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I need not detain you long with the characteristics and customs of the people. Individuals, doubtless, differed greatly from each other. I suppose some were indolent, thriftless, dishonest, intemperate. But generally they were industrious, thrifty, honest, with a genuine Dutch hospitality. Neighbors always expected and arranged to lend a helping hand to one another, whenever necessity might arise.
The settlers brought with them the schoolhouse and the church, and maintained their religious customs and observances. With a sparse and scattered population, one church and one clergyman had to suffice for a large extent of country. The first church edifice on the Plains was built in 1771. The first child baptized in the church on its present site was Lena, daughter of my great-grand father, Anthony. She married Cornelius T. Doremus, and was the mother of Thomas C. Doremus, Esq., who, a few years since, died in the city of New York, lamented in death as he had been respected and honored in life as a merchant, philanthropist and Christian.
In the early times the ordinary farm-wagon was swept and cleansed on Saturday afternoon, and on Sunday morning was filled with chairs on which the members of the family sat as they rode to church.
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