The Minisink Subscribers to the 1810 "Fifty-Three Sermons on the Heidelbergh Catechism"

The New York Public Library's rare copy of the 1810 English language translation of the Dutch edition of Fifty Three Sermons on the Heidelbergh Catechism, by the Rev. John Vanderkemp, is notable for the bound in Subscriber pages featuring a list of well-to-do patrons who underwrote the cost of publication, often in return for a discount. Typically this would be the first print run as delivered to the subscribers - subsequent runs would lack these pages further reducing the cost.  The list of subscribers, a virtual Who's Who of the Dutch Reformed Church in America in 1810, is fascinating for its helpful bracketing of community place names or congregations & heads of families in the Minisink Valley from a period when other records are scarce.  New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania tax and census records offer additional details of subscribers' residence during this time period.  

Surnames variants of the Clove, Flatbrook, Mehakkemack, Menissing, Shappanack and Walpeck families include:  Bennet, Carmer, Carpenter, Cole, Cuddebeck, Depuis, Ennes, Force, Gomar, Hoornbeek, Lambert, Little, Middagh, Neerpass, Quick, Rosencrans, Rowles, Swartwout, Titsworth, Van Aken, Van Bunschooten, Van Campen, Van Gorden, Van Neste, Van Nimwegen, Van Noy, Van Vliet, Vredenburg, Westbrook and Westfall.
















James Bennet, Mehakkemack

Wm Titsworth, Clove

Benj. Carpenter, Mehakkemack

Revd. Elias Van Bunschooten, Clove

Benj. Cuddebeck, Mehakkemack

James Van Vliet, Mehakkemack

William Cuddebeck, Mehakkemack

Joseph Van Noy, Mehakkemack

Martin Cole, Mehakkemack

Garrit Van Aken, Mehakkemack

James Carmer, Shappanack

James Van Aken, Mehakkemack

Benjamin Depuis, Menissing

Evert Van Aken, Mehakkemack

Joseph Ennes, Esq. Menissing

Joseph Van Gorden, Mehakkemack

Revd. James G. Force, Walpeck

James Van Gorden, Mehakkemack

Elias Gomar, Mehakkemack

Martin Van Gorden, Mehakkemack

Peter Gomar, Mehakkemack

Joseph Van Aken, Mehakkemack

Benj.  Hoornbeek, Mehakkemack

Daniel Vredenburg, Mehakkemack

S. Lambert,    Mehakkemack

Herman Van Nimwegen, Mehakkemack

Wm. Little,   Mehakkemack

Peter Van Neste, Esq. Flatbrook

Levi Middagh, Mehakkemack

Abm. Van Campen, Esq. Shappanack

Simon Middagh, Mehakkemack

John D. Westbrook, Menissing

David Morrow, Mehakkemack

John I Westbrook, Menissing

Jacob Quick, Mehakkemack

Severin Westbrook, Menissing

Simon Rosecrans, Shappanack

Wm Westbrook, Menissing

Wm. M. Rowles, Mehakkemack

Abm. Westfall, Menissing

Peter Swartwout, Mehakkemack

George D. Westfall, Mehakkemack


Daniel B. Westfall, Mehakkemack