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Baptism and Marriage Records of the Dutch Reformed Church of New Netherland and Beyond

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This page is maintained by the WikiTree New Netherland Settlers Project to assist researchers in finding 17th- and 18th-century baptism and marriage records from the churches (primarily Reformed Dutch churches) of New Netherland and the "Dutch" community that survived in New York and New Jersey after Dutch control ended.

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Contents

New York

New York places are listed according to the earliest date for which records are available. (Note that in the early years, recordkeeping occurred only in a handful of churches that served large regions.)

New Amsterdam (New York) from 1639

The Reformed Dutch Church of New Amsterdam was organized in 1628, in the early days of the Colony. After British takeover, it became the Reformed Dutch Church of New York. It is also known as the Collegiate Church. The church registries commence in 1639.

  • Baptisms 1639-1730 - Evans, Thomas Grier. "Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New Amsterdam and New York. Baptisms from 25 December, 1639 to 27 December, 1730." Collections of the New-York Genealogical and Biographical Society. Vol 2. New York: Printed for the Society, 1901. Note: Vol. 2. Vol. 2, Part 1, covers 1639 through part of 1708 and Vol. 2, Part 2, contains part of 1708 through 1730, plus an index to both parts.
Copyable citation:
Evans, Thomas Grier. "Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New Amsterdam and New York. Baptisms from 25 December, 1639 to 27 December, 1730." ''[[Space:Collections of the New-York Genealogical and Biographical Society|Collections of the New-York Genealogical and Biographical Society]]''. Vol 2. New York: Printed for the Society, 1901.
Copyable citation:
Purple, Samuel S., editor. "Marriages from 1639 to 1801 in the Reformed Dutch Church, New York." ''[[Space:Collections of the New-York Genealogical and Biographical Society|Collections of the New-York Genealogical and Biographical Society]]''. Vol. 1. New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1890.

Flatbush (Vlacke bos) from 1654

Please note that the Flatbush records in the Year Book of the Holland Society are badly transcribed and should not be used to determine a last name at birth. There are preferred transcriptions for the years through 1720 in David William Voorhees' Records of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Flatbush, Kings County, New York. This compilation is not online, but it can be obtained from the Jacob Leisler Institute (https://jacobleislerinstitute.org/publications/). Some of the Voorhees records transcriptions are in the "The Brouwer Genealogy Database" at https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/genealogy/surname_index.htm
Another transcription that is available online:
See also: Wikipedia:Flatbush_Reformed_Dutch_Church_Complex

Kingston (original names Wiltwijck and Esopus) from 1659

Copyable source citation:
Hoes, Roswell Randall. ''[[Space:Baptismal and Marriage Registers of the Old Dutch Church of Kingston, Ulster County, New York|Baptismal and Marriage Registers of the Old Dutch Church of Kingston, Ulster County, New York]]''. New York: De Vinne Press, 1891.
See also: Wikipedia:Old Dutch Church (Kingston, New York)

Breuckelen (Brooklyn) from 1660

Please note that the Brooklyn records in this Year Book of the Holland Society are badly transcribed and should not be used to determine a person's last name at birth. The preferred transcriptions are in A. P. G. Jos van der Linde's New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch. Old First Dutch Reformed Church of Brooklyn, New York. First Book of Records, 1600-1752, but those records are not online. Some of the van der Linde transcriptions of the records are in the "The Brouwer Genealogy Database" at https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/genealogy/surname_index.htm
See also Wikipedia: Old_First_Reformed_Church

Gravesend from 1664

Records of the Society of Friends (Quakers):

Staten Island, Port Richmond, from 1680

See also: Wikipedia:Reformed_Church_on_Staten_Island

New Paltz from 1682

The records cover the period 1683-1816, but are missing between 1702 and 1730

Albany (Fort Orange, Beverwijck, Rensselaerswijck) from 1683

See also

French Church of New York, from 1688

Schenectady from 1694

Caution: Content published on some websites, including http://www.ancestralcurios.com/schenectady_baptisms.htm and https://homepages.rootsweb.com/~rbillard/schenectady_baptisms.htm, that is represented as "Schenectady baptisms" includes information extracted from Pearson's Contributions for the Genealogies of the Descendants of the First Settlers of the Patent and City of Schenectady that has been reformatted to resemble a church record. Baptism lists from those websites should not be treated as church records.

Note: Some later installments of Pearson's "Extracts From the Doop-Boek" omit the names of witnesses, which names can be found in other sources for Schenectady baptisms.

Note: This collection appears to be based on marriage banns registered at the Schenectady church; it does not seem to include marriages performed after the couple obtained a marriage license.
  • Ancestry.com now has images of Holland Society of New York transcriptions of Schenectady records that may not be available from the above sources (such as baptisms later than 1723).
  • Cormack, Marie Noll, Records of the First Dutch Reformed Church of Schenectady, 5 volumes, available on FamilySearch from https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/3694:

Tappan from 1694, and Clarkstown

Baptisms
  • History of Rockland County, New York, by David Cole. New York : J. B. Beers & Co. 1884. The history section of this book ends at page 344. After that there is a collection of baptism records, including Tappan Baptisms from 1694 to 1816, Clarkstown from 1749 to 1794, and an irregular congregation at Tappan from 1767 to 1778. Available at Hathi Trust and Archive.org (https://archive.org/details/historyofrocklan00cole_0/page/347/mode/2up - Tappan Baptisms 1694-1816 and https://archive.org/details/historyofrocklan00cole_0/page/54/mode/2up - Clarkstown from 1749-1794)
  • Kelly, Arthur C. M. Baptism Record of the Tappan Reformed Church, Tappan, Rockland County, NY: 1694-1899. Rhinebeck, NY: Kingship, 1998. Print version only.
Marriages:

See Dutch Reformed Church Records Clarkstown New York (archive.org URL for DutchDoorGenealogy.com content) for more recent records from Clarkstown.

Sleepy Hollow, Tarrytown from 1697

Jamaica from 1702

"Church Records in Greene County", from 1703 (mostly much later)

Modern Greene County includes towns of Ashland, Athens, Catskill, Cairo, Coxsackie, Durham, Greenville, Hunter, Jewett, Lexington, New Baltimore, Prattsville, and Windham.

Poughkeepsie from 1716

There are large gaps in the early Poughkeepsie Dutch Reformed Church records. The images on Family Search include handwritten transcripts from 1716, with gaps from June 1, 1725 to June 28, 1738, and from February 1745 to August 29, 1764.

Kinderhook from 1717

Kinderhook was a preaching station of Albany from 1700 to 1712. The Dutch church at Kinderhook was organized in 1712. Note that although the FamilySearch entries below place Kinderhook in Columbia County, it was part of Albany County until 1786, when Columbia County was formed.

New Utrecht, Long Island, from 1718

  • "Records of the Reformed Church of New Utrecht, Long Island," New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. 112 (1981), Issue 3, pages 130-134. Baptism records, 1718-1722. $subscription link to this issue. Note: The 1942 publication of these records in NYGBR has many errors and should not be used.
  • "Records of the Reformed Church of New Utrecht, Long Island," New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. 112 (1981), Issue 4, pages 205-211. Baptism records, 1723-1732. $subscription link to this issue.
  • "Records of the Reformed Church of New Utrecht, Long Island," New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. 113 (1982), Issue 1, pages 10-14. Baptism records, 1732-1736. $subscription link to this issue.
  • "Records of the Reformed Church of New Utrecht, Long Island," New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. 113 (1982), Issue 2, pages 74-80. Baptism records, 1737-1741 and 1776-1784. $subscription link to this issue. Note: There is a gap in the records from 1741 to 1776, during which time church events for New Utrecht probably were recorded at Flatbush, Flatlands, and Brooklyn.
  • "Records of the Reformed Church of New Utrecht, Long Island," New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. 113 (1982), Issue 3, pages 169-173. Baptism records, 1786-1795. $subscription link to this issue.
  • "Records of the Reformed Church of New Utrecht, Long Island," New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. 113 (1982), Issue 4, pages 220-222. Baptism records, 1796-1799. $subscription link to this issue.
The publication series continues beyond this list.

New Rochelle, French Church, from 1725

Claverack, from 1727

Note that Claverack was part of Albany County until about 1786, when Columbia County was formed.

Katsbaan (Saugerties), from 1730

Rhinebeck, Rynbeek, Reyn Beeck, Red Hook, Rhinebeck Flats, from 1730

[This section is under development.]

This group of localities in Dutchess County is complicated, from geographic, ethnic, and denominational perspectives. Additional research is needed to explicate the relationships between places, place names, and churches.

The villages of Rhinebeck and Red Hook were both in fhe town of Rhinebeck until 1812, when the town of Red Hook was split off from the town of Rhinebeck.[1]

According to the Documentary History of Rhinebeck (1881) by Edward M. Smith, pages 92, 94 and 97, as quoted in NYGBR Vol. ? (June 1965), page 102: The first Church in Rhinebeck, and probably in Dutchess County, was the High Dutch Reformed Protestant Church ... in the present Village of Rhinebeck. ... It came into the town with the German Palatines, and probably as early as 1715. There were among these people both Lutherans and Calvinists, and they built the first Church together, and remained joint owners until 1729, when contentions arising between them, they thought best for both parties to separate and to have a Church to themselves and the Lutherans sold out to the Reformed Protestants on the 10th day of December, 1729. ... After the separation, in 1730, a book of records was opened in the Reformed Church. The earliest baptisms in this book were recorded on 5 April 1730. Its title page is in German; in English translation it reads: General Church Book of the Reformed Congregation of Reyn Beek, Organized and Established by G. M. Weiss, Preacher for the time being for the Two Low Dutch Congregations at Kats Kill and Kocks Hocky. The early baptism records from this church were published in NYGBR under a title that identified the church as the Dutch Reformed Church of Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, N. Y. In June 1965 the title of the series was changed to identify the church as the German Reformed Church of Rhinebeck now St. Pauls Lutheran Church, Red Hook, New York, reflecting a determination that this had been a German church, not a Dutch church.

An editorial note in the introduction to "Baptisms of the Dutch Reformed Church of Rhinebeck Flats, Dutchess County, New York" (New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. 84 (1953), page 40) indicates: "This church was organized June 28, 1731, by the Rev. Petrus Vas of Kingston, Ulster County, New York. Its records will be found to tie in closely with those of the Kingston Dutch Reformed Church as well as with several other early Reformed and Lutheran churches on both sides of the Hudson."

The Ancestry.com database U.S., Dutch Reformed Church Records in Selected States, 1639-1989 ($subscription) has handwritten record transcripts by Holland Society identified with the title "Holland Society of New York; Reyn Beeck Redhook Book 40."

Records online on FamilySearch films:

Some WikiTree profiles indicate that a person had a life event in "Rhinebeck Falls." There are several waterfalls in this area, but the geographic meaning of "Rhinebeck Falls" has not been determined.

Fishkill from 1731

Schoharie from 1731

Catskill, Greene County from 1732

Linlithgo, Livingston Manor, Columbia County

Montgomery, Orange County, New York, from 1734

Not to be confused with Montgomery County

Newtown, from 1736

See also:
  • RECORDS OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, NEWTOWN (NOW ELMHURST), QUEENS COUNTY, LONG ISLAND, N. Y., The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record between April 1924 and October 1925. Republished online at http://longislandgenealogy.com/NewtownPresb.pdf
This church was founded in 1652. Membership records commence in 1708, baptism records in 1727, marriage records in 1709, and death records in 1728.

Marbletown, Ulster County

Flatlands (New Amersfoort), from 1747

Flatlands, also known as New Amersfoort, is in Kings County (now the borough of Brooklyn), adjacent to the similarly named Flatbush. The Flatlands church was established in 1654, but the earliest available compilation of baptism or marriage records begins in 1747.

Transcription by Peter Divine, July 2001, from LDS Microfilm #17637. This is a microfilm of a handwritten transcript in possession of the Holland Society of New York, New York City. The transcription of original records (and translation from Dutch to English) was done by Dingman Versteeg into a ledger book. Only the front-side of each leaf was used (only the odd-numbered pages), except for the frontispiece on page 152. The microfilming was done in reverse order, beginning with page 231 and ending with page 152.

Amenia, Dutchess County from 1749

Shawangunk from 1750

Schaghticoke, Rensselaer County, from 1750

Rochester, Ulster County

Not to be confused with Rochester, Monroe County

Wolver Hollow (Oyster Bay), from 1741

Wawarsing, from 1745

Caughnawaga (Fonda), from 1758

New Hackensack from 1758

Also see Holland Society transcriptions on Ancestry.com ($subscription)

Little Nine Partners, Bethel, Pine Plains, "Round Top" Church, Dutchess County, from 1760-1788

Hopewell, Dutchess County from 1766

New Hurley, Ulster County, from 1770

1145 Route 208, Wallkill, NY 12589
Church History: New Hurley Reformed Church, Our History, https://www.newhurleychurch.org/?page_id=7 , accessed 19 Feb 2023.
  • Records of the Dutch Reformed Church, New Hurley, Ulster County, N.Y., 1770-1864, Microfilm of handwritten transcript (215 p.) at the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, New York City, Contains baptisms with birth dates, 1770-1851; members, 1825-1864; excerpts from consistoral journal including pastors, officers, etc., scattered from 1774 to 1854. Family Search Film # 008139188, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSK3-8TTY?i=3&cat=190104 .

Schodack (also called Muitzeskill) from 1770

Boght (Colonie, Watervliet, Gibbonsville, West Troy, Washington, Port Schuyler, Cohoes, Groesbeck Corners) from 1784

Manhasset from 1785

Guilderland, Helderberg, Jerusalem, New Salem, Princetown (Albany County) from 1786

Saratoga (Schuylerville) Saratoga County, New York, 1790-1857

Bethlehem and Jericho from 1791

Kinderhook from 1795

  • Records of the Reformed Dutch Church of Kinderhook in Kinderhook, Columbia County, N.Y., 1716-1864, Vol. 3 of the records and the three volumes of the index., Baptisms and births from 1795-1864, Marriages 1799-1844, other records. Typescript edited by Royden Vosburg, 1921, Family Search Film # 007901013, Image 9 of 618, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS4R-W9YH-9?i=7&cat=141893 .

Harlem from 1806

This church was organized in 1660, but the earliest records still extant are from 1806.

  • Marriages 1816–36 are in New York Genealogical and Biographical Record volume 8 (1879)
  • Baptisms 1806–36, marriages 1807–14, members 1806–38, and accounts 1813–28, are in New York Genealogical and Biographical Record volumes 117–19 (1986–88).

Wynantskill, Rensselaer County, 1794-1867

Rensselaer County Church Records

Minaville, Montgomery County 1800-1875

Mapletown, Sprakers and Canajoharie, Montgomery County, 1803-1844

Nassau, Rensselaer County, 1804-1880

Glen, Montgomery County 1805-1882

Coxsackie, Greene County, 1811-1827

New Jersey

Note: The 1904 publication "Church Records in New Jersey," by William Nelson, catalogued the histories of the state's early churches and Friends meetings, with the status of their church records. See Journal of the Presbyterian Historical Society (1901-1930), Vol. 2, No. 4 (MARCH, 1904), pp. 173-188 (16 pages) at https://www.jstor.org/stable/23322557 for the first installment of the publication or https://books.google.com/books?id=e0JFAAAAYAAJ the full series of installments, packaged under one cover.

Ancestry.com has many New Jersey church records in searchable form, not all of which are listed below.

Acquackanonk (Passaic)

  • Holland Society of New York books, apparently beginning 1726, are on Ancestry.com in various forms. Search for records or browse the records in these databases ($subscription):
Acquackanonk (Passaic) I, Book 54;
Acquackanonk (Passaic) II, Book 55;
Acquackanonk (Passaic) III, Book 56;
Acquackanonk (Passaic), Book 57;
Acquackanonk (Passaic) Book 57A.
Also, in print form:
  • Kelly, Arthur C. M. (comp.) Vital Records of the Protestant Dutch Reformed Church at Acquackanonk (Passaic, New Jersey), 1727-1816 (Including Some Births 1692-1726) and Acquackanonk Reformed Church Graveyard. New York: Holland Society of New York, 1977 (in copyright, no eBook available as of 2022)

Bergen, from 1665

Also see:
Bergen Records: Records of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Bergen in New Jersey, 1666 to 1788, one-volume compilation of records, Genealogical Publishing Com, 1976. Partial contents may be available online at https://books.google.nl/books?id=p7gLgmpnowAC or https://books.google.com/books?id=p7gLgmpnowAC

Freehold and Middletown (Marlboro)

  • Ancestry.com has handwritten transcripts for Holland Society of New York, Freehold and Middletown, Part 1, Book 61A. Baptism records are for 1709-1851 (some periods are missing). Marriage records are for 1736-1851. $subscription
  • Records were published in installments in The Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey and are available on FamilySearch microfilm. The records are indexed, but the index record is linked only to the film, not the specific image on the film.

Hackensack, from 1686

Hillsborough (Millstone) [in Somerset County]

  • Earlier records from Milston (Harlington). formerly Sourland, are now available on Ancestry.com, referenced to Holland Society of New York; New York, New York; Milston Harlington NJ, Book 64. These records are handwritten transcripts of the church records. I think Milston (Harlington) is the same place as Hillsborough (Millstone); also called Harlingen. The baptism records now available on Ancestry commence in 1727. -Smith-62120 20:14, 23 February 2020 (UTC)

Neshanic [in Somerset County]

New Brunswick (in Middlesex County)

  • New Brunswick Dutch Church, marriages 1794-1799 (said to be the only surviving marriage register for this church), page 624
  • Christ Church, New Brunswick (Anglican), marriages 1758-1778, page 620
This is the volume that also includes New Jersey marriage licenses in the 1700s, after the Marriage Act of 1719
  • Baptisms - Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society via FamilySearch catalog:

Raritan (Somerville) [in Somerset County], from 1699

Readington, from 1720

Schraalenburgh

Second River (Belleville)

Six-Mile Run, from 1743

Miscellaneous New Jersey Records

  • Mercer and Somerset Counties, 1710-1715: Cook, Lewis D. "Baptisms, 1710-1715, Hopewell, Maidenhead, and Six Mile Run, New Jersey." The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .) Vol. 26 (1950), page 26.

Minisink Valley (Deerpark, Machackemeck, Walpeck; in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania)

The Minisink Valley is the Delaware River Valley region where the three modern states of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania come together. Due to the proximity to the boundary lines and historical boundary disputes between the colonies, it is not always practical to try to assign locations to a specific state. Records of the several churches that served this area are found in the same published compilations. The earliest church records date from 1716; records for this area before that date (and many records from later dates) are typically found in the Kingston, New York, church records book.

Also see: Smithfield, Pennsylvania:

Lutheran Church Records

New York City

Although its physical building was in the city of New York, this church served a much larger region. Its geographic ambitions are indicated by the title of the baptism section of the Year Book of the Holland Society of New York for 1903: "Baptismal Register of the Christian Protestant Lutheran Congregation at New York, Nova Caesarea [New Jersey], Albany, and other places belonging thereto in North America." Records of events often identify places other than New York, such as Hackensack, Claverack, Albany, and Loonenburg (place names have varying name spellings).

Albany, Albany County

Loonenburg (later known as Athens, Greene County)

Part of Albany County until the 1780s.

Marriages, 1705-1740: NYGBR, Vol. 73, No. 1 (Jan. 1942): pages 64-67

Schoharie

Brunswick (Rensselaer County) f. October 1777

Germantown (Columbia County) from 1746

Rhinebeck (Dutchess County) from 1733

West Camp, 1708-1729

Stone Arabia 1743-1750


Other Records

Schenectady, New York

Poughkeepsie, New York

Hyde Park, New York

Pleasant Valley, New York

Rombout, Dutchess County, New York

Round Top Lutheran, Pine Plains, Dutchess, New York


Connecticut

New Haven

Pennsylvania

General

  • Linn, John B, and William H. Egle. Record of Pennsylvania Marriages Prior to 1810: [and,] List of Officers of the Colonies on the Delaware and the Province of Pennsylvania, 1614-1776. Harrisburg: C.M. Busch, State printer of Pennsylvania, 1895. Print. https://archive.org/details/recordofpennsylv00linn

Bensalem, from 1710

  • "Records of the Dutch Reformed Church, Bensalem, Bucks County, Pennsylvania." Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine. Philadelphia, PA: Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, 1895–. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) Vol. 5 (1916), page 24 ff. Note: Some records are not in chronological sequence. Includes some records for places in New Jersey.

Smithfield, from 1741

Marriage records outside of churches

New Jersey Marriage Licenses, 1665-1800

  • Alphabetized list of New Jersey marriage licenses issued stated in the 1700s, after the Marriage Act of 1719, begins on page 1 (preceded by 126 pages of prefatory material)

Monmouth County, New Jersey

Somerset County, New Jersey

New York Marriage Licenses

Other Records Sources

FamilySearch

FamilySearch.org has indexed many records for which images may not be available online. Records at least partially available at FamilySearch include:

In New York Marriages, 1686-1980 https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1680847

Albany, Athens, Brazil, Catskill, Claverack, Coxsackie, Freehold and Middletown, Gansegat, Germantown, Hackensack, Harlingen, Kinderhook, Linlithgo, Machackemeck, Marbletown, New Utrecht, New York, Paramus, Poughkeepsie, Rhinebeck, Rochester, St. Johnsville, Schaghticoke, Schenectady, Southampton (Bucks, Pennsylvania), Tappan (Irregular), Walpack, Wolverhollow, Zion Lutheran (Loonenburg),

Records on FamilySearch films that are not indexed, but can be browsed, include:

Some of these are also available on Ancestry.com. For both FamilySearch and Ancestry, it is not always possible to look at the register lists; it may be necessary to do name searches.

New York Genealogical and Biographical Record...

Records that appear in issues still protected by copyright:

  • Claverack
  • Coxsackie
  • Jamaica
  • Rhinebeck
  • Lutheran, New York City 1725-1783

New York Genealogical & Biographical Society

Collection consists mainly of records transcribed by Royden Woodward Vosburgh. Some are indexed, all are browseable. Over 120 churches (Lutheran, Presbyterian, Reformed, Episcopal, Congregational) are included, many post-1800. Subscription required.

Kinship

Kinship, which now operates under the auspices of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, has published and sells books of transcripts or copies of many records (churches, cemeteries, tax lists, etc.) for New York, plus some records for other places in the U.S. and Canada, particularly places that experienced significant in-migration from New York. These records were compiled over several decades through the efforts of Arthur C. M. Kelly. Many of these records are unique to Kinship, but others are readily available from free sources or paid online sources. (It's a good idea to search elsewhere before you buy records from Kinship.) See https://kinshipny.com/ for information.

Other Published Books

Brooklyn Genealogy Website: New York Church Records page

Note: Quality of records/transcriptions from this source is not verified.

Records found here that may not be available elsewhere include:

  • New Amsterdam Dutch Church.
  • Jamaica Dutch Church.
  • New York French Church.
  • Staten Island Moravian Church.

Dutch Door Genealogy Website

Regina Haring maintained this resource. Offline as of early 2022, archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20210422165601/http://www.dutchdoorgenealogy.com/ and temporarily hosted at http://dutchgenie.net/bergen/DutchDoorGenealogy/ddg-home.html in preparation for a move to ngsbc.org website.

Site provides resources for Rockland County, New York, and Bergen County, New Jersey. Quality of records/transcriptions from this source is not verified.

Record sets that include pre-1800 content and may not be available elsewhere include:

  • Tappan and Clarkstown Reformed Dutch Churches, Marriages, 1699-1831; Clarksown continues 1831-1865
  • Tappan Cemetery Records
  • Kakiat/West New Hempstead Reformed Church Baptisms and Marriages, from 1774
  • New Hempstead Presbyterian Church (locally known as the English Church) Membership Records,, from 1754

Long Island Genealogy website

A few records on this site are also available at other places, and the site has many useful resources that are not church records. Early church records that may not be found elsewhere include:

See also





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Lowry-3068 Tanya Lowry
Poughkeepsie from 1716 looks like duplicate links were posted?
posted by Tanya Lowry
Smith-62120 Ellen Smith
No... One FamilySearch link is Baptisms and the other is Marriages.

I think there are some Poughkeepsie records on pay sites that also need to be listed.

posted by Ellen Smith
Weinheimer-29 Mark Weinheimer
Missing marriages, 1789-1816, here: https://johnblythedobson.org/genealogy/documents/Marriages%20of%20the%20Dutch%20Reformed%20Church%20of%20Shawangunk.pdf .
posted by Mark Weinheimer
Smith-62120 Ellen Smith
This is great material. Please create a Shawangunk section under New York, and add these items there.
posted by Ellen Smith
Weinheimer-29 Mark Weinheimer
Marriages records, Reformed Dutch Church of Shawangunk, Ulster County, N.Y., 1751-1784, 1802, 1813-1920 Item 2 Another filming, 1940.

Record of baptisms, old Shawangunk Dutch Church, at Shawangunk, Ulster Co., N.Y., 1750-1866 Item 1 Another filming, 1940 Family Search Film # 008200917, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSLL-BLNM?i=2 ,

posted by Mark Weinheimer
Fanning-475 Z Fanning
Thanks to Ellen Smith (+ all) for a wonderful resource here. Much appreciated.
posted by Z Fanning
Smith-62120 Ellen Smith
Carrie Quackenbush started it, and all of us can help maintain it. (New online sources do appear periodically. :-) )
posted by Ellen Smith
Smith-32867 Jillaine Smith
Very nice collection here, Carrie; thank you!
posted by Jillaine Smith
Beckwith-337 Edith (Beckwith) Smith
My Grandmother, Mary Lavern Bargy was married to Harry E. Speece 3 June 1866, Mary's mother was

Elizabeth Tin Brooks , Little Falls, N.Y. was married to Hiram Bargy, Schuyler, N.Y. 1857, maybe both marriages in Dutch Reform Church, Herkimer, N.Y. How can I find the records?

posted by Edith (Beckwith) Smith

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