. History of Columbia County, New York. With illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers . e of this and ofthe former parcel of three morgans was the act of ColonelJolin Van Rensselaer. The choice of a site for theirchurch gives high testimony to the taste of the buildingcommittee, Messrs. Hendrick Van Rensselaer, Jacob Philip,and Jeremiah Ten Broeck; yet how often is it that whatall posterity will applaud can only be carried throughagainst strenuous opposition I The change of location ex-cited so much disgust among those who never like to seeany change, a
. History of Columbia County, New York. With illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers . e of this and ofthe former parcel of three morgans was the act of ColonelJolin Van Rensselaer. The choice of a site for theirchurch gives high testimony to the taste of the buildingcommittee, Messrs. Hendrick Van Rensselaer, Jacob Philip,and Jeremiah Ten Broeck; yet how often is it that whatall posterity will applaud can only be carried throughagainst strenuous opposition I The change of location ex-cited so much disgust among those who never like to seeany change, and those who deemed themselves incom-moded by it, that some never forgave it, and are notknown to have ever entered the new church door. Par-ticularly was the feeling inflamed against Mr. Van Rens-selaer, whose elevated and canopied pew thenceforth be-came so obnoxious to one of his humbler neighbors thatshe uttered the iconoclastic threat of taking an axe tochurch and hewing it down. A still more disgraceful tra-dition has been handed down of personal violence inflictedupon Mr. Van Rensselaer by a leading member of one of.
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