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NOTES--Literary 

UNDATED  

Charles 



596 

"Church" Article:  prose. A.MS.  (4p.  7 1/2, 16, 21 1/2 and 21 1/2 
x 11 3/4 cms.) 

Written in ink on four sheets of varying lengths, cut from forms
from the Collector's Office, City, Hall, City of Williamsburgh,
N. Y., for taxes, 185  ;  33, 67, 104,  72 words: 

"Church" Article.
The Dutch Reformed Church was ecclestically dependent upon
the Presbytery of Amsterdam, Holland, and kept up [its] connection
with its home superiors there, down to the time of the American
Revolution.     / 
"Churches) 
As early as [In 1690] 1695, Independent Churches were common on Long 
Island, acknowledging no Presbytery or Episcopate, but voluntarily
coming together, and supporting what minister suited them.-- 
[But] [t]The Dutch Reformed and the English Episcopal were the main 
sects--but [in] New York island there were churches of French Protestants, 
and many other orders, including a Jews' Synagogue.-- 
Every faith indeed was represented here.  / 
[over]

597 

"Religion"

There was all the feeling of toleration.

When Cornbury, a zealous Episcopal, caused two Presbyterian
colporteurs to be brought to trial  (1707)  for prosecuting their
missionary labors without license, the people were indignant, and
the jury soon acquited them.  For a time in some of the English colon there was quite a persecution
of the Quakers but it never practically amounted to any thing in Brooklyn,
or on Manhattan Island.-- The soil and air of These places, at least, remain,
from the beginning [first] without any [of the] stain of the blood or [the] echos
of the strikes [or stripes?] of a single religious punishment[s].  / 

For a long while after the Reformation the Catholic [Powers] Princes of Europe
and under them [many] numbers of devoted enthusiasts, [cheris] strove by fair and foul
means to extirpate the heresy, and bring back power to the Pope
and the old faith.--The [ensan] sanguinary wars and massacres,--the 
furious feelings and [an] mental contests, --of these attempts, --
were always refelcted in [the Colonies especially] in New England
and New York.--

"Church" Article. 
The Dutch Reformed Church
was ecclesiastically dependent
upon the Presbytery of
Amsterdam, Holland, and
kept up [its] connection
with its home superiors
there, down to the time of 
the American Revolution 



"Churches) 
As early as [In 1690] 1695, Independent
churches were common on
Long Island, acknowledging
no Presbytery or Episcopate,
but voluntarily coming together
and supporting what [?minister] 
suited them.--  [But] 
The Dutch Reformed and 
the English Episcopal
were the main sects -- 
but on [on] New York island
there were churches of
French Protestants, and many 
other orders, including a
Jews' Synagogue.--  Every
faith indeed was represented here. 



"Religion" 
There was all the feeling of toleration.
When Cornbury a zealous
Episcopal, caused two
Presbyterian colporteurs
to be brought to trial
(1707) for prosecuting their
missionary labors without
license, the people
were indignant and
the jury soon acquited them.
For a time in some of the English colon there 
was quite a persecution
of the Quakers  but
it never practically amounted to
any thing in Brooklyn
or on Manhattan
Island. ---  The soil and air of These places,
at least, remain
from the beginning without 
any [of the] stain of the
blood or the echos of strikes 
of a single religious punishment. 



For a long while
after the Reformation
the Catholic Princes of Europe [Powers] 
and under their [many] 
devoted enthusiasts,  [Aeris?] 
strove by' fair and
foul means to
extirpate the heresy 
and bring back power
to the Pope and the
old faith.--- The [evsan]
sanguinary wars and massacres,
-- the furious feelings and
[an] mental contests -- of
these attempts -- were
always reflected in [the] 
[colonies especially] in
New England and New York.-- 



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