Jacob Schoonmaker glossary, [ca. 1801].

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Jacob Schoonmaker glossary, [ca. 1801].

A Dutch glossary of religious words and personal and place names drawn from scriptural, theological, and historical works. Many of the entries cite Biblical scripture, as well as other religious texts. In some cases several definitions of a word are provided; all of the entries are in Dutch.

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Schoonmaker, Jacob, 1777-1852

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Jacob Schoonmaker was born in Acquackanonck (present-day Passaic), New Jersey on May 11, 1777, son of Henricus Schoonmaker, a Dutch Reformed minister in Acquackanonck from 1774-1799 (and both Acquackanonck and Totowa from 1799-1816). He was licensed as a clergy at Paramus, New Jersey in 1801 and was ordained in New York in 1802. He served as the pastor of First Reformed Dutch Church of Newtown, Long Island (later known as Elmhurst, and now part of the Borough of Queens in the city of New York) a...