"Appletons' cyclopaedia of American biography, Vol. II, New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1887"
"Demarest, John, clergyman, b. in New Bridge, N.J., in 1763; d. in 1837. When a boy, he was taken prisoner by a drunken Hessian trooper, whom he pushed off his horse while fording a stream, and thus escaped. He studied under Dr. Solomon Froeligh, and was licensed as a minister in the Reformed Dutch church in 1789. He owned the farm at Tappan where Maj. John Andre was buried. In August, 1821, the British government, at the request of Andre's sisters, sent a man-of-war to transfer the remains to England. The Duke of York, uncle of Queen Victoria, was on board, and was entertained by Mr. Demarest, who afterward received from the duke a gold-lined snuff-box, made from the cedar-tree whose roots had been found entwined, about the skeleton. Andre's sisters sent him a silver communion service, designed for the use of a Roman Catholic priest, under a mistaken idea that such was his character. Mr. Demarest returned the service, with explanations, and it was replace by a large silver cup, appropriately inscribed. Mr. Demarest seceded from the Reformed church, with Dr. Solomon Froeligh, in 1822, and was suspended in 1824. -- His grandson, James, b. in Williamsburg, L.I., 28 June, 1832...."
Rev. Johannes (or John) was the "preacher for Niskayuna Reformed and Boght from 1790 to 1800 and for the Boght alone until 1803. Then he went to the churches of Minisink and Mahackermack in New Jersey" (this and the birth date from "A Serving People: A History of the Niskayuna Reformed Church" by Elizabeth D. Shaver, Church Historian
"Demarest, John, clergyman, b. in New Bridge, N.J., in 1763; d. in 1837. When a boy, he was taken prisoner by a drunken Hessian trooper, whom he pushed off his horse while fording a stream, and thus escaped. He studied under Dr. Solomon Froeligh, and was licensed as a minister in the Reformed Dutch church in 1789. He owned the farm at Tappan where Maj. John Andre was buried. In August, 1821, the British government, at the request of Andre's sisters, sent a man-of-war to transfer the remains to England. The Duke of York, uncle of Queen Victoria, was on board, and was entertained by Mr. Demarest, who afterward received from the duke a gold-lined snuff-box, made from the cedar-tree whose roots had been found entwined, about the skeleton. Andre's sisters sent him a silver communion service, designed for the use of a Roman Catholic priest, under a mistaken idea that such was his character. Mr. Demarest returned the service, with explanations, and it was replace by a large silver cup, appropriately inscribed. Mr. Demarest seceded from the Reformed church, with Dr. Solomon Froeligh, in 1822, and was suspended in 1824. -- His grandson, James, b. in Williamsburg, L.I., 28 June, 1832...."
Rev. Johannes (or John) was the "preacher for Niskayuna Reformed and Boght from 1790 to 1800 and for the Boght alone until 1803. Then he went to the churches of Minisink and Mahackermack in New Jersey" (this and the birth date from "A Serving People: A History of the Niskayuna Reformed Church" by Elizabeth D. Shaver, Church Historian
"Appletons' cyclopaedia of American biography, Vol. II, New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1887"
"Demarest, John, clergyman, b. in New Bridge, N.J., in 1763; d. in 1837. When a boy, he was taken prisoner by a drunken Hessian trooper, whom he pushed off his horse while fording a stream, and thus escaped. He studied under Dr. Solomon Froeligh, and was licensed as a minister in the Reformed Dutch church in 1789. He owned the farm at Tappan where Maj. John Andre was buried. In August, 1821, the British government, at the request of Andre's sisters, sent a man-of-war to transfer the remains to England. The Duke of York, uncle of Queen Victoria, was on board, and was entertained by Mr. Demarest, who afterward received from the duke a gold-lined snuff-box, made from the cedar-tree whose roots had been found entwined, about the skeleton. Andre's sisters sent him a silver communion service, designed for the use of a Roman Catholic priest, under a mistaken idea that such was his character. Mr. Demarest returned the service, with explanations, and it was replace by a large silver cup, appropriately inscribed. Mr. Demarest seceded from the Reformed church, with Dr. Solomon Froeligh, in 1822, and was suspended in 1824. -- His grandson, James, b. in Williamsburg, L.I., 28 June, 1832...."
Rev. Johannes (or John) was the "preacher for Niskayuna Reformed and Boght from 1790 to 1800 and for the Boght alone until 1803. Then he went to the churches of Minisink and Mahackermack in New Jersey" (this and the birth date from "A Serving People: A History of the Niskayuna Reformed Church" by Elizabeth D. Shaver, Church Historian
"Demarest, John, clergyman, b. in New Bridge, N.J., in 1763; d. in 1837. When a boy, he was taken prisoner by a drunken Hessian trooper, whom he pushed off his horse while fording a stream, and thus escaped. He studied under Dr. Solomon Froeligh, and was licensed as a minister in the Reformed Dutch church in 1789. He owned the farm at Tappan where Maj. John Andre was buried. In August, 1821, the British government, at the request of Andre's sisters, sent a man-of-war to transfer the remains to England. The Duke of York, uncle of Queen Victoria, was on board, and was entertained by Mr. Demarest, who afterward received from the duke a gold-lined snuff-box, made from the cedar-tree whose roots had been found entwined, about the skeleton. Andre's sisters sent him a silver communion service, designed for the use of a Roman Catholic priest, under a mistaken idea that such was his character. Mr. Demarest returned the service, with explanations, and it was replace by a large silver cup, appropriately inscribed. Mr. Demarest seceded from the Reformed church, with Dr. Solomon Froeligh, in 1822, and was suspended in 1824. -- His grandson, James, b. in Williamsburg, L.I., 28 June, 1832...."
Rev. Johannes (or John) was the "preacher for Niskayuna Reformed and Boght from 1790 to 1800 and for the Boght alone until 1803. Then he went to the churches of Minisink and Mahackermack in New Jersey" (this and the birth date from "A Serving People: A History of the Niskayuna Reformed Church" by Elizabeth D. Shaver, Church Historian
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