The parsonage between two manors; annals of Clover-Reach . ch at the Camp(Germantown), and at the request of their consis-tory was instrumental in obtaining for them a min-ister from Germany. Of these various churches on the outposts, whichwere preaching stations of Domine Gebhard, thereis only one, beside the well-known church in the oldfort at Schoharie, of which we have a full descrip-tion. This is the Ghent church built in 1775. Thisprimitive edifice was clapboarded in the early daysand unpainted. Like the Claverack church, it hadthe old-fashioned, high-backed pews and also pos-sessed a lo
The parsonage between two manors; annals of Clover-Reach . ch at the Camp(Germantown), and at the request of their consis-tory was instrumental in obtaining for them a min-ister from Germany. Of these various churches on the outposts, whichwere preaching stations of Domine Gebhard, thereis only one, beside the well-known church in the oldfort at Schoharie, of which we have a full descrip-tion. This is the Ghent church built in 1775. Thisprimitive edifice was clapboarded in the early daysand unpainted. Like the Claverack church, it hadthe old-fashioned, high-backed pews and also pos-sessed a lofty gallery on three sides, and a wine-glass pulpit reached by a winding flight of the pulpit and the preacher hung the inevita-ble sounding board, in this case suspended fromthe rafters by ropes attached to its four first records of the church were kept in Dutch,though the leaves of the old book, which was boundin vellum, and anti-dated the Revolution, bear acrown, and underneath in water marks upon its 54 Digitized by Microsoft®. THE OLD CHURCH AND PARSONAGE ANDWASHINGTON SEMINARY The view is taken Iroin the rear of the old parsonage, and g:ivesWashington Seminary in its earliest days.
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