


Dr. Elvy Deyo, . 1859


James Alexander,


1863


John H. Matthews, 1865


John Pells, . 1809


Warren Skinner, 1869


Henry L. Young, 1871


Milton A. Fowler,


1872


Samuel Matthews,


1810


Lewis D. Barnes,


1877


Henry Barnes, .


1811


Abraham G. Storm, 1811


Hendrick Wiltsey, 1812


Robert Forrest, 1814


Evert A. Pells, . 1815


Simeon DeGraff, 1816


John M. Cook, 1817


John V. B. Varick, 1820


William Bell, 1821


Joseph Harris, 1823


Peter A. Schryver, 1824


Michael T. Heyser, 1824 Joshua Bishop, . 1824


Lawrence I. Van Kleeck, 1826


Thomas W. Tallmadge, 1827


Isaac Roosevelt, . 1831


Abraham Overbagh, . . 1835 Charles P. Adriance, 1836


John C. Van Valkenburgh, 1837


Cornelius Westervelt,


. 1839


Aaron Low, . 1841


Phillip Ostrander, 1842


Abraham Suydam, 1843


Dr. John Barnes, 1843


John Bodden, 1843


Josiah Burritt, 1844


William Broas, 1850


Peter Cornell, 1796


Peter DeRiemer, 1797


Jacob R. Duryee, . 1799


Benjamin Westervelt, . 1801


Joseph Westervelt, 1804


Isaac Romaine, 1804


Abraham Pells, 1805


Paul Schenck, 1806


Peter LeRoy, 1809


Cornelius Swartwout, 1809


David Carpenter, 1810


Adrian Covenhoven, 1810


Charles C. More, . 1879


Marvin O. Dutton, .


1886


John W. Pelton,


1891


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DEACONS.


Elias Van Bunschooten, . 1716 Pieter Parmentier, . . 1716 Johannes Van Kleeck, . 1718 Jacobus Van den Bogoord, 1720 Frans Le Roy, . 1721


Louwerens Van Kleeck, 1721


Myndert Van den Bogaart, 1724 Pieter Van Kleeck, . . 1731


Isaac Romeyn, Jr., .


1774


Henry Van der Burgh, 1732


Henry Livingston, . 1777


Henricus Pells, 1733


Jacob Low, 1777


Johannes Tappen, 1739


Garret Van Vliet, 1778


Abraham De Graef, 1739


Petrus Van Vliet, 1778


Francis Filkin, 1741


Bernardus Swartwout, 1778


Gilbert Pealing, 1742


Garret Van Bomel, 1779


Pieter Vielen, 1742


Lucas Stoutenburgh, 1779


Pytter Van Kleeck, 1747


Nicolaus Anthony, 1780


Pytter Laroy,


1747


Robert Hoffman, 1780


Herri Libbeston, 1748


Myndert Van Kleeck, 1781


Augustenus Turk, 1748


Johannes Schryver, 1781


Simeon Freer, . 1749


Isaac Conklin, 1782


Matthew Van Keuren, 1749


Aaron Low, . 1782


Johannes Lewis, 1750


Cornelius Westervelt, 1783


Teunis Voos, . 1750


Wines Manny, 1783


Hendrikus Hageman, 1752


Elias Du Bois,


1752


Benjamin Westervelt, . 1787


Abraham Swartwout, . 1752


Damon Palmentier,


1754


Peter Connell, 1791


Johannes Rynders,.


1754


Peter Leroy, . 1791


William Cyffer, 1755


Gabriel Ellison, 1792


Moses Verfeele, . 1755


Jacob Duryee, 1792


Isaac Hegeman, 1763


Albert Scryver, 1793


Cornelius Swartwout, 1793


Guleyn Ackerman, 1764


Peter I. Vanderburg, 1793


Jacobus De Graef, 1764


Abraham Pells, 1795


Johannes Freer, 1765


Jacob K. Duryee, .


1795


Denie Oostrom, . 1765


John Low, 1795


John Stoutenburg, 1796 .


Jacobus Freer, . 1766


James Agmoedie, . 1767


Isaac Van Bunschooten, 1767


Adrian Covenhoven, 1798


John L. Van Kleeck, . 1799


Moses Degraef, . 1768


Hendrik Pels, 1769


Isaac Kool, . 1769


Jan Oostrom, 1770


Isaak Romeyn, 1770


Myndert Van Denbogart, 1774 Henry S. Pells, . 1774


Johan Barrack, 1774


Roelof Oostrum, 1752


Abraham Fort, 1783


Henry Livingston, Jr., 1787


Joost Westervelt, 1791


John Kancklin, . 1763


David Ackerman, 1766


Bernardus Van Kleeck, 1797


Hendrick Masten, 1798


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Paul Schenck, 1799


Samuel Matthews, 1801


John Rogers, 1801


Michael Tomkins, 1804


John Pells, 1805


Abraham Van Wagener, 1805


Henry Barnes, . 1809


Abraham G. Storms, 1809


Roelof Van Voorhees, . 1809


Hendrick Wiltsey, 1810


Evert A. Pells, 1810


John M. Cook,


1810


Daniel Hebard,


1811


Benjamin Howland,


1811


John H. Dubois, 1811


Peter A. Scryver,


1812


Robert Forrest,


1812


David Ring, 1813 .


George T. Brinckerhoff, 1813


Thomas W. Tallmadge, . 1814


Isaac H. Palmatier, 1814


Joshua Bishop, . 1814


George Bloom, 1815


Halstead Price, 1815


Ezra Boughton, .


1816


William Bell, 1817


Abraham Ver Valin, 1818


Peter Pells, 1818


Frederick Phelps, 1820


Joseph Parmalee,


1821


Michael T. Heyser, .


1822


John Dearing, Jr., 1822


John C. Van Valkenburgh,


1823


Richard T. Van Wyck, 1823 George Swan, 1824


Abraham Van Wagenen, 1824


Isaac Roosevelt, . 1825


David Ver Valin, 1825 Abraham Overbagh, . 1826


Sidney M. Livingston, 1826


Peter H. Lawson, . 1827


Amos T. De Groff, . 1828


Jacob Boerum, 1831


William Brownell, . 1831


Charles P. Adriance, 1832


Jacob Rowe, . 1833


William Broas, 1835


James W. Bogardus, 1835


Cornelius Westervelt, . 1835


Ezekiel Jewell, 1835


Elisha L. Haley, 1836


Phillip Ostrander, 1836


Aaron Low, . 1838


John Van Wyck, 1838


Casper D. Smith, . 1839 Abraham A. Davis, 1839


David C. Foster, 1840


Cornelius Cornell, 1840


Daniel D. Jones, 1841


Elisha Conover, . 1842


James Trivett,


1842


Herman J. Jewett, 1842


Isaac H. Coller, 1843


Albert Brett, 1843


Henry D. Varick, 1844


Stephen Uhl, 1844


Charles M. Pelton,


1844


William H. Bradley, 1845


David Boerum, 1845


John Van Keuren, 1849


John Hagaman,


1850


Norman M. Finlay, 1850


Dr. Elvy Deyo, 1851 .


Barnard D. Van Kleeck, 1852 Daniel R. Thompson, . 1853 David B. Lent, Jr., 1854


William Simmons, 1856 .


John C. McNeil,


1856


George W. Payne, 1858 John R. Leslie, . 1858


Jonathan Ransom,


1859


Charles Carman, 1859


Cornelius S. Van Wyck, 1860 William H. Broas, . 1861


George B. Adriance, . . 1862


Charles J. Howell,


1862


John K. Mandeville,


. 1863


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Lewis D. Barnes,


1865


L. F. Read, 1879


John W. Miller,


1868


J. Collins Pumpelly, 1880


Milton A. Fowler,


1868


Charles D. Johnson, . 1880


John V. H. Miller,


1872


Chester A. George, 1881


John W. Pelton,


1872


James M. Hadden, 1882


Charles W. Bradley,


1873


Marvin O. Dutton, . 1885


Samuel W. Buck,


1875


George W. Polk, .


1886


Nathan D. Barrows, .


1877


Henry E. Losey, 1886


Charles C. More,


1878


Charles R. Dickinson,


. 1891


SUNDAY SCHOOL.


The American Sunday School Union was not organized until 1824, and at that time Sunday Schools were few, and by many excellent Christian people were looked upon with disfavor. They were regarded as an innova- tion, and even as a desecration of the Lord's Day.


Reports of Sunday Schools in the Reformed Dutch churches do not appear on the minutes of General Synod until 1835, when it was resolved that "the churches in our communion be earnestly solicited to be- stow increased diligence on the religious education of the young ;" that the consistories " labor to render the Sabbath School institutions as profitable as may be, by correcting defects which may appear ; " and "that, for the sake of diffusing information on the interesting sub- ject, and of receiving the happy results of observation and experience, a report be made annually to the several Classes, of the manner in which the schools are con- ducted, the number of scholars belonging to them, the average attendance of the pupils, and the state of the school as it regards improvement in knowledge and piety, and that the substance of such report be embodied with the statistical reports of the churches on the minutes of the several Classes."


The first report to Synod of the Sunday School of the Church of Poughkeepsie appears in the minutes of the Synod of 1839, (at which time Rev. Dr. Mann was the


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pastor,) and states that the church had then but one school, and that the number of pupils was 165, and the average attendance 120. This, however, does not in- dicate the beginning of regular Sunday School work in the church, for in the minutes of the consistory appears an annual report to the Classis for 1825-6, which is signed by Rev. Dr. Cuyler, and states that "Catecheti- cal exercises, prayer meetings, and Sabbath Schools have been maintained." So far as is known, this is the first mention of the Sunday School which occurs in the records of the church and from the phraseology it is evident that at that date there were several schools, (doubtless in different neighborhoods of the then scat- tered congregation, ) and that one or more of them had been "maintained " for some time, (probably for some years,) prior to 1825.


Many of the early records of the Sunday School itself have been lost, and those which remain are imperfect. They simply state the attendance from Sabbath to Sabbath, and do not contain either the minutes of the proceedings of teachers and officers, or any list of officers.


It appears in them, incidentally, that Robert Forrest was superintendent in 1826, that John Thompson * was secretary in 1829 and 1830, that Jacob Rowe was super- intendent in 1835, E. L. Haley in 1837, and Robert For-


* Many of the friends of the Hon. John Thompson in his later years will easily recognize his style in the latter of the following entries, which are in his own handwriting :-


" Nov. 1, 1829. I entered this morning upon the duties of the office of secretary of the school, to which I have been appointed by its officers."


JOHN THOMPSON.


" Feby 21, 1830. Weather very pleasant, and while the invigorating beams of the natural sun cheer and animate the inhabitants of earth, we can, at times, feel the beams of the sun of righteousness as they dawn upon the heart."


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rest again in 1839. Here there is a complete break in the records for several years. Members of the church, now of mature age, who, during those years, attended the Sunday School as teachers or scholars, state, from recollection, that it was then superintended by Jonathan Ransom, Aaron Low, and Henry D. Varick.


After the break, the records are kept more systemat- ically, and show the following succession of superin- tendents :-


Daniel R. Thompson, 1853-63. John H. Mathews, 1863-75. Henry S. Jewett, 1875-6. Milton A. Fowler, 1876- .


At the date of the last annual report the total enroll- ment of the school was 354.


CHURCH EDIFICES.


The church has erected and occupied four edifices in succession.


FIRST EDIFICE. 1723-1760.


Steps towards the erection of the first edifice were taken soon after the organization of the church in 1716. In the earliest Church Masters' book are copies of subscription lists which were circulated in 1717, bearing (in Dutch) the following heading :-


"WHEREAS, The neighbors and inhabitants of Poughkeepsie desire to build a house of the Lord at Poughkeepsie, the elders and deacons have deemed it advisable to ask every one of the Christian congregation what each shall be willing to give towards the building of the same, and so much here to subscribe."*


* Nademael De Beure & in woondere van Pogkeepse genegen zyn Een huys Des Heeren te bouwen op Pogkeepse Soo heeft het De ouderlingen & Diakenen goed gedaght Een Eider van de Cristelike gemeente te versoeke wat Elleck Sal gelieven to geeven tot op bouen vant selve En Soo Veel hier onder te Tekene.


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The subscriptions which are appended are partly in money and partly in days' work. The highest subscrip- tions in money are sixty guilders each. * The sum total in money amounted to 1,427 guilders. The sum total of days' work subscribed was 61, which were estimated at six guilders per day, and, therefore, as equivalent to 366 guilders.


There is also another list of subscriptions amounting to 648 guilders for the construction of the arched pulpit, " Doophuisee,"+ and magistrates' seats.


In the same Church Masters' book is the following entry, (in Dutch) August, (day not specified) 1723.


" The places in the church are given out by the chosen Church Masters, Leonard Lewis, Barendt Van Kleeck and Pieter Palmetier, viz :- to every one herewith set down and to their heirs forever, also to their assigns being church members, and at the price as hereby set down, being for the payment of the cost of the building of the church."}


This is immediately followed by a list giving the names of persons, the number of sittings assigned to


* Mr. Jonathan Pierson, in his History of the Church of Schenectady, says, (pp. 62 and 180,) " The money of accounts of the Dutch was the guilder or florin, and stuyver, 20 of the latter to one of the former. There were the guilder sewant, (wampum,) and the guilder beaver ; the latter, of the value of about 40 cents, or three times that of the former. The guilder of accounts was commonly valued at one shilling New York currency."


In the books of the church of Poughkeepsie at about 1740 the guilder . disappears, and the accounts are in pounds, shillings and pence, New York currency-the pound being equal to $2.50.


+ " Doophuisje," (literally, "Little Baptism House,") was the name used to designate the space between the pulpit and the railing in front of it, in which the minister stood administering the sacrament of baptism.


# Aug., 1723. De plaetsen in De Kerck Zyn uyt gegeven door de Ver- korene Kerkmeesters Leonard Lewis, Barendt Van Kleeck & pieter palmetier. viz. Aen Een Eider Neven gestelt en aen haer Erfgename Voor Ewigh ook aen haer Assigneurs Zynde Ledemate, en tot De preis als hier by gestelt zynde tot voldoening van de oncoste van De Kerckt Bouen.


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each, the number of the bench or pew in which the sittings were located, and the prices of the sittings.


A little later in the same book appears the following receipt, in English ; so curious that it is worthy of tran- scription :-


1724, April 22. Wie unther weritten William Ennis & John Slater acknowledge to be fully Satesfied and paid for all the Joyners work Dun to the Church that is for the arch Pulput Doway Cannupe and all the Seets made in the Church the sum of Sexty pound 9s by Coll. Leonard Lewis, Capt. Barent Van Kleeck and Mr. Pieter Palmetier as Witness our hands.


WILLIAM ENNIS, JOHN SLATER.


From the foregoing extracts, it is evident that subscrip- tions for the building of the first house of worship were obtained in 1717, that the house was completed and occupied in 1723, (eight years before the coming of the first pastor,) and that in 1724 the bill for work done to the interior of the house had been presented and paid.


Concerning the location of this first edifice many wild and unfounded assertions have hitherto been made. Mr. Smith, in his History of Dutchess County, asserts that it was on the north side of Main street. Even so careful a historian as Mr. Benson J. Lossing, in a paper read in Poughkeepsie before the Young Men's Christian Associa- tion, on the evening of November 13, 1876, and published in the Dutchess Farmer of December 12, 1876, asserted that the edifice " stood on the north side of Main street, a little east of the Poughkeepsie Hotel, where its burying ground may yet be seen."* Mr. Henry Dubois Bailey, in his Historical Sketches, published in Fishkill in 1874, says (p. 297) that it "stood in the centre of what is now known as Market Street."


* Mr. Smith and Mr. Lossing doubtless had in mind the second edifice, (concerning which their assertion as to location is true,) and were not aware that there had been another preceding it.


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All these assertions are erroneous, as appears from the following evidence, by which the location of the church is determined beyond question.


First, is the deed dated December 26, 1716, by which Jacobus Van den Bogert conveyed to Barent Van Kleeck and others a piece or lot of ground "for the proper and only use, benefitt and behoof of the Inhabitance and Naberhood of pochkepsen aforesaid to bild and maentaen a proper Mieteng hous to worship the one and Thriee- onely God according to the Ruels and Methods as it is agried and Concludett by the Sinode National kept at Dordregt in the year 1618 and 1619, and that in the Neder Dutch Lingoo."


The lot thus conveyed is described as "Scituated Lyieng and being in pochkeepseng" and "butted and Boundett on the Nort Sid to the Rood that runs to the Eastard " and "on the west along the Rood that runs to the Sout" and as "a Corner Lott in Lenght one hun- derid and fifty foot and in breth one hunderid and fifty foot, beieng a four squaer Lodt."


The " Rood to the Eastard," thus given as one bound- ary, is now Main street, and the "Rood to the Sout," given as another boundary, is now Market street and the corner lot thus conveyed is on the corner of Main and Market streets opposite to the Court House, and is that on which the City National Bank and some adjoining buildings now stand. The lot was given for the express purpose of building a meeting house thereon. The church had then no other piece of land on which to build, and as the work of building was begun soon after the conveyance of the lot, it must be inferred that the edifice was built on that lot.


Second, That this inference is correct is proven by another deed, dated June 16, 1756, by which Peter Van Kleeck conveyed to Gale Yelverton a lot with thirty


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yards frontage, on the north side of what is now Main street, and in the deed is called "The East Lane." The lot thus conveyed was afterwards (1760) con- veyed to the church and is known to be the thirty yards on the north side of Main street adjoining and east of the Nelson House Annex, formerly the Pough- keepsie Hotel. It is directly opposite to the corner of Market and Main streets. But, in the deed referred to, this lot is described as being "Opposite to the North end of the church." It follows that the north end of the church was opposite to the lot described, and this locates the church on or near the corner of Market and Main streets.


Third, The southern and eastern boundaries of the corner lot on which the church stood have remained unchanged, and are well known at the present time, and, by measurements from them, it appears that the lot, as originally conveyed, extended westward about eleven feet beyond the line of the curbstone of Market street at the corner of Main, and northward about the same distance beyond the line of the curbstone in Main street. In other words, in the widening of the old South Road into the present Market street, and of the old East Lane into the present Main street, a strip about eleven feet wide, plus the sidewalk, has been cut off from each of those two sides of the lot.


It is thus evident, from documents of unquestioned authority, that the first edifice stood on a lot one hun- dred and fifty feet square on the corner of Main and Market streets, with one end towards Main street, and that, if it was built on or near the western line of the lot, it may have covered a few feet of what is now Market street.


Concerning the materials of which it was constructed the records give no direct information. The accounts,


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however, show that payments were made for lumber, and nails, and a lime kiln, and make no mention of brick. Hence, it may be inferred, with a good degree of certainty, that the material was not brick ; that it may possibly have been wood ; but that more probably it was stone.


The following extracts show conclusively that the edi- fice was supplied with a gallery, that a new gallery was constructed about 1741, that the church was at the same time newly roofed, and that while the seats on the main floor were rented, those in the gallery were free.


"November, A. D. 1741. Then are these expenses incurred by the congregation for roofing the church and making a new gallery therein."*


The items immediately follow, and among them is a charge of six shillings for two " pilaren " (pillars).


November, A. D. 1741, Hereunder stand the persons sub- scribed what they have promised for to roof the church and a free gallery for the Congregation."t (The list of subscriptions follows.)


A rudely drawn plan of the ground floor of the edifice is found on page 44 of the Church Masters' book, and a reduced copy of it is presented on the following page.


From this it appears that there were 26 pews, exclusive of the benches or pews along the walls, three being on either side of the pulpit, and two lines of ten each in front of the pulpit, and separated by the single aisle. The narrow space, about midway in the plan, probably represents a cross aisle, giving access to the seats along the wall. One of the pews against the wall is, in the


* Novemr Annog domini 1741 dan is dese onkosten van de ghementen ghe- dan an de Kerk hem te decken ende een neuwe galdery in te maken.


+ Novemr Annog domini 1741 hier onder stan de personen onder ghetickent wat sei Beloft hebben voor de Kerk te decken ende een vrije Galdery vor de gemente.


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GROUND PLAN OF FIRST EDIFICE.


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plan, marked "Justises Gestoelte " i. e. " Magistrates' Pew," and there is record of payment for the hinges and lock on its door .*


From this plan an approximate estimate can be made of the dimensions of this first edifice. Allowing three feet for each pew, (which, however, is a very liberal estimate, ) it was about 40 to 50 feet long and about 30 feet wide. Mr. Henry Dubois Bailey, in his "Historical Tales and Sketches," thus describes it. "The material of which the church was built was stone, with a hipped roof, and a moderate tower in front. The tower extend- ed above the peak of the roof a short distance, and there the bell was suspended, and over the same was a small, tapering spire, and surmounting that was the rooster." In a recent interview, Mr. Bailey informed the writer that this description was based on what purported to be a wood cut of the edifice, seen by him in a collection of the antiquarian relics of Dutchess County, which was on exhibition in Poughkeepsie some forty years ago. Of the ultimate fate of the first edifice we have no cer- tain knowledge. There is record of its repair in 1750. One of the deeds above quoted shows that it was stand- ing in 1756. An entry in the records, dated February 15, 1760, speaks of its walls as fallen, but says nothing of the cause or manner of their fall.


SECOND EDIFICE. 1760 ?- 1822.


The entry just referred to, and dated February 15, 1760, informs us that the consistory had resolved to build another House of the Lord, and called on the con- gregation to subscribe for its erection.


The consistory appointed, as the builders of the new edifice, Boudewyn Lacounte, Elias Van Benschoten,


* 1 pr hengelses en slootje voor de Justeses Stoel 6-0.


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Leonard Van Kleeck, and James Livingston, with in- structions to look to the consistory for money, to receive estimates from the consistory how far they should proceed in the building from time to time, and to render account to the consistory every three months. It was also stipulated that the pews should be given out by the casting of lots, and that every subscriber should have credit for the sum subscribed on the cost of his pew.


The sums subscribed range from ten shillings to twelve pounds.


The records do not enable us to determine when this second edifice was completed. It was built on a lot on the north side of Main street, (then called East Lane,) conveyed by Gale Yelverton by a deed dated October 25, 1760.


Its location is clearly shown on a map of the homestead of Baltus Van Kleeck, which was made by Henry Livingston in May, 1800, and is in the Records of the Office of the County Clerk. On this map the church is depicted as standing on the north side of Main street, (then called East street,) directly opposite to the east side of Market street, (then called the Stage Road or Main street.) There the grave stones still standing indicate the adjoining burial ground, and there, a few years ago, the remnants of the walls of the church could be distinctly traced. There are a few still living who worshipped in it, and it is described by them as built of stone, and standing some twenty or thirty yards back from the line of the street, and fronting south, towards Main street.


Of the interior of this edifice there is, in one of the church books, a plan, drawn by Dr. Livingston in 1782, of which a reduced copy is given on the following page.




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