Northampton County PA Archives Church Records.....Early Records: Reformed Churches of Easton, PA
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  BOOK SECOND. 
  The title-page bears the following inscription:
                  "CHURCH-BOOK
  
  "In which the affairs of the Four united Reformed Congregations shall be
  recorded, viz: Eastown, Greenwich, Dryland and Plainfield (Blaenfield). Eastown,
  August 1, 1767."
  
       On the next page we read :
       "A record in this Church-Book of transactions and occurrences that were
  especially noteworthy (richt remarquabel)"
  
       "Anno, 1768, September 7. THE COETUS was held in Eastown."
  
       [By the Coetus is meant the Synod of the Reformed Church. By this name it
  was known from 1747 to 1793, that is to say, so long as it was dependent upon
  the Church in Holland it was known as THE COETUS, but when, in 1793, the body
  separated from the Church in Holland and became independent, it was thereafter
  known as THE SYNOD.]
  
  ANNO 1787.
  
  May 30. It was resolved by the four united congregations, Eastown, Greenwich,
  Dryland and Plainfield, that the Elder of the congregation at Eastown, Mr. John
  Deichman, should be sent along with the minister as Deputy to the Coetus to be
  held at Lancaster, June 6, 1787.
                                        FREDERICUS HERMAN, Pfarrer.
  
  ANNO 1788.
  
  April 5. It was resolved by the Elders and Deacons of the four united Christian
  congregations, Eastown, Blaenfield, Truckland and Greenwich, that the Elder of
  the church in Blaenfield, Mr. Frederick Hauser, shall be sent with the minister
  as Deputy to the Coetus, which will be held April 23, in Reading.
                                           FREDERICK HERMANN, V.D.M.
  
  ANNO 1789. 
  
  June 10. The Coetus of Pennsylvania was held in Philadelphia to which, along
  with the minister, Mr. Jacob Arndt, Senior, Esquire, was sent as the Deputy of
  the four congregations.
                                     FRID. HERMAN, Prediger ibi.
  
  ANNO 1794. 
  
  It was resolved by the four united congregations, Easton, Dryland, Greenwich and
  Plainfield, that the Elder of the congregation in Easton, Mr. Michael
  Odenwaelder, should be sent along with the minister as Deputy to the Synod which
  meets on the 18th of May in Reading. 
  [Note the change of name from Coetus to Synod.]
                                         DR. C. L. BECKER, Prediger.
  
  
  Additional Comments:
  Extracted from:
  
  Some of the First Settlers of "The Forks of the Delaware" and Their Descendents
  
  Being a Translation from the German of the Record Books of the First Reformed
  Church of Easton, Pennsylvania, from 1760 to 1852
  
  Translated by the Rev. Henry Martyn Kieffer, D. D.,
  Pastor of the Church
  
  Easton, PA 
  
  1902
   
  
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