. History of Columbia County, New York. With illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers . giving the best expla-nation they could, and making the most humble apologies,they were severely reprimanded and allowed to return asbest they might, through the snow and ice, to Kinderhook. These facts show, beyond reasonable doubt, that at sometime during the last twenty years of the seventeenth cen-tury there was established at Kinderhook, under theauspices of the Albany church, a preaching station, whichwas the germ of the present REFORMED PROTESTANT DUTCH CHURCH
. History of Columbia County, New York. With illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers . giving the best expla-nation they could, and making the most humble apologies,they were severely reprimanded and allowed to return asbest they might, through the snow and ice, to Kinderhook. These facts show, beyond reasonable doubt, that at sometime during the last twenty years of the seventeenth cen-tury there was established at Kinderhook, under theauspices of the Albany church, a preaching station, whichwas the germ of the present REFORMED PROTESTANT DUTCH CHURCH,* which was formally organized in 1712, by Dominie PetrusVan Driessen, of that (Albany) church, although the con-gregation had been supplied with preaching before thisperiod by Rev. Van Driessen and his predecessor, Lydius. The first preserved records are datedMay 27, 1716, and contain the first consistory of thechurch here named : Stephanus Van Alen and Abram VanAlstyne, elders; Burger Huyck and Dirck Goes, male members, so far as can be ascertained now, I sketch by the jmstor, Rev. E. A. Colli. iENCi. OF DAVID W GARDENIER KlNOERHOOtf JV Y HISTORY OF COLUMBIA COUNTY, NEW YORK. 231 were J. L. Van Valkenbuigh, Peter Vosburgh, LawrenceVan Sehaack, Peter Van Buren, Bartliolomew Van Valk-enburgh, Jan. Goes, Peter Van Alen, Johannes Van Dusen,Johannes Van Alen, Joachim Lamberson, Thomas VanAlstyne, Isaac Vosburgh, Peter Van Slyck, LambertHuyek, Barent Van Buren, Matthew Goes, CorneliusSchermerhorn, John Van Alstyne, Lucas Van Alen, TobiasVan Buren, Jacob Van Alen, Hendriuk Gardenier, AbramV. Van Valkenburgh, Leender Connyn, Jacobus VanAlen, Aendries Prosie, Thenis Van Slyck, Thomas Wieler,Melchert Vandeipoel, and Abram Yansen. Preaching was supplied in connection with the Albanychurch, and by other supplies, among them Rev. JohnJacob Ehle, until 1727, when the Rev. Johannes , brother of the Albany dominie, who was ordainedto the holy office by
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