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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Democracy in New Netherland. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Greene , Zechariah 1760 -1858 (search)
Greene, Zechariah 1760-1858
Chaplain; born in Stafford, Conn., Jan. 11, 1760; was a soldier in the army of the Revolution; became a minister of the Gospel and a settled pastor on Long Island, and was a chaplain in the army in the War of 1812-15.
He died in Hempstead, L. I., June 20, 1858.
Hicks, Elias 1748-
Friends preacher; born in Hempstead, N. Y., March 19, 1748; was a very able preacher among Friends, or Quakers, and was a formally recognized minister at the age of twenty-seven.
After preaching many years, he embraced Unitarian views, and boldly promulgated them.
This produced a schism in the society, and a separation, the new lights receiving the name of Hicksites, and the old church of Orthodox.
They have never fused.
He preached with eloquence and vigor until a short time before his death, in Jericho, N. Y., Feb. 27, 1830.
See friends, Society of.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Onderdonk , Henry 1804 -1886 (search)
Onderdonk, Henry 1804-1886
Author; born in North Hempstead, N. Y., June 11, 1804; graduated at Columbia in 1827.
Among his publications are Revolutionary histories of Queens; New York; Suffolk; And Kings counties; Long Island and New York in the Olden times; The annals of Hempstead, N. Y., etc. He died in Jamaica, N. Y., June 22, 1886.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Presbyterian Church in the United States of America , (search)
Presbyterian Church in the United States of America,
The name of the Presbyterian Church operating in the Northern section of the United States.
The first church was established by John Young, a Puritan minister, on Long Island in 1640; another was organized in Hempstead in 1642, and in the following year services were held in New York.
From these beginnings the growth was slow until after the Revolutionary period, when it became more rapid.
The Presbyterians are Calvinistic in doctrine and in policy; have four supervising boards, viz., the session, consisting of a bench of elders elected in each individual church; the presbytery, composed of all the ministers in a limited section; the synod, made up of delegates, ministerial and lay, from the presbyteries over which it has jurisdiction; and the general assembly, constituted of members elected by the presbyteries.
This last body is the supreme judicial and legislative court of the Church.
In 1741 a division occurred owing t
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Spooner , Alden Jeremiah 1810 -1881 (search)
Spooner, Alden Jeremiah 1810-1881
Historian; born in Sag Harbor, N. Y., Feb. 2, 1810; was admitted to the bar and practised law in Brooklyn.
In 1863 he founded the Long Island Historical Society.
He edited with notes and memoirs Gabriel Furman's Notes, Geographical and Historical, relating to the town of Brooklyn; and Silas Wood's sketch of the first settlement of the several towns on long Island.
He died in Hempstead, L. I., Aug. 2, 1881.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Underhill , John 1630 -1672 (search)