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HISTORY OF CONGREGATIONALISM

HISTORY.

CHAPTER I.

NEW YORK: PURITANS AND INDEPENDENTS AMONG THE EARLIEST SETTLERS OF MANHATTAN ISLAND AND OF WESTCHESTER AND DUTCHESS COUNTIES-CONGREGATIONALISM IN WESTERN NEW YORK AND THE GENESEE COUNTRY

MISSIONARY

LABORS, 1784-1793-ORGANIZATION OF CHURCHES, 1790

1816-"PLAN OF UNION" IN OPERATION-ENCROACHMENTS OF PRESBYTERIANISM-A NEW ERA IN NEW YORK CONGREGATIONALISM, 1833.

MANHATTAN ISLAND, now covered by the great city of New York, and Castle Island, in the Hudson river, near Albany, were occupied by the Dutch West India Company, many years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth. Yet these two settlements were little else than mere trading stations until about the year 1623, when families began to move in, and give them the appearance of permanent colonies.

The policy of the Dutch Company was to make New Amsterdam rival Old Amsterdam in trade, in population, and in general attractiveness to all people, kindreds, tongues, and creeds; believing that "population was the bulwark of every State.”

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