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Collegiate (Dutch) Church of New York City (continued)
Tesschenmaker to be minister at New Castle, Delaware, their act approved by the Classis of Amster- dam, (1679) 724-35, 737, 739; proposals to raise funds to erect a new Dutch church in the city, (1680) 743, 880; Governor Andros gives unused "redemption money " to the Dutch church toward build- ing a new church, (1690) 996; this money confiscated by Leisler, (1690) 1397, compare 1061, 1065
Van Nieuwenhuysen and Van Zuuren write a joint letter to the classis thanking them for endors- ing their act in ordaining Tess- chenmacher, relation of the Dutch churches to the English govern- ment and to the English ecclesias- tical system, desirability of a yearly conference among the Dutch churches, about 1500 members in all, some walk eight or ten hours to attend a service, the Dutch can hardly expect financial support from the English government, (1680) 753-55, 782-83; consistory writes to classis, death of Van Nieuwenhuysen, 450 members de- prived of regular services, au- thorizes classis to call another minister, salary, 1000 guilders, with house and fuel, would be glad to have Domine Selyns, (Feb. 25, 1681) 759-62, 769, 777, 780-83, 785, 787, 818; Van Zuuren supplies the church occasionally, 776, 787, 793; commissioners in Amsterdam propose a contract with Selyns, (Dec. 10, 1681) 797-803; contract approved in New York, (Nov. 15, 1682) 799-800; civil fines given to the church toward erecting a new building, (1682) 801; a par- sonage in preparation, 804-5, 841- 42, 866; Selyns accepts the call, dismissed from his congregation, 801-3, 805-6, 809-10, 811, 816,
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818, 822-23, 848; his departure for New York, (Apr. 1682) 811, 823; his arrival, 828
Prosperity of the church: letters of Selyns to classis, (1682) 827- 34, 836-37, 842, 851-55, (1683) 865-69, 872-73, 879, 881; receives the Manor of Fordham, (1684) 888-98, 934, 936, 944, 947, 494-50, 960, 1035; deacons must no longer act alone as trustees of property without consultation with the elders, (1685) 897-98; petition pre pared to the Common Council for a site for a new church building, but finally not presented, (1686) 929-30; need of new church build- ing, (Dec. 1687) 950-51; petition to Governor Dongan for a charter, (Apr. 1688) 952-53; petition to the Common Council for a build- ing site, (Apr. 1688) 953-54; gen- eral condition of the church, (Oct. 1688) 957-59, 960, 969, 984; claims made against the Manor of Fordham, (1688) 960; the Leisler troubles with great confusion in the church, delay in securing the charter and in erecting a new building, (1689-91) 963-73, 977- 92, 993, 995-1017, 1020-21, 1923- 24, 1027-29, 1030-32, 1036, 1041- 44, 1131-32, 1397
A new Dutch church to be built in Garden street, a plan to be pre- pared, building-masters appointed, (Dec. 1691) 1030; lot purchased of the city, conveyed to the church- masters as trustees, (Feb. 1692) 1032-33; moneys of the consistory to be brought into one treasury, but without detriment to the poor fund, (Mar. 1692) 1034-35; the loss of the Manor of Fordham in a lawsuit, to be appealed, (Mar. 1692) 1035; the trouwbosch (mar- riage treasury) opened, (Mar. 1692) 1035-36
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Collegiate (Dutch) Church of New York City (continued)
Domines Selyns, Varick and Dellius write to the classis, of the sufferings of the ministers and churches during the Leisler troubles, (Oct. 12, 1692) 1041-44, 1047; the sympathy of the classis, (Apr. 1693) 1054-60; new a church edifice of stone in course of erection, 1043; subscriptions to ransom captives in Morocco, (June, 1693) 1061-65; the ministerial maintenance bill, (Sept. 1693) 1076-79; Selyns and Varick write to classis, large arrearages in their salaries, 1087; Selyns had sent classis in 1690, a copy of Eliot's Indian Bible, which was probably captured by the French, (Nov. 20, 1693) 1089-90, 1100-1; statement of arrearages of Selyns's salary, (1682-94) 1092; Selyns informs classis of Bertholf's preaching in Bergen county, N. J., of Domine Varick's death, of the improving condition of his own church, (Nov. 14, 1694) 1106-9; a new formal conveyance by Domine Selyns and wife (who was formerly Mrs Steen- wyck), of the Manor of Fordham to the church, (Jan. 1, 1695) 1109-12; examination and license of Gualterus DuBois, (Apr. 1695) 1113-14; the church presses its right for a charter, (Apr. 18, 1695) 1116-17; only members of the church [or congregation] may be commissioned to lease lands on the Manor of Fordham, (Apr. 1695) 1117; Collegiate Church ap- proved of the call of the churches of Kings county, L. I., on Rev. Casparus Van Zuuren, (May 1695) 1117-20, 1122; final account of the cost of building the Garden
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street church, (June 1695) 1123; arrearages of salary of Selyns paid in part, 1123; petition for a char- ter renewed, (June 19, 1695) 1127- 28; the charter granted, text of the same, (May 11, 1696) 1136-65; action of consistory thereon, (July 16, 1696) 1167-68; allusions to the charter, 1204-12, 1218, 1228- 33, 1242; obscure allusion to the charter of the Dutch in the closing paragraph of the charter of Trinity Church, (1697) 1165; a service of silver plate given to Governor Fletcher, instead of the usual fee, for signing the charter, (July 26, 1696) 1168-69; Selyns informs the classis of the general condition of the church, of the charter of his own church with its special privileges, of several English (dis- senting) preachers in New Nether- land, of two Anglican churches in the city, one in the fort, (the new Anglican chapel recently built there), and one in course of erec- tion on Broadway (Trinity Church), of two Anglican min- isters, who temporarily use the new Dutch church after his own morn- ing and afternoon services, of four French ministers and their locali- ties, (Sept. 30, 1696) 1171-73, 1176, 1187-88;ª a loan made to certain parties in Albany who had been robbed, (1696) 1176; classis congratulates Selyns on their char- ter, on payment of arrearages of salary, on the progress of the kingdom through English and French ministers, (June 10, 1697) 1182-84; list of nineteen docu- ments relating to the efforts of the consistory to call a colleague to
a Mr Vesey, subsequently rector of Trinity Church, did not acknowledge the chapel in the fort, for the troops, as a separate church; the two ministers referred to are Rev. Symon Smith and Rev. Edmund Mott, chaplains; the four French ministers are Daille, Peiret, Morpo, and Bondet. See these names in Corwin's
Manual.
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Selyns, and of the impediments thrown in the way by a faction in the church, (Aug. 19, 1697-Nov. 19, 1698) 1189-1213, 1265-69, 1332, 1344, 1349
Consistory resolves to call a second minister, (Sept. 15, 1698) 1214; one treasury of all the funds of the church, 1202; abstract of Selyns's account of the difficulties resulting, (May 4, 1698) 1228-89; Selyns urges Domine Verdieren to accept the call, if declined, he re- quests classis to call a suitable minister, draft of 200 guilders sent to cover incidental expenses, the legality of the call, three Jesuits had recently visited the city, the Labadists have gone to Maryland, the Quakers are disappearing, a second copy of Eliot's Indian Bible sent to classis, 65 children repeated the entire Psalter, names given, (Sept. 14, 1698) 1230-40; arrear- ages of salary to be made up from the deacons' fund, (Sept. 1698) 1242; request made that the bodies of Leisler and Melbourne (executed in 1691) be buried under the church, consent neither given nor refused, (Oct. 14, 1698) 1242; Governor Bellomont's account of the reburial, 1245-46; correspond- ence between the Consistory of the Dutch Church of New York and the Dutch Church of London con- cerning the call of a colleague to Selyns, (Oct. 18, 1698) 1243-44, 1264-77; answer of the London Church, (May 1699) 1300-1
The Leisler faction sends an elaborate letter to the classis, as if official from the consistory, re- counting their side of the case, (Oct. 21, 1698) 1246-62, 1295; the churchmasters authorized to lease lands in the Manor of Fordham, (Oct. 1698) 1263; consistory
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writes to classis; alludes to Selyns's gift of Eliot's Indian Bible to classis, : refers to the troubles caused by the Leislerian faction, have sent a full transcript of all the documents both to classis and to the Dutch Church of London, the Leisler faction professes sub- ordination to classis, hopes for help from the king, technical ob- jections of the opposition, (Dec. 15, 1698) 1278-82, 1287-88
Domine Verdieren declines the call to New York, another to be sought, (Apr. 1699) 1286-87; classis thanks Selyns for the In- dian Bible, congratulates him on the industry of his catechumens, grieved at the schism in the church, will seek another minister for them, (Apr. 23, 1699) 1294- 96; Rev. Gualterus DuBois called to New York, (1699) 1297-98; church informed, excellent choice, (May 1699) 1304-5; his ordina- tion, (June 1699) 1315-16; church anticipates his coming, (Aug. 1699) 1332; indorses Dellius on his mission to Holland, in opposi- tion to Bellomont, 1321-25; con- sistory pays certain quitrents, 1338, see 163-64; the Leislerian faction anticipates the regular ac- tion of consistory, in thanking classis for DuBois, (Mar. 1700) 1346-48, 1354, 1363, 1366, 1428; classis notifies Consistory of New York of the irregularities of Domine Freeman, and requests them to send him back, 1348-49; the consistory formally thanks classis for calling DuBois, well pleased witlı him, refer to the let- ter of the faction, anticipating their action, 1346; signed as if official, desires the views of classis upon all the proceedings, (Apr. 1700) 1353-57, 1362, 1363, 1366-67
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Collegiate (Dutch) Church of New York City (continued)
Selyns and DuBois write to the Consistory of Schenectady about their call of Freeman, importance of ecclesiastical regularity, (Sept. 4, 1700) 1384-85; also write to classis on same topic, 1386-88; both parties in the New York church satisfied with DuBois, classis considers the subject closed, (Dec. 6, 1700) 1428-29; troubles in the church after the death of Bellomont, 1441-42
Old poorhouse and grounds to be sold, new site to be bought and a new poorhouse built, (1701) 1460-62; fees fixed for certificates of baptism, of church membership, of marriage and of record of bans, 1480; strangers wishing to become members of church must bring wit- nesses of character, 1480; consis- tory only to choose churchmasters, (1701) 1481; nonsalary payers to lose their pews, 1482; elders and deacons must subscribe to the reso- lutions of consistory before taking office, 1484-85; death of Domine Selyns, DuBois recognized as first pastor, he is requested to delay seeking a colleague, (Oct. 1701) 1484-85; church gives £57, 4s to church of Schenectady toward building, (1701-2) 1487; consis- tory resolves that the "Arms " (wapen) of Leisler and Milbourne, may remain in the church, and their bodies remain undisturbed under the church, so long as their friends may desire, (May 24, 1702) 1490a; elders may be chosen to office without first having been deacons, 1502; Cornbury's instruc-
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tions about the appointment of schoolmasters amended b the Assembly, (1702) 1509-11; consis- tory sells old poorhouse, (Jan. 1703) 1514, 1802; the church- masters to be sole judges of what repairs are necessary to the prop- erty, 1515; Peter J. Marius wills £100 to the church for ministerial support, (Mar. 12, 1703) 1518-19; committee of Trinity Church to meet with committee of Dutch church to adjust certain claims as to ownership of graveyard, (Oct. 19, 1702) 1519৳; church gives £9, 7s, 712d to A. Rutan, of Hack- ensack, 1520
Elder Nicholas Bayard cleared of certain illegal charges, after a false imprisonment and sentence to death, (1703) 1529, 1543, 1596, 1599; Madame Knight's allusion to Collegiate Church in her descrip- tion of New York, (1704) 1550- 51; the consistory to meet four times a year and the churchmasters to meet with them, and have a de- ciding vote, (May 1709) 1558-59, 1992-93; Domine DuBois forwards Kingston's call for a minister to the classis, 1563, 1571; the church claims her right, by her charter, to appoint her own schoolmasters without interference from the governor, (Jan. 1705), 1584-85; the churchmasters to meet on the first Friday of each month to at- tend to their special business and dispose of sittings in the church, (Mar. 1705) 1585; ministers shall have only one vote at the election of elders and deacons, (Oct. 1705)
a Leisler and Milbourne were executed in 1691 and were buried under what is now the rear of the Tribune Building. In 1698 their bodies were exhumed and forcibly buried under the floor of the Dutch church in Garden street, against the protests of the consistory, the vestry of Trinity Church, and the respectable citizens generally. Selyns having died, this action was taken to prevent the re- opening of the question of their removal.
b This relates to about 70 feet of the northern end of present Trinity church- yard.
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Collegiate (Dutch) Church of New York City (continued)
1596-97 ; insulting conduct of Gov- ernor Cornbury to Domine DuBois when presenting Domines Beys and Antonides to him, (1706) 1615-19; the consistory issues a circular letter to all truth-loving persons, concerning the circum- stances connected with the instal- lation of Freeman, by DuBois, over the church of New Utrecht alone, to the exclusion of the other churches of Kings county, (Feb. 19, 1706) 1631-35, 1642; consistory writes to classis on account of the troubles on Long Island, the rude- ness of Governor Cornbury, and the general condition of the churches, (May 1706) 1646-53, 1699; the special condition of the church of New York, 1653-54, 1700; DuBois had published a Com- pendium of Christian Doctrine, 1653, 1700; special paper by Domine DuBois on the " State of the Dutch Church" in its relation to the English governors, (May 24, 1706) 1657-60; his special request for redress, in various particulars, from the government of England, through the classis, 1660-62; Du- Bois and his consistory counsel Domine Beys to be patient with Cornbury's arbitrariness, 1664; Cornbury finally compelled to yield and allow Dutch ministers to offi- ciate without a civil license, (June 1706) 1667-68; Messrs Makemie and Hampton, two Presbyterian divines, solicit the use of the Dutch church, for services, granted, if the governor consents, (1706) 1669-71, 1681-82; legal opinion given against Cornbury's attempt to control the affairs of the Dutch churches, (Jan. 8, 1707) 1679-80; DuBois indorses Antonides's ac- count of the source of the troubles in Kings county, 1681, see 1639-45;
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regulations about the baptism of illegitimate children, (1707) 1689; classis is expecting a deliverance from Pensionary Buys (great counselor of Holland), on the re- ligious liberties of New York, 1682, 1689, 1702; characterization of Cornbury, (1702-8) 1711
Classis laments the attempted de- struction of the liberties of the Dutch church, urges peace on Long Island, (Feb. 1709) 1716-20; clas- sical letters tampered with, 1723; letters to New York captured on the seas, 1733; arrival of many Palatines in New York, 1724, etc., (see Palatines), the Assembly re- quest Domine DuBois to recommend a Dutch chaplain for Dutch troops going to Canada, effort of Paul Van Vleck to obtain ordination for this office, DuBois and Antonides refuse to ordain him on the As- sembly's order, (June 1709) 1760- 61; report of the circumstance sent to the classis, DuBois and An- tonides protested against the order but Freeman was willing, im- portance of a classis in America, (July 8, 1709) 1769-73; DuBois writes Kingston in connection with the trial of Domine Beys, (1709) 1794; Pensionary Buys promises assistance in reference to the liberties of the Dutch church in New York, (Oct. 1709) 1803, 1841; reasons of the delay, the matter to be presented at court in Eng- land, classis doubts the wisdom of an American Classis, (1710) 1845, 1857-58; correspondence with classis, (1711) 1878
No amounts of money under £50 shall be put out at interest except by unanimous vote, the communion table to be fenced to prevent confusion in approaching it, (June 3, 1711) 1883; the depu-
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Collegiate (Dutch) Church of New York City (continued)
ties of the synod have paid their respects to the lord counselor pen- sionary, and have requested him to speak on the liberty of the Dutch churches with Lord Marl- borough or Ambassador Townsend at the court of England, a writ- ten account of the American Dutch churches put into · his hands, (Sept. 30, 1711) 1887-88; the account books of the elders, almost full, to be transcribed, and kept in new books of the best kind, but no longer in guilders, but in pounds, shillings and pence, (Dec. 13, 1711) 1897; regulations made as to the succession of sit- tings in the church, (1712) 1903- 5; petition presented to the con- sistory for the calling of a col- league to DuBois, a church meet- ing to be called to consider it, (Feb. 1712) 1916, 1922; in com- ing to the Lord's table, members requested to approach it from the west side, and to leave by the east side, 1916; a bill presented to the Assembly to enable certain ones to dispose of the estate of Mrs Selyns, rejected, (Oct. 29, 1712) 1964-65; members of the great consistory, when invited to con- fer, to have an equal vote with members of the consistory, (Mar. 11, 1713) 1992-93, see 1584-85; members of the great consistory and members of the church are asked to bind themselves to sup- port a second minister, when called, (Mar. 11, 1713) 1993, 1999; church sends large supply of food to the Palatines, (1713) 2002-3; Henricus Boel presented to classis proper classical and ecclesiastical certificates and was received among the "Recommended," Oct. 2, 1713) 2009-10; the classis ad- vises DuBois to seek to obtain a
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colleague, (Jan 9, 1714) 2011-12; allusion to the new Dutch church, (1714) 2017-18; the Collegiate Church expresses her sympathy with Trinity Church on occasion of a malicious defilement of her premises, and if the governor offers a reward for the discovery of the offender, will contribute £15 toward the amount, (Feb. 15, 1714) 2021-22, 2027; classis in- forms DuBois of the plan of peace for Kings county which she has sent to those churches, desirability of a second pastor for New York, (Mar. 14, 1714) 2035-37.
Parties borrowing money of the deacons, to be notified that they must pay interest promptly or be prosecuted, the securities also to be notified, (1714) 2054-55; the churchmasters shall make no al- terations in the seats without per- mission of consistory, no action shall be valid except by a vote of a majority of elders, deacons and churchmasters, (Aug. 4, 1714) 2069; Domine DuBois de- clares in writing his desire for a colleague, all elders, deacons and churchmasters, before entering on their office must sign the call of the minister, the churchmasters are united with the elders and deacons in all their business, the great consistory indorsed the ac- tion of the consistory, and a call was prepared and sent to Holland, (Jan. 1715) 2076-77, see 1992, 2746; the text of the call, (Mar. 6, 1715) 2077-81, 2104; when the deacons render their accounts, each one shall present his individual account, (June 1, 1915) 2094; Du- Bois reports the restoration of peace on Long Island, refers to the call of his church for a col- league to him, apologizes that it
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is sent to individual members of the classis, instead of to the clas- sis as a body, settlement of an old dispute,« (Apr. 1, 1715) 2088-91, 2095; Henry Boel is ac- cepted by classis, as " Commended for Foreign Lands," (Oct. 7, 1715) 2097; when one is elected to an office in the church and declines, entirely new nominations must be made, 2100; money put out at interest to nonmembers of the Dutch church, must be charged eight per cent, 2100; list of churchmasters, (1715-1767) 2100- 1, see 2747; classis calls Rev. Henry Boel to be pastor in New York, he accepts the call, is ex- amined and ordained, agrees to correspond with classis, (Dec. 16, 1715) 2104-5; committee ap- pointed with power, to settle a certain difficulty, (1718) 2120; certain leases on the Harpending lots signed, (1719) 2139; other Dutch church charters modeled on the charter of the New York church, (1720) 2148, 2150-51, 2155; church of Raritan will not submit its affairs to the church of New York, (1723) 2206-7; £100 al- ways to be kept in treasury for emergencies, (1723) 2214; all church orders must be recorded, (1724) 2220; all church papers must be deposited in a chest, 2221; history of the suits as to the title of the Reformed Dutch church to its property, 2223-29; new arrangement as to the salary of Sexton Montagne, (1724) 2232; management of the church grounds, on the south side of Garden street, committed to the churchmasters, arrangements about pews, poor persons, coming
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under censure to forfeit their benefactions, (1724) 2235; legal decision that the church must pay its back quit rents on the Manor of Fordham, (1725) 2242-43
Domines DuBois and Boel, with other ministers sign a statement as to the irregularity of the cita- tions of the Raritan consistory, (1725) 2309-12; Barend DeForest appointed parochial schoolmaster, (1726) 2337-39; publication of his appointment, 2340-43; propo- sition to build a second church, (1726) 2343-44; ground pur- chased at Nassau and Cedar streets, 2358; second appointment of DeForest as schoolmaster, (Dec. 1726) 2374; contracts, for building second church, (1727- 29) 2381, 2390-91, 2395-97, 2405- 6, 2415, 2438, 2440; additional funds needed therefor, contribu- tions to be sought, (1729) 2449- 54, 2456-57, 2476, 2488-90.
Henry Michael Kock (Cook, Kuch) appointed organist, condi- tions, (1727) 2397-99, 2444-45, 2495; action about leases, (1728) 2400-1; expenses connected with funerals and burials, (1728) 2444; repairing church at Manor of Fordham, (1729) 2476; settle- ment of certain bonds, (1729) 2477-78; the ministers at New York authorized by the Classis of Amsterdam to ordain John Philip Boehm, of the German church of Pennsylvania, (1729) 2478-88, 2529; John P. Zenger, the printer, applies to the posi- tion of assistant organist, granted, (1730) 2495-96; rules about pews, (1730) 2516-19; letter from the classis to the ministers of New York, (Dec. 1730) 2528-
a This probably relates to the cessation of the Leisler faction by the death of Dr Kerfbyl.
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32; an amendment to the church
charter under consideration, (1731) 2551-52; minutes of the Synod of North Holland sent over, information sought about Weiss, (1731) 2559-60; salary of Van Aarnheim, chorister in the New Church, (1731) 2563; Van Hoek, sexton in the New Church, regu- lations about pews, (1731) 2562- 63; an additional minister desired, Domine Haeghoort under consid- eration, (1732) 2570-71, 2573-75; a call made on Haeghoort, (Apr. 1732) 2577-79; assistant organist, Zenger, asks for some compensa- tion for his services, (1732) 2579; address of the consistory to Governor Cosby, (1732) 2599- 2600; conditions for the sale of vaults around the New Church, (1732) 2613-14; De Forest, the clerk, a prisoner for debt, asks assistance, denied, Isaac Stouten- bergh appointed in his place, (1733) 2614-15; affairs of the Manor of Fordham, (1733) 2624- 25, 2627, 2629, 2641; contract with Gerrit Van Wagenen as schoolmaster, (1733) 2626-27; second appointment of Van Aarn- heim as chorister in the New Church, (1733) 2628; letter re- ceived from Classis of Amster- dam, (1733) 2629-31; consistory takes action about holding a coetus, (Mar. 1737) 2679-86; two elders appointed to attend a meet- ing to organize a coetus, (1738) 2701, see Coetus, American Clas- sis, Conferentie, Kings College.
Letter to, from classis, (1761) 3803, 3807-8; petitions for an English preacher, 3818; its char- ter does
not forbid English preaching, (1762) 3819, 3821, 3827-28, 3837-40, 3911; opposition
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to English preaching, (May 1762) 3819-21; fears for its charter; plan for saving its rights and privileges under the charter, (Dec. 1762) 3838-40; plan for the in- troduction of English, call of Dom- ine Laidlie, 3853-56, 3858-59; continued opposition, (Oct. 1763) 3889, 3914-15; the Heidelberg Catechism to be translated and an English psalm book with music, to be prepared, 3920-21, 3924; gallery to be put in the Middle Church, (1763) 3909, 3912; consistory compensates Domines Blinshall and Longueville, of Am- sterdam for the trouble taken in securing Domine Laidlie, 3921; selling pews in the Middle Church, [Nassau street], (1764) 3933-34, 3941; letter received from Classis of Amsterdam, 3947; German church land, Laidlie to render all the communion services in the Nassau street church, 3946; con- sistory receives three more letters from Amsterdam, two more dea- cons to be added to the consistory, 3947; arrival of Laidlie, introduc- tion to the church, gratitude of the consistory, 3947-48; De Ronde's "System of Truth " con- ditionally approved by classis, Laidlie refuses full subordination to the classis, 3967, 3972, 4005; Hardenbrook brings suit against the consistory, (1765), 3985-88; rights of the church under the charter, 4031; exchange of lots; certain ornaments given to the consistory, parties involved in the lawsuit to be relieved of costs, 3968, 3970; classis exhorts Laid- lie to join the conferentie, 3974- 75; petitions the Common Council for certain lots for a burial
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