A Diary Of The Dutch Reformed Church Of West New Hempstead [New York]

A Diary of the Dutch Reformed Church of West New Hempstead [New York]; by B. Martha Slatery Erickson, Church Historian; 50 pp; 2000, Hardcover; 8.5x11; illus.; Item #NYGS03

In this volume, Church Historian B. Martha Slatery Erickson recounts the history of the Protestant Dutch Reformed Church of West New Hempstead, built in 1772 in what is now Rockland County and known as “The Brick Church.” Erickson also tells the history of its school. This hardcover volume includes a list of Revolution1ary War soldiers buried in the church’s cemetery, a list of pew sales around the time of 1824, and a marriage register that dates from the 1790s to the mid-19th century; the book is illustrated