Three Rivers
Hudson~Mohawk~Schoharie
History From America's Most Famous Valleys

History of The OLD FORT HERKIMER CHURCH
German Flatts Reformed Church, 1723
By W. N. P. Dailey, D. D.
Published by the
St. Johnsville Enterprise and News
Lou D. MacWethy, editor
St. Johnsville, NY (Price 35 cents)

Thanks to Betty Hoagey for sending this for the web site!

Organized in 1723. Land given 1730 and 1773. Present edifice begun about 1730. A story of the Palatine people and their early struggles. Many names of first settlers. By Rev. W. N. P. Dailey, DD. Author of History of the Montgomery Classis, R.C.A.

Patentees on North Side

The patentees on the north side of the river (Herkimer) were Mrs. Eva Staring (wife of John Adam), who secured a 100 acres of woodland at Astenrogen, then following west were John Jost Temouth, Mary Beerman, Augustines Hess, Johannes, Poenradt, Gertruy Poenradt (wife of Johannes), Henry Heger, Elisabeth Hellmer (wife of Lendert Hellmer), Hendrick Spoon, Jr., Johan Adam Staring, Lodwick Pares, Johannis Beerman, Philip Helmer, Frederick Pell, Anna Mary Pell, Mary Catherine Koens (widow), Mmelgert Ffols, Johan Veldelant, Adam Michael Smith, Johan Jurgh Kast, Jr., John Adam Helmer, Nicholas Ffeller, Jacob Wever, Johan Jurgh Smith, Johan Jost Petre, Hendrick Mayer, Thos. Shoemaker, Anna Catherena Lant (widow), Johan Adam Bowman, Godfree Reele, Nicholas Wever, Tedrigh Temouth, Jurgh Dacksteder, Lodwick Rickert, Johannes Pellinger, Lendert Helmer, Johan Jurgh Kast, Peter Pellinger, Frederick Staring, Gertruyt Petrie (wife of Johan Jost Petrie--"lying in ye middle of ye Great fflatts, is Called y Stone Ridge"), Johannes Velden Staring, Elisabeth Edigh, Margaret Pellenger (wife of Peter Pellenger), Catharine Rickert, Anna Veldelant, and Frederick Helmer. Even before the survey was made it was decided by the Council that each of these persons was to have a hundred acres of land, and the tract extended from Astenrogen on the east twenty-four English miles west, on both sides of the river. These forty-six persons, with their families formed the nucleus of the Herkimer Church, as the forty-six others who obtained lots on the south side made up the congregation of the Fort Herkimer church. At least three acres of the fifty low lands was to be cultivated in three years and the hundred acres was subject to an annual quit rent of two shillings and six pence. Provision was also made for roads.