In the third book of the church memorandum are also registered the names from year to year of the election of elders and deacons to be accepted and confirmed thereto, the year and date, with the addition of the resigning elders and deacons after they will have served two years.

The fourth book contains the names of the baptized children, together with the names of their respective parents, also the names of the witnesses, and in what year and month, <fcc.

The fifth book contains the names of those who in the s\^\n of God and his communion; after three previous solemn proclamations, have let themselves been confirmed in the lawful matrimonial state, and in what year and month. / ■

The sixth book in which is notified the receipt and the expenditure of the deacons, according to the list thereof, &c., in order to see the settlement of accounts.

The seventh book in which is noted the expenditure and receipt of the chest of the poor, with additipn to whom and wherefore.

The eighth and last hook being the conclusion of all the previous books.

In the first booh occiu's the following entry.

340 HISTORY OF THE

"Finding out from the meniovandum of Mr. Abraham de Riviere that the well-learned, godly Do niniis Guilliaume BarthoiF has accepted according to request of the first inhabitants and respective congregation of Philipsburgh, in the year of onr Lord, 1697, to come to preach here three or four times God's holy \vord, and to teach and to serve the holy sacraments, which through God's particular grace he has continued to do laudably up to this present date, the 2d November, 1715, and have given the said minister, according to our bounden duty, his contentment and satisfaction ; as also to Theunis van Houtten who has fetched said minister from Hackinsack, &c., for which we are particularly and gratefully obliged, to show for the usual beneficence of the High, Hon. and very prudent my lady Mrs.