Hi Mike, 37,61-63Listed in the GMNJ, 17:5-6, 32. in the Harlingen Church Records, are the lists of Pew Purchases for the Sourlandt RDC. and they were simply divided into Men's Places and Women's Places, no children's section. Families were buying and selling places. for instance: Men's Places: Gerret Dorlant, sold to Benneman Setven 1 place in No. 1; or Simon Van Aerd sold to Johannes Van Pelt 1 place in No. 10. More often than not, men were also doing the buying and selling in Women's Places, although some women did purchase their own. In this case, since they were building a new Church, who got what initially, was determined by the amount of money suscribed by the individual members. In addition, Each man involved in building the church were permitted to choose two places for their trouble, one man's and one womans. Since the method used is quite lengthy I won't go into it here, but all the money from the sale of places went to pay for the building of the church. Judy Apr 25, 2011 09:11:33 PM, [email protected] wrote: =========================================== The records of the Reformed Dutch Church of Flatlands includes a page listing pew rents (FHL Film 888716 pg 105). It lists names, number of places and the amount of money paid. Does anyone know at what age parents started paying pew rents for their children? Thanks. Mike Morrissey ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message