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Identifier: dutchnewyork01sing (find matches)
Title: Dutch New York
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Singleton, Esther, d. 1930
Subjects: Dutch Americans -- New York (State) New York New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs To 1775 New York (State) -- History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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city to Evening Service. In addi-tion to the household there are over forty negroes whoselocation is the Negro quarter. There is no consistory here,but the deacons of New Amsterdam provisionally receivethe alms offerings, and there are to be neither elders nordeacons there. Besides me there are in New Nether-lands DD Johannes Megapolensis and Samuel Drisiusin New Amsterdam; D. Gideon Schaets at Fort Orange;D. Joannes Polemius at Middelwout and N. Amersfortand Hermanns Blom at the Esopus. In 1664, he returned to Holland in the Beaver tovisit his aged father; and, after his departure, CharlesDebevoise, schoolmaster and sexton, conducted theservices. During his ministry Selyns married in NewAmsterdam, in 1662, Machtelt Specht, daughter ofHerman Specht, of Utrecht, ** a young lady of rarepersonal beauty and worth, to whom he wrote a poemthat has been much admired. Soon after he left. Dom-inie Drisius wrote of him to Amsterdam in warmterms of admiration of his preaching and pastoralvv^ork:
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FLOWERS JAN VAN HUYSAM RELIGION 197 He has attached very many unto him, among them anumber of the negroes, who are greatly grieved by hisdeparture. But considering the fact that he owes filialobedience to his parents it is the will of God that heshould leave us. He thinks it probable that the recently arrived son ofDom. Megapolensis will take charge of Brooklyn andthe Bouwerie; and adds that the French on StatenIsland would gladly have a preacher, but cannot affordto support one. Governor Stuyvesant allows Drisiusto go there and preach every two months and admin-ister the Lords Supper, but in the winter season it istroublesome on account of the great water of bay,which must be crossed, and the showers and storms,which occur. The English conquest put an end to the exclusivesway of the Dutch Reformed Church. Freedom ofworship was allowed to all congregations who caredto pay their own ministers. In 1669, Megapolensis wrote to the Classis of Am-sterdam complaining that the West India Comp

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