Dear Christy, > I was reading The Van Voorhees Family in America and on page 733 I > found the following: > > 6857. ii. Gitty Voorhis; born circa 1817; married Edw. Hedden. According to George Warne Labaw in his: "Preakness and the Preakness Reformed Church, Passaic County, New Jersey : a history 1695-1902 : with genealogical notes, the records of the church and tombstone inscriptions" New York: Board of Publication of the Reformed Church in America, 1902, page 83 Gitty/Gertrude [aka Charity] Voorhees, the daughter of Albert P. Voorhees (1794-1819) and his wife Christina Berdan of Preakness, married Edward Hedden. Gitty's sister Mary married David Hedden, the brother of Edward. Gitty/Gertrude Voorhees was the granddaughter of Peter A.Voorhees (1773-1860) and his 1st wife Gertrude Berdan. The 1900 census also tells us that Gertrude/Gitty Voorhees and Edward Hedden had only one child who survived infancy, and that was Mary Hedden, who married Joseph Vail Ash. 1900 > NEW JERSEY > ESSEX > 9-WD NEWARK Series: T623 Roll: 964 Page: 55 Joseph V. Ash, Head, age 59, b Dec 1840; mrd 38 yrs; Machinist Mary E. Ash, Wife, age 58, b Apr 1842; 9 children, 7 living Ida E. Ash, Dau, age 25, b Dec 1874 Gertrude M. Ash, Dau, age 15, b May 1885 Gertrudy Hedden, Mother-in-Law, age 82, b Dec 1817; Widowed; 2 children, 1 living Edward {Edwin] Hedden was born 9 Jan 1807 in Newark [no source] and died before the 1850 census [some say as early as 1834, but I think that must have been closer to 1844]. He was probably the son of Cyrus Hedden and Huldah Tichenor, and his brother David was born 25 March 1814 and married Mary Voorhees 4 July 1844. Charity Hedden and her daughter Mary appeared in the 1860 census thusly: 9 July 1860 1860 > NEW JERSEY > ESSEX > 5-WD NEWARK Series: M653 Roll: 688 Page: 601 Charity Hedden, age 46, Tailoress Mary Hedden, age 18, Shirt maker Mary Hedden married Joseph V. Ash in 1862. 22 Jun 1870 1870 > NEW JERSEY > ESSEX > 10-WD NEWARK Series: M593 Roll: 881 Page: 364 Joseph Ash, age 29, Policeman Mary Ash, age 27, K.H. Elizabeth Ash, age 7 George Ash, age 4 Walter Ash, age 2 Emma Ash, age 1 month [Apr] Charity Hedden, age 54, Tailoress 1 June 1880 1880 > NEW JERSEY > ESSEX > NEWARK Series: T9 Roll: 778 Page: 242 [partially blacked out] Joseph E. Ash, age 34, Bit maker, b NJ/PA/NJ Mary Ash, age 38, K.H.; b NJ/NJ/NJ Elizabeth S. Ash, Dau, age 17, K.H. Georgia E. Ash, Dau, age 14, Button maker Walter V. Ash, Son, age 12, at school Joseph H. Ash, Son, age 7, at school Emma F. Ash, Dau, age 10, at school Ida S. Ash, Dau, age 5 Edward D. Ash, Son, age 4 months [Feb] Charity Hedden, Mother-in-Law, age 64 You asked about the church they may have attended, and I found the following list of Houses of Worship in Newark; there appear to be 3 Dutch Reformed churches, but I'd have no way of knowing if the Ash family were members of any of them. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~njessex/towns/newark/how.htm Hope this helps get you started in the right direction. Regards, Pam Sears