Thanks very much Linda, these names will be a great help! Perhaps now some of the names on the census will start to make sense, lol. Joyce ----- Original Message ----- From: <LindaBch@aol.com> To: <NJMONMOU-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 1:59 PM Subject: [NJMONMOU] old monmouth names in here! > > History of Queens County > The Reformed (Dutch) Church of Jamaica > > The organization of this church at Jamaica is veiled in obscurity. It seem > to have Occurred before 1702, for the first record of baptism is dated June > 1st of that year. > But long before this time the Dutch had gradually been emigrating from Kings > county into the western part of Queens, for we find twenty-one Dutch names > among the contributors of a free gift (January 21st 1694) to Rev. Mr. > Phillips, the Presbyterian minister at Jamaica. As there was a church built > at the common expense of the town in 1600 it is probably that the Dutch > ministers from New York and Kings county whenever they visited Jamacia > officiated in it for the Dutch congregation, as one of the (Antonides) > certainly did on Sunday September 20th 1709. In 1774 the congregation paid > L40 New York money for their share of the services of the ministers of Kings > county. > April 29th 1715 the elders and deacons of the Dutch congregation > throughout all Queens county resolved unanimously to build a church at > Jamaica. The sum of L361.18.6 was raised by subscription. The surnames of > the subscriptioners were Adriance, Ammerman,Antony, Atten,Barid, > Barentse,bas, Beekman,Bergan, Berrien,Blaw, Blom, Boerum, Boog, > Bras,Brinkerhoff,Burtis, Carpenter,Cockefer, Cornell, Covert, > Crankheid,Demott, Ditmarse, Doesenburg, Dortlandt, Dreck, Dowe, Elderse, > Edsall, Forest, Fortheisen,Fyn, Gennon, Gerritse, Glean, Goetbloet, Haff, > Hardenburg, Hagewout, Haviland,Hendrickson, Hegeman,Hoogelandt,Jansen, > Kip,Kolyer,Loosie, Lott,Lammerse,Lucasen, Luyster,Masten,Monfort, > Montante,Norstrandt,Onderdonk,Polhemus, Probasco, Rapelye, Remsen,Reicke, > Robertsen, Ryder, Schenck, Smith, Snedeker, Springsteen, Stevense,Teller, Van > Cleef, Vanderbuilt, Van Hock, Van Leuwen, Van Lettingen, Van Nostrand, Van > Wicklen, Van Wyck, Wiltse and Willemsen. > >