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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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Deacons.
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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