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Individual:
contact Dorothy Stratford % of the Somerset County Historical Society for information on the parsonage and related issues. Dorothy is very well versed in the history of this Church and the county in general. You can send, via Postal Mail ONLY
% The Van Veghten House, 9 Van Veghten Drive. Somerville, NJ 08807-3259
HARLINGEN DRC: GMNJ: Vol 15, pg 1: "The Harlingen Reformed Dutch Church
(first known as merely as de kerk up de Milston, then from about the middle of
the century it was called "The Church of Sourland" until in 1801 when its
present name was adopted, It was originally organized May 18, 1727 under the
direction of Rev. Henricus Coens of Aquackanock and a small wooden building was
erected by the congregation at present day Bell Mead, where the old cemetery
established there is still in use." ( Today called Belle Meade Cem.) During the
Coetus-Conferentie controversy, a rift developed in the Harlingen
Congregation and one group withdrew and erected its own building (1750-1752) on the
site of the present church (See GMNJ Vol. 17, pg. 1- for the subscription list
and pew holders). Upon the eventual reunion of the two parties, the old
church was abandoned and in due time demolished. All of these locations are
situated close by one another in Montgomery Township. If you drove down from
Somerville on Rt. 206 (I think the road is) right before you got to Harlingen,
there is a curve in the road and the cemetery is on the right. Most of the Dutch
families you are interested in, those who moved on over to Conewago were for
the most part buried in farm cemeteries on their land, however, for instance
in the case of the Dorlands, later members of the family moved the body of
Gerret Dorland from the farm and reburied him in Belle Mead in the latter part
of the 1800's. These burials have been published either in the Quarterlies
or the GMNJ. (By the way don't confuse kerk or de Milston, with the Millstone
Reformed Church, they are entirely two separate churches).
FIRST REFORMED CHURCH RARITAN, (Somerville) baptisms are published in the
Somerset County Historical Quarterlies, beginning with Vol III, Vol IV, Vol 5.
and are mostly people who lived in the Somerville, Bound Brook area.
SIX MILE RUN Church Baptisms appear in SCHQ. Vol V, pg 123, and is located
in Franklin Township, organized in 1710 by Paulus Van Vleq. who was al
organizing over in Bensalem Bucks Co., and other areas of Montgomery Co., PA. He
was essentially a missionary Pastor. Some of the families who were members of
the Sourlandt Church (Harlingen) briefly broke away and were attending this
church and baptizing for a brief time about 1750, during the
Coetus-Conferentie Controversy was going on, but later returned back to Sourlandt DRC, which
was in Montgomery Township.
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