Ecclesiastical Records

STATE OF NEW YORK

Published by the State under the supervision of

HUGH HASTINGS, State Historian

Volume IV

ALBANY

J. B. LYON COMPANY, STATE PRINTERS

1902

B.A

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

(All documents arranged under the heads of the respective governors, and in
chronological order.)

1725.

PAGE.

June 7 Dutch Church of New York. Information to be sought about

every farm on Fordham Manor, to regulate the leases..... 2309

8 Statement or Declaration of certain ministers, to those

"Cited" by Frelinghuysen and his Consistories, justifying

them in the Publication of their "Complaint" or "Reply

to the Letters of Citation".

.....

2309-2312

Certain Poems bearing on the case of Frelinghuysen and the

Complainants .

Preface to the Complaint

(June?)

Sept. 3

Oct.

Nov.

2312-2317

2317-2329

Acts of Classis. Call of Rev. R. Erickzon to the churches

of Hackensack, Schraalenberg and Paramus. Booklets pre-

sented to the Classis about the dissensions in the Churches

on the Raritan

... 2330

2331

4 Acts of the Deputies. Call of Rev. Henricus Coens to

Aquackononck and Belleville; and of Rev. R. Ericson to

New Barbadoes, or Hackensack. Their ordinations.......

5 Rev. John Jacob Ehle to Society for Propagating the Gospel. 2332

Report of the Deputies on the book styled " Complaint against

Frelinghuysen." Frelinghuysen and his Consistory, re-

quested to answer

....

-2332, 2333

2 Extracts from a. letter from the Raritan Complainants.

Apologizes for sending over the Complaint without a ictter.

Later events at Raritan. Rumors of denials of îne,acts

of suspension; Goelet's statements. Had locked up the

church against Frelinghuysen, but had subsequently lost

possession of it. Wish another minister from Holland.

Dutch churches subject to another Civil Power; yet almost

all depend on Classis of Amsterdam. Does Frelinghuysen

still belong to the Dutch Church? What would now be

done with a minister in Holland, who followed the Laba-

dists and Mennonites. Ask for extracts of their Acts ap-

pointing Frelinghuysen; and for speedy advice. This let-

ter endorsed by Du Bois, Boel, Antonides and Vas... 2333-2335

Rev. Wm. C. Berkenmeyer at Quassaick, occasionally,

1725-1731

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