Forwarded.....Unc ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 9:33 PM Subject: {not a subscriber} Baptisms in 1790 North Hempstead, where? > John Hidendries is enumerated in the 1790 census of North Hempstead, Queens > Co NY with one male over 16, presumably himself, one male under 16, > presumably a son, and two females, presumably a wife and daughter. In a will > written 01 April 1798, proved 18 May, 1798, a John Hendrickson of Hempstead > Harbor, Queens Co names as beneficiaries, his wife Abigail, and children (in > the order listed): Abraham, John, William, Elizabeth, Peter and Charles. No > ages are listed in the will's abstracts or, as Nancy's suggested, in typed > copies of the original will. > > I have hypothesized that John Hindendries and John Hendrickson are the same > person based on identical names in the will's executors/witnesses and the > neighbors in the census. I would like to check baptism records of the > children and would appreciate the names of churches that a resident of > Hempstead Harbor might use to baptize his children in 1790-1798. I suspect > that it might have been a Reformed Dutch Church based on the Dutch-like > spelling in the 1790 census, although that might just represent the heritage > of the census taker, not the one enumerated. Thanks for any > suggestions/comments. > > Lyle Hendrickson >