Reformed (Dutch) Church of Walpack: Historical Discourse Preached at the Dedication of the Reformed Church, at Bushkill, Penn,, January 13th, 1874 (Cl

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Excerpt from Reformed (Dutch) Church of Walpack: Historical Discourse Preached at the Dedication of the Reformed Church, at Bushkill, Penn, , January 13th, 1874 The first settlers of the Neversink and Delaware valleys were Huguenots and Hollanders, who came from Kingston and Esopus, in Ulster County, N. Y. Their first place of settle ment was at Pcenpack, along the Neversink north of Hugue not, and about six or seven miles from Port Jervis. From this they passed down the Delaware, and subsequently some of them or of their descendants crossed over the Mountain to the Clove, near Deckertown. Deeply imbued with the principles and Spirit of Protestantism - for which some of them had beencompelled to ¿ee from their native land, - they brought. With them their religious privileges, and made early efforts to es tablish churches and schools. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.