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From: Dorothy Koenig <>
Subject: Re: [D-Col] DUTCH REFORM CHURCHES IN NYC
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 15:14:16 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <001f01bfe534$28498470$164177d1@its>


Dear Regina, You asked, "I've seen many rather casual references to NY
DRC - are they referring to Manhattan churches only and are the Kings
County records available separately? If they are separate, are any of the
five available online?"

It is my impression that when people refer to "NY DRC" they are referring
to the published records of the original Dutch Church that was in New
Amsterdam. Records recorded up to 8 September 1664 took place in the New
Amsterdam Dutch Church. After that date they took place there in the same
church but now the Dutch Church of New York City. As you know, the
baptisms of this church were published by Samuel Purple, and the baptisms
through 1800 by the New York Genealogical & Biographical Society as
volumes 2 and 3 of their "Collections" series. They have been most
recently reprinted by Bob Griffin of Bergen Historic Books. The baptisms
and the marriages of this "NY [City] DRC" through 1800 are online (though
not under "official" auspices).

As for the 5 Kings County Dutch churches -- Brooklyn, Gravesend,
Flatlands, Flatbush and New Utrecht -- some of the baptismal records have
been published in various issues of the NYG&B "Record". The registers
kept by Domine Johannes Theodorus Polhemius are missing; he died in 1676.
The early records that do exist for Brooklyn were published in 1983 by the
Genealogical Publishing Company of Baltimore under the direction of The
Holland Society of New York. The same Society has also sponsored the
recent publication of the early Flatbush records, edited by Professor
David William Voorhees.

As far as I know, none of the records of the Kings County Dutch Churches
are available online.

Dorothy


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Dorothy A. Koenig
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