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.