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Welcome to
HERKIMER COUNTY, NEW YORK
History & Genealogy


 

 

HISTORY
of the
OLD FORT HERKIMER CHURCH
GERMAN FLATTS REFORMED CHURCH
1723
By W. N. P. Dailey, D. D.
Published by the
St. Johnsville Enterprise and News
Lou D. MacWethy, Editor
St. Johnsville, N. N.
31 pgs.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

   
   - Names of First Settlers in Herkimer County 1
   - A Story Not Often Told 2
   - Early Church Papers 2
   - First Settlers Were Palatines 2
   - Patentees on North Side 3
   - Patentees on South Side 3
   - The Staley Patent 3
   - Remsen Deed 4
   - Official Title of the Church 4
   - Church and Fort During War (1754-60) 5
   - Historic Events at Fort Herkimer 5
   - Oldest Record 5
   - Description of Church Land 6
   - Quaint Wording of 1773 Conveyance 6
   - Fort Herkimer Church Edifice 7
   - Petition to "Complete" Church 8
   - Oldest Religious Edifice in Valley 9
   - The Herkimers of Fort Herkimer 9
   - General Nicholas Herkimer 10
   - Death of General Herkimer 10
   - The Palatines at Fort Herkimer 11
   - Massacre of 1757 11
   - Early Bookkeeping 12
   - Records of 1813 13
   - Radical Changes in 1812 13
   - Picture of The Old Pulpit - fort Herkimer Church 15
   - Names of Families on the South Side 16
   - Spinner Volumes of Vital Records 17
   - Why Baptisms Were Not Recorded 17
   - For Herkimer Glebe Rents 17
   - The Fort Herkimer Reformed Church Ministry 18
   - Rev. Rosencrantz Married Sister of General Herkimer 19
   - Closing Years of the Rosencrantz Pastorate 20
   - Religious Worship in the Wilderness 21
   - Ministerial Duties Cover Wide Field 22
   - Domine Spinner's Family Record 23
   - Successive Pastors 24
   - Fort Herkimer Notes 25
   - Bibliography Mohawk Valley Maps 30
   - Upper Mohawk Valley Publications 31
   - Herkimer and Herkimer County 31
   - Mohawk Valley Guide
   - Chief Points of Interest on the Old Mohawk Turnpike (Route 5) the Water Level Route.
32
   - Other Publications
   - Old Palatine Church
   - St. John's Reformed Church
   - Roster of Col. Jacob Klock's Regiment
   - Montgomery County Classis
   - Tercentenary Gleanings
   - Ancient Indian Deed of Gift
   - First Settlers and Their Descendants
 

 

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