186 HISTORY OF BROOKLYN.

Propriety claim the Title of a Preacher and a sincere Christian, which not only his Morals manifested, but his Glorious Resolutions to launch into endless Eternity, saying with St. Paul, O Death! where is thy Sting? O Grave ! where is thy Victory? His Remains were decently interred on Thursday following, in the Church of the above-named place. His Death is universally lamented by his Relations, and all those that knew him, particularly his Congregation, who are highly sensible of the Loss of so inestimable a Shepard, whose every Action displayed the Christian.”1

His place was supplied by the Rev. Johannes Casparus Rubel, a native of Hesse Cassel, in Germany, who had been settled at Red Hook, Dutchess County, from 1755 to August, 1757, when he was called to be colleague pastor with Domine Van Sinderen, over the churches of Kings County. He was educated in Germany, and came to this country (1751), with others of the German Reformed Church, under the auspices of the Classis of Amsterdam, from which body he received an annual salary of £15, while settled over the German Church at Philadelphia. Even then he was so insubordinate to his superiors, that the German Coetus styled him “the rebellious Rubel,” and voted, April 9, 1755, that he ought to withdraw from his charge. He, at first, desired to avail himself of the six months' notice; but finally gave his farewell discourse, April, 1755, left Pennsylvania, and settled at Rhinebeck. He was naturalized on the 23d of December, 1765 ; and in June, 1769, styled himself “Ecclesiastes in Kings County and in the Manor of Cortland;” and in August, 1770, “Minister of Clarkstown”—probably on the strength of his having occasionally filled a pulpit there.

Both of these gentlemen continued in the work of the ministry until after the close of the Revolutionary war. In politics they differed extremely, Mr. Van Sinderen being a firm Whig, while Mr. Rubel was as decided a loyalist.2 In Colonel Graydon's Memoirs we find the following brief but spirited picture of the two pastors:

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1 His funeral eulogy was printed, in Dutch, at New York, by H. Goelet; price, three coppers.

2 On a fast-day appointed by the Provincial Congress, it is said that he took occasion to Preach, at Flatbush, from the text, “Honor the king;” and, among other things, remarked that “people could do as well without a head as without a king.” (Strong’s