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The Dutch Reformed Church went with migrants to the Americas, beginning in 1628 in New Amsterdam. St. St. Thomas Reformed Church, founded in 1660 in St. Thomas , Danish West Indies , [ 2 ] became the first Dutch Reformed Church in the Caribbean .
Aucke Janse Van Nuys (1622-1698) was a carpenter and a government official in New Amsterdam. He built the Brooklyn Ferry, the First Dutch Reformed Church in Flatbush, NY, the longest standing place of worship in New York City, and some of the earliest structures in what is now New York City. He was appointed town Shepen or Magistrate in 1673.
The English kept the island of Manhattan, the Dutch giving up their claim to New Amsterdam and the rest of the colony, while the English formally abandoned Surinam in South America, and the island of Run in the East Indies to the Dutch, confirming their control of the valuable Spice Islands. The area occupied by New Amsterdam is now Lower ...
The Collegiate Reformed Protestant Dutch Church is a Dutch Reformed congregation in Manhattan, New York City, which has had a variety of church buildings and now exists in the form of four component bodies: the Marble, Middle, West End and Fort Washington Collegiate Church, all part of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Churches of New York. The ...
Second Dutch Reformed Church (New Amsterdam) (c.1643) -- The second church was located within Fort Amsterdam's walls. The stone church had a spire with a weathercock, and was the tallest structure in the city. After the fall of New Amsterdam to the British, the structure was reused as a military garrison church for the Episcopal faith. [1]
Everardus Bogardus (27 July 1607 – 27 September 1647) was the dominie of the New Netherlands, and was the second minister of the Dutch Reformed Church, the oldest established church in present-day New York, which was then located on Pearl Street at its first location built in 1633, the year of his arrival.
It is suggested that the Dutch community in the New York area withdrew from the changed legal system that was now dominated by English juries, and instead turned to the Dutch Reformed church for their arbitration. [24] In 1673 there was a brief reoccupation of New Amsterdam by the Dutch, during which the Dutch system was reinstated.
It was long supposed that Bogardus was the first Reformed Church clergyman in the future United States, but the precedence of Michaëlius was established by a letter from him to Adrian Smoutius, dated New Amsterdam, 11 August 1628, which was found in the late 19th century in the Dutch archives at The Hague. In this letter he describes the ...