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P. 5. " It is not pretended that there are definite records of 

 the estabhshment of a Church of our Denomination (Dutch Re- 

 formed) on this Island two hundred years ago." . . . 



P. 29. " The first Church ever built on the Island was the little 

 Church of the Waldenses at the settlement spoken of." 



He refers to the settlement founded by Stuyvesant about 1662 

 at which ten soldiers were stationed, which we and others identify 

 as Old Town. " It cannot be ascertained where this was situated, 

 but tradition points to a spot on Flatbrook, south of what is known 

 as " Black Horse " . . . " The County-seat was also formerly lo- 

 cated near the same place." ... 



P. 30. It is known that Dom. Drisius preached to the church 

 first spoken of (Church of the Waldensians at the settlement men- 

 tioned) for a considerable time, at intervals of a month or two 

 months ; and it is from inference that we conclude that a little 

 church was organized, there and then, probably in 1664 or 1665. 



105. 1875. Extract from address delivered in the Reformed Church, 

 Port Richmond, by Rev. James Brownlee D.D., on the fortieth 

 anniversary of his settlement, N. Y., 1875 : " It is known that the 

 Rev. Samuel Drisius, who was one of the pastors of the Dutch 

 Church in New York, then New Amsterdam, from 1652 to 1682, 

 preached regularly once a month to the Waldenses on Staten 

 Island, from about 1660 onward." 



106. 1877. "About the year 1665, the first church edifice built on 

 the Island was the French or Waldensian Church at Stony Brook. 

 . . . About the same year, 1665, there was another church built 

 on the Island. This was a Huguenot church, and stood near the 

 Fresh Kills, on what is now known as the Seaman farm." (Clute 

 255-) 



107. 1887. " Subsequently in 1651 when the Waldenses arrived." 

 (Bayles 81.) 



108. 1898. "Ye settlement [Stony Brook] Is located on a brook 

 from which it derives its name. Ye chu*" is small and built of 

 stone, . . . erected when ye village was founded in 1658." 

 (Morris i : 44.) 



109. " It is said that in 1680 the scattered people had at last erected 

 two houses of worship at points convenient for them to gather. 

 One of these was at Fresh Kills in Westfield township, to which 

 church came as pastor, in 1697, the Rev. David Bonrepos, who 



