- Creator
- Evangelisch Luthersche Kerk (Netherlands)
- Call number
- MssCol 955
- Physical description
- .75 linear feet (2 boxes)
- Language
- Photostats and transcripts are chiefly in Dutch, with approximately 60 pages in German and a few items in English and Latin
- Preferred Citation
- Records relating to the Lutheran Church in Colonial New York, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Manuscripts and Archives Division
- Access to materials
- Request an in-person research appointment.
Negative photostats and typed transcripts of records from the Amsterdam Lutheran Church archives relating to Lutheranism in New Netherlands. The records consist of minutes of the Consistory at Amsterdam, correspondence between the Consistory and Lutherans in New York, and petitions of Lutheran leaders to the Consistory and to the directors of the Dutch West India Company. Accompanying the transcripts is a typescript, "The Lutheran Church in New York, 1649-1772: Records in the Lutheran Church Archives at Amsterdam, Holland." The typescript is an English translation of the records by Arnold J.H. van Laer, with an introduction by Harry J. Kreider, Chairman of the Committee on Documentary History of the United Lutheran Synod of New York.
Administrative information
Custodial history
By arrangement with the Committee on Documentary History of the United Lutheran Synod of New York, the records were selected by the archivist of the Amsterdam Lutheran Church, Simon Hart, who arranged for the photostats to be made and prepared the Dutch transcripts, and sent them to the United States between 1937 and 1940. These materials were later presented to The New York Public Library by the United Lutheran Synod of New York.
Source of acquisition
Volume on arrival unknown: Deposit, United Lutheran Synod of New York, 1944Key terms
Names
- Evangelisch Luthersche Kerk (Netherlands)
- Kreider, Harry J. (Harry Julius), 1896-
- Van Laer, Arnold J. F. (Arnold Johan Ferdinand), 1869-1955 (Translator)
Subjects
- Dutch Americans -- New York (State)
- Dutch Americans -- New York (State) -- New York
- Lutheran Church -- New York (State)
- Lutheran Church -- New York (State) -- New York
Places
Using the collection
Location
Manuscripts and Archives DivisionStephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Brooke Russell Astor Reading Room, Third Floor, Room 328
Access to materials
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Typescript published as Kreider, Harry J., ed. "The Lutheran Church in New York, 1649-1772: Records of the Lutheran Church Archives at Amsterdam, Holland." Bulletin of The New York Public Library. 48: 31-60, 409-418, 471-484, 761-776, 907-929; 49: 3-29, 559-586, 649-670, 813-851; 50: 409-427, 830-837
Location of originals
Lutheran Church Archives, Amsterdam, Netherlands