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his house at Flatbush, the Rev. Mr. Vincentius Antonides, in the 74th year of his age. He was a gentleman of extensive learning; of an easy, condescending behavior and conversation, and of a regular, exemplary piety, endeavoring to practise, himself, what he preached to others; was kind, benevolent, and charitable to all, according to his abilities; meek, humble, patriotic, and resigned under all afflictions, losses, calamities, and misfortunes which befell him in his own person and family, which were not a few; and after a lingering disease, full of hopes of a blessed immortality, departed this life, to the great and irreparable loss of his relations and friends, and to the great grief of his congregation and friends.” He was succeeded by the Rev. Ulpianus van Sinderen,1, a native of. Holland, in the year 1746. He began to preach at Flatbush, April 19, 1747. In October of the following year he married (his first

wife) Cornelia Schenck, who was subsequently killed by being thrown out of a wagon.

Upon the deposition from the ministerial office of the Rev. Mr. Arondeus, his place was filled by the Rev. Antonius Curtenius,2 from Hackensack, N. J., where he had preached since 1730, and was installed as Van Sinderin's colleague, May 2, 1755. He died in October, 1756, at the age of fifty-eight years. In a newspaper of the day we find the following notice of this gentleman: “On Tuesday, the 19th ultimo, the Reverend Mr. AmmoNy Curtenius doparted this transitory life, at Flat-Bush, Long Island, in the 59th Year of his Age, after an Illness of about four Weeks, being Pastor of the five Dutch Reformed Churches in Kings County, on Long Island. He was a Gentleman regularly educated, and remarkable for his indefatigable Diligence in the Ministration of his Function. His Actions in all the Affairs of Life have ever been accompanied with the strictest Rules of Justice; so that none could with more

1 His great-grandson, Adriaen Van Sinderen, a prominent and highly respected citizen of Brooklyn, was the founder and first president of the Long Island Bible Society.

2 So named from Curten, a town of Holland.