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"Church" Article.
The Dutch Reformed Church
was ecclesiasticaly dependent
upon the Presbytery of
Amsterdam, Holland, and
kept up its connection
with its home superiors
there, down to the time of
the American Revolution
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"Churches)
In 1690 As early as 1695, Independent
churches were common on
Long Island, acknowledging
no Presbytery or Episcopate,
but voluntaryily coming together,
and supporting what minister
suited them.— But
tThe Dutch Reformed and
the English Episcopal
were the main sects—
but in on New York island
there were churches of
French Protestants, and many
other orders, including a
Jews' Synagogue.— Every
faith indeed was represented here.
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There was all the feeling of toleration.
When Cornbury, a zealous
Episcopal, caused two
Presbyterian colporteurs
to be brought to trial
(1707) for prosecuting their
missionary labors without
license, the people
were indignant, and
the jury ^soon acquitted them.
For a time ^in some of the English colon there
was quite a persecution
of the Quakers, but
it never ^practically amounted to
any thing in Brooklyn,
or on Manhattan
Island.— The soil and air of These places,
at least, remain,
from the first beginning, without
any of the stain of the
blood or the echos of ^the strikes,
of ^a single religious punishments.—
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For a long while
after the Reformation
the Catholic Powers Princes of Europe,
and under them many numbers of
^devoted enthusiasts, cheris
strove by fair and
foul means to
extirpate the heresy,
and bring back power
to the Pope and the
old faith.— The ensan
sanguinary wars ^and massacres,
—the furious feelings and
an mental contests,—of
these attempts,—were
always reflected in the
Colonies especially in
New England and New York.—
