Table of Contents - VU-DARE Home

Appendix 7 displays a chart of the Dutch Reformed congregations in and their
ministers in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, which enables us to see
the transition of the American Dutch Reformed Churches toward the Union.
Much of this information is based on Russell Gasero’s 2001 Historical Directory
of the Reformed Church in America, 1628-2000. The vacancies among Dutch
Reformed churches in 1760, the year of Westerlo’s arrival in Albany, and in 1790,
the year of his death, allow us to verify Westerlo’s statement in his Memoirs about
the accomplishments of the Union compared to those of the Classis of Amsterdam
before 1772. An overview of the churches first organized between 1760 and 1800
helps us understand Westerlo’s relative success in assisting congregations in
establishing themselves.
Appendix 8 is a partial family tree of the Livingstons, an influential family in the
Hudson Valley, from Albany to New York City, in the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries. It contains many of the names of powerful families of the time.
Eilardus Westerlo and his descendants are also on branches of the tree, which help
clarify the family relations mentioned in the dissertation.
Appendix 9 represents an overview of the many texts from Scripture mentioned in
Westerlo’s Memoirs, sermons, and correspondence. The texts that Westerlo
referred to, including the date, location, and/or situation in which the Bible verse
was quoted, are intended as a tool for further study.
Appendix 10 contains the integral text of the sermon that Westerlo delivered on
June 27, 1782 to an audience that included General George Washington
(transcribed, annotated, and published for the first time). It is the basis of many
statements in Chapter 8, showing a possible influence of this sermon on a famous
document, known as George Washington’s Circular Letter of June 1783.
The documents in these ten appendices took considerable perseverance to locate
and decipher. Their contents reveal many heretofore-unknown details of religious
life in eighteenth-century America. Now that they are available in an easily
accessible format, these documents will allow other scholars to elucidate this
period in Dutch-American history even more.
4