. History of Queens County, New York, with illustrations, portraits, & sketches of prominent families and individuals . r Swamp. It was founded soon after1650, by the Dutch, for the purpose of affording protec-tion to their eastern border. A Dutch settlement hassprung up here, and from it The Reformed Dutch) Church of Oyster Bay. The house of worship is in Brookville. The churchtook its name, as was not unusual many years ago, fromthe township rather than from the immediate locality inwhich it was situated. On the 9th of September 1732 the people of VVolverHollow, Cedar Swamp (now Greenvale),
. History of Queens County, New York, with illustrations, portraits, & sketches of prominent families and individuals . r Swamp. It was founded soon after1650, by the Dutch, for the purpose of affording protec-tion to their eastern border. A Dutch settlement hassprung up here, and from it The Reformed Dutch) Church of Oyster Bay. The house of worship is in Brookville. The churchtook its name, as was not unusual many years ago, fromthe township rather than from the immediate locality inwhich it was situated. On the 9th of September 1732 the people of VVolverHollow, Cedar Swamp (now Greenvale), Eastwood (nowSyosset) and Matinecock (now Locust Valley) and vicini-ties met and decided to have a church of their were members of the Reformed Dutch church ofJamaica, more attended there, and most of them were ofDutch parentage and spoke the Dutch language; so thenew church was Dutch Reformed. For many years theservices were conducted in that language. At the meeting of the 9th of September 1732 a: sub-scription was started and it was determined to build ahouse of worship at once. On the 25th of the same.
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