The David Canfield family was found in Provo, Utah County, Utah in 1850. They enjoyed about 11 years in that beautiful area before moving to Utah's Dixie.
Thursday, April 8, 2010
David Canfield 1850
The David Canfield family was found in Provo, Utah County, Utah in 1850. They enjoyed about 11 years in that beautiful area before moving to Utah's Dixie.
Elizabeth Story Depuy Canfield 1900
After David passed away, Elizabeth continued living in her home until her final few years. She moved to Enterprise, Washington County, Utah and lived with a couple of her sons.
Ben Depuy Jr and Arena's Cemetery Record
Benjamin Depuy Jr and his wife Arriantia (Arena) Van Auken were buried in the Riverview Cemetery, near Baldwinsville, Onondaga, New York.
The green hearts are next to our family members buried in that cemetery.
Ben Depuy Jr. Alternate Birth date
In the Pension Records of the Revolutionary Soldiers, Benjamin reports that his birth date is Dec 29, 1764.
Church records in Rochester, show that Benjamin was christened 2 Nov 1758. I have tried to figure out the discrepancy on birth dates, but have not discovered any clues.
Oath of Allegience
The "Oath of Allegiance" to the King of Great Britain, signed by Benjamin De puy, Sr.Friday, March 5, 2010
David Canfield and Elizabeth Story Depew Canfield
Paternal Grandparents
by James Willard Canfield
My paternal grandfather, David Canfield, was born on May 9, 1812, in Gorham (Ontario County), New York, the son of James Canfield and Susanna Blake Canfield. Not much is known about his childhood, youth and early manhood. A brief reference indicated that he moved to Toronto, Canada, and married an Irish girl, Sally Mathison, about 1833. Two children were born in Candada, but no information is available as to what happend to this marriage and the two daughters, Jane and Susanna. [Preston Hunt later researched this line and has more information on this little family]. He joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1836. (It is possible that his conversion to the Mormon religion caused a divorce; this is mere conjecture on my part). Reliable data indicates that he came back to the United States and was baptized in 1843 by Parley P. Pratt.
He was married to my grandmother, Elizabeth Story Depew, on October 1, 1843, but records are not clear as to where they were married. She was the daughter of John Horace Depew and Lucy Lonsberre Roberts Depew, and was born on July 10, 1825, in Lysander, New York. The first of their ten children, David Jr., was born July 25, 1844, in Defiance, Ohio, and Ellen Elizabeth was born on April 1, 1846, in Chicago, Illinois, followed by Moroni on February 5, 1848.
Grandfather went to Nauvoo in 1845 and helped to finish up the Temple as far as it was completed. My grandparents did not join the first movement to Utah, but came there in 1850 and settled in Provo where my father, James Canfield, was born on October 9, 1850. The next five children were also born in Provo: Lucy Philena, January 21, 1853; Parley Pratt, July 24, 1855; Lyman, December 19, 1857; Harriet Alma, April 5, 1859 (died in infancy); and Clara, November 12, 1861. Their tenth child, Alice Lillian (Aunt Allie), was born in Pine Valley, Utah, on October 28, 1864.
At the beginning of the Civil War, Brigham Young was afraid that Utah would not be able to secure cotton, and knew that southern Utah, because of the climate and productive land, was suitable to grow cotton. This was the pirmary purpose of colonizing St. George. Men of various occupations were selected to insure a resourceful personnel, and David Canfield, who was a skilled carpenter, was called. The family moved to St. George and Grandfather helped build the Jacob Hamblin home in Santa Clara, Utah, late in 1861. He also did considerable work on the St. George Temple which was the first temple finished by the Mormons in Utah.
While I can state with some conviction that my grandparents were obedient Church members and came to southern Utah because they were so ordered by the Church authorities, they were a bit resentful that they lost their fine property acquired in Provo. Evidently Grandfather resented the continual control of local Church authorities, because he moved his family to a place called "The Foster Ranch" on the Santa Clara River, twenty-four miles north of St. George before 1864, where they raised fruit, vegetables and a few cattle. Sometime in the late sixties they moved to Hamblin, utah, their last home, and where I entered the picture and my first memories began.
Grandfather was a big man; he stood over six feet and weighed better than 200 pounds. He was quiet spoken and an agreeable, non-aggressive neighbor, From Father I later acquired the information that Grandfather had been very active in all physical activities. Father told me that at one time Grandfather walked from St. George to their dwelling on the Santa Clara Creek, a distance over twenty miles, carrying a huge brass kettle.
I remember Grandfather best as he sat in the big rocker, which he had constructed, and read the paper and smoked his corn cob pipe. Although the Mormon Church considered the use of tabacco an evil, Grandfather had acquired the habit before he joined the Church and found considerable comfort smoking his pipe. The tobacco was cut from a plug or roll of tobacco leaf, on a pine board made for that purpose. On one occasion, mary Sinfield, a neighbor my age, and I sat on the floor close to Grandfather's chair. We picked up small portions of the tobacco that occasionally fell when being cut, and ate the same. It had a sweet flavor; I presume it had been flavored. The out-come was that I became violently ill and lost my dinner, while the tough girl Mary weathered the experience without illness.
During the year of 1896, when he was in his eighty-fourth year, I remember that Grandfather Canfield was quite inactive. His physical activity consisted of chopping wood, and building fires around the outdoor kettle used for heating water for washing clothes and cooking food for the pigs. The pig pens at the back of the lot were of interest to me because of the litter of young pigs that frequently came in the springtime, and I helped when some of the pink-nose squealling midgets escaped from the pen through cracks in the logs and then had trboule finding their way back. The pigs were fed quantities of green weeks, green alfalfa, and cooked potatoes and wheat. The huge brass outdoor kettle would be filled with a mixture of small potatoes (culled out when picked in the fall and placed in a separate cellar) and wheat. The children were not opposed to dipping out a few clean potatoes and a cup of well cooked wheat and eating the same. We relished the dish when mixed with good milk and molasses; the molasses was obtained from Utah's Dixie where it was made from sugar cane.
The slaughtering of beef and pigs was supervised by Granfather Canfield. Beek was killed in the winter time when it could be frozen and hung high on the north side of the house. Pigs were raised for fresh meat and cured side bacon and hams which, when placed in large oak barrels in a strong salt solution for several weeks and then hung up to dry, would keep over the summer.
I remember once watching Grandfather as he gathered an armful of wood to carry to the back porch and I was alarmed when he stumbled over the chopping block and fell. He did not move for a moment or two and then could not get up. I ran for Grandmother; she, in turn, called for Father who came to Granfather's assistance. his last illness of four weeks was severe, but he bore this suffering patiently and went to his rest in Hamblin on May 8, 1897, leaving a record of a man who never failed to respond to the call of God's servants and who was ever true to the trust reposed in him.
In many respects, Grandmother Canfield was a stronger character than Grandfather. She was a medium sized women with a tremendous amount of mental and physical energy. She was neat and attractive, with a pleasing manner thant endeared her to all close friends and accosicates, and attracted frquent visitors. For years travelers stopped at her place for meals and lodging. The number that could be served was restricted to four or five because of lack of sleeping accomodations, but any larger groups were the exception in those days. After the railroads reached Modena, Utah, most of the freight and passenger service from St. George and vicinity came through Hamblin and Granmother sold hay and grain for the stage and freight teams. This of course provided extra pennies and she was thrifty. By saving over a period of time she accumulated enough for her to take the train to the Chicago World Fair in 1893. I cannot remember the event, but many times later I listed to her accounts of what she saw and who she met in Chicago. The bi-weekly mail occasionally brought newspapers and letters from her former home.
Grandmother was intelligent and resourceful. For years she was the post-mistress of Hamblin. Grandpa built her a carpet loom and every year or so it was put up in the north end of the long kitchen and new rugs and carpets were woven. All pieces of good cloth were saved, and sometimes colored to add to the artistic effect. Mother went there frequently to help and also fashion one to her liking.
They also made candles from tallow which were used especially in the three bedrooms. Grandfather made a cheese press which sat out by the porch, and I remember the cheese making process. Aunt Libby Canfield, Uncle Lyman's wife, fell heir to the press and made cheese and occasionally sold some of it. I learned to milk cows at five years of age, but my small hands seemed to be capable of milking only two cows each morning and evening.
After we moved from hablin I frequently would spend two or three days with Grandmother. She was quite proud of her maiden name, Depew, but I cannot recall her genealogy background. (However, I have always been of the opinion that Chauncy M. Depew, the lawyer nd famous after-dinner speaker, was a close relative). Grandmother Canfield died on June 5, 1908, in Cedar City and was buried in Hamblin.
by James Willard Canfield
My paternal grandfather, David Canfield, was born on May 9, 1812, in Gorham (Ontario County), New York, the son of James Canfield and Susanna Blake Canfield. Not much is known about his childhood, youth and early manhood. A brief reference indicated that he moved to Toronto, Canada, and married an Irish girl, Sally Mathison, about 1833. Two children were born in Candada, but no information is available as to what happend to this marriage and the two daughters, Jane and Susanna. [Preston Hunt later researched this line and has more information on this little family]. He joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1836. (It is possible that his conversion to the Mormon religion caused a divorce; this is mere conjecture on my part). Reliable data indicates that he came back to the United States and was baptized in 1843 by Parley P. Pratt.
He was married to my grandmother, Elizabeth Story Depew, on October 1, 1843, but records are not clear as to where they were married. She was the daughter of John Horace Depew and Lucy Lonsberre Roberts Depew, and was born on July 10, 1825, in Lysander, New York. The first of their ten children, David Jr., was born July 25, 1844, in Defiance, Ohio, and Ellen Elizabeth was born on April 1, 1846, in Chicago, Illinois, followed by Moroni on February 5, 1848.
Grandfather went to Nauvoo in 1845 and helped to finish up the Temple as far as it was completed. My grandparents did not join the first movement to Utah, but came there in 1850 and settled in Provo where my father, James Canfield, was born on October 9, 1850. The next five children were also born in Provo: Lucy Philena, January 21, 1853; Parley Pratt, July 24, 1855; Lyman, December 19, 1857; Harriet Alma, April 5, 1859 (died in infancy); and Clara, November 12, 1861. Their tenth child, Alice Lillian (Aunt Allie), was born in Pine Valley, Utah, on October 28, 1864.
At the beginning of the Civil War, Brigham Young was afraid that Utah would not be able to secure cotton, and knew that southern Utah, because of the climate and productive land, was suitable to grow cotton. This was the pirmary purpose of colonizing St. George. Men of various occupations were selected to insure a resourceful personnel, and David Canfield, who was a skilled carpenter, was called. The family moved to St. George and Grandfather helped build the Jacob Hamblin home in Santa Clara, Utah, late in 1861. He also did considerable work on the St. George Temple which was the first temple finished by the Mormons in Utah.
While I can state with some conviction that my grandparents were obedient Church members and came to southern Utah because they were so ordered by the Church authorities, they were a bit resentful that they lost their fine property acquired in Provo. Evidently Grandfather resented the continual control of local Church authorities, because he moved his family to a place called "The Foster Ranch" on the Santa Clara River, twenty-four miles north of St. George before 1864, where they raised fruit, vegetables and a few cattle. Sometime in the late sixties they moved to Hamblin, utah, their last home, and where I entered the picture and my first memories began.
Grandfather was a big man; he stood over six feet and weighed better than 200 pounds. He was quiet spoken and an agreeable, non-aggressive neighbor, From Father I later acquired the information that Grandfather had been very active in all physical activities. Father told me that at one time Grandfather walked from St. George to their dwelling on the Santa Clara Creek, a distance over twenty miles, carrying a huge brass kettle.
I remember Grandfather best as he sat in the big rocker, which he had constructed, and read the paper and smoked his corn cob pipe. Although the Mormon Church considered the use of tabacco an evil, Grandfather had acquired the habit before he joined the Church and found considerable comfort smoking his pipe. The tobacco was cut from a plug or roll of tobacco leaf, on a pine board made for that purpose. On one occasion, mary Sinfield, a neighbor my age, and I sat on the floor close to Grandfather's chair. We picked up small portions of the tobacco that occasionally fell when being cut, and ate the same. It had a sweet flavor; I presume it had been flavored. The out-come was that I became violently ill and lost my dinner, while the tough girl Mary weathered the experience without illness.
During the year of 1896, when he was in his eighty-fourth year, I remember that Grandfather Canfield was quite inactive. His physical activity consisted of chopping wood, and building fires around the outdoor kettle used for heating water for washing clothes and cooking food for the pigs. The pig pens at the back of the lot were of interest to me because of the litter of young pigs that frequently came in the springtime, and I helped when some of the pink-nose squealling midgets escaped from the pen through cracks in the logs and then had trboule finding their way back. The pigs were fed quantities of green weeks, green alfalfa, and cooked potatoes and wheat. The huge brass outdoor kettle would be filled with a mixture of small potatoes (culled out when picked in the fall and placed in a separate cellar) and wheat. The children were not opposed to dipping out a few clean potatoes and a cup of well cooked wheat and eating the same. We relished the dish when mixed with good milk and molasses; the molasses was obtained from Utah's Dixie where it was made from sugar cane.
The slaughtering of beef and pigs was supervised by Granfather Canfield. Beek was killed in the winter time when it could be frozen and hung high on the north side of the house. Pigs were raised for fresh meat and cured side bacon and hams which, when placed in large oak barrels in a strong salt solution for several weeks and then hung up to dry, would keep over the summer.
I remember once watching Grandfather as he gathered an armful of wood to carry to the back porch and I was alarmed when he stumbled over the chopping block and fell. He did not move for a moment or two and then could not get up. I ran for Grandmother; she, in turn, called for Father who came to Granfather's assistance. his last illness of four weeks was severe, but he bore this suffering patiently and went to his rest in Hamblin on May 8, 1897, leaving a record of a man who never failed to respond to the call of God's servants and who was ever true to the trust reposed in him.
In many respects, Grandmother Canfield was a stronger character than Grandfather. She was a medium sized women with a tremendous amount of mental and physical energy. She was neat and attractive, with a pleasing manner thant endeared her to all close friends and accosicates, and attracted frquent visitors. For years travelers stopped at her place for meals and lodging. The number that could be served was restricted to four or five because of lack of sleeping accomodations, but any larger groups were the exception in those days. After the railroads reached Modena, Utah, most of the freight and passenger service from St. George and vicinity came through Hamblin and Granmother sold hay and grain for the stage and freight teams. This of course provided extra pennies and she was thrifty. By saving over a period of time she accumulated enough for her to take the train to the Chicago World Fair in 1893. I cannot remember the event, but many times later I listed to her accounts of what she saw and who she met in Chicago. The bi-weekly mail occasionally brought newspapers and letters from her former home.
Grandmother was intelligent and resourceful. For years she was the post-mistress of Hamblin. Grandpa built her a carpet loom and every year or so it was put up in the north end of the long kitchen and new rugs and carpets were woven. All pieces of good cloth were saved, and sometimes colored to add to the artistic effect. Mother went there frequently to help and also fashion one to her liking.
They also made candles from tallow which were used especially in the three bedrooms. Grandfather made a cheese press which sat out by the porch, and I remember the cheese making process. Aunt Libby Canfield, Uncle Lyman's wife, fell heir to the press and made cheese and occasionally sold some of it. I learned to milk cows at five years of age, but my small hands seemed to be capable of milking only two cows each morning and evening.
After we moved from hablin I frequently would spend two or three days with Grandmother. She was quite proud of her maiden name, Depew, but I cannot recall her genealogy background. (However, I have always been of the opinion that Chauncy M. Depew, the lawyer nd famous after-dinner speaker, was a close relative). Grandmother Canfield died on June 5, 1908, in Cedar City and was buried in Hamblin.
Friday, February 19, 2010
Esther Elizabeth Barnum Emett Death Certificate
Esther is the wife of David Carlos Emett, son of David Canfield and Elizabeth Story Depuy, and grandson of John Depuy and Lucy Lonsberre Roberts.
Parley Pratt Canfield death record
Death certificate from the state of Utah for Parley Pratt Canfield, son of David Canfield and Elizabeth Story Depuy, and grandson of John Depuy and Lucy Lonsberre Roberts.
I was not able to find the certificate of Parley's wife Laura Marie Westover.
Lyman Canfield & Anna Elizabeth Laub
Death certificates from the state of Utah for Lyman Canfield and his wife Anna Elizabeth Laub. Lyman is the son of David Canfield and Elizabeth Story Depuy, and grandson of John Depuy and Lucy Lonsberre Roberts.
Moses Franklin Farnsworth & Clara Canfield
Death certificates from Utah for Moses Franklin Farnsworth and his wife Clara Canfield. Clara is the daughter of David Canfield and Elizabeth Story Depuy, and granddaughter of John Depuy and Lucy Lonsberre Roberts.
Benjamin Franklin Knell & Alice Lillian Canfield
Death Certificates from Utah for Alice Lillian Canfield, daughter of David Canfield and Elizabeth Story Depuy. Alice Lillian is the granddaughter of John Depuy and Lucy Lonsberre Robert.
Friday, February 5, 2010
1790 Mamakating, Ulster, NY Census
Benjamin Depuy Jr. and Arriaantia Van Auken
Series M637, Roll 6
Page 175, (#91)
Mamakating, Ulster, New York, USA
(interpretation: Moses - age 3
Elias - age 1 (must have died)
....................
Benjamin Depuy Sr. and Elizabeth Swartout
Series M637, Roll 6
Page 176, (#101)
Mamakating, Ulster, New York, USA
Series M637, Roll 6
Page 176, (#101)
Mamakating, Ulster, New York, USA
John Depuy
Born Dec 1, 1798 and christened June 15, 1799. Son of Benjamin Depuy Jr. and Arrietta (Americanized to Arena) V(an) Auken. Record from Owasco, New York.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Fort Gumaer, Fort Depuy
Photos taken by Marsha Lockerby Pilger 2009
(the following letter source: LDSFHL#0931482, 0931483 Misc file of Ulster County, NY)
... I will try to give you a discription of the old DePuy house, and the furnitions in it.
The cellar entrance you speak of was the basement, where there was a very large room and bedroom off for slaves, as well as outside slave quarters. The slaves were all freed very early but some stayed on for wages, and they are Mark Depuy to this day about the country.
In that old kitchen was an immense fireplace, with old __(crane?)__, iron forte and kettel and old tip table and side hand with pewter and old dishes. The stair rail was worn by their dear old hands and the steps were so worn it was rather difficult to come down them as they were slippery and where the old rails were high up. The stairs had a lovely turn as it landed on the first floor at the head of the hall, near an old half door with wonderful lock and hinges. This room led to the lean-to you speak of which was always called the back porch. It had a fine corner closet with old dishes where platters set and another old house, they called it. It was used for summer dinning room, never for milk (milking?) cows (?) as that was all done at the farmers house at the east of the old road, now about abandoned, since the back road was made a state road, what is now the state road, was only a road through the woods.
Entering the front door, comes on right and left, a long hall runing through the house. In the hall and old lantern with candle in it hung. A beautiful mahogony table to one side, beautiful old stairs with turn and landing.
At the left a large living room in later years the back part a bedroom, first a wooden partition. Lovely old glass bureau, rocking chair, tripod (?) table, and the dearest little wood stove, made like a house with gables on it, and shovel, thongs and poker of iron.
The parlor at the right had a handsome table, old lampe and various quaint old ornaments; beautiful mirror of gilt with a scounce; magnifcent old desk of mahogony with inland work and collums; and beautiful chair.
The little black bedroom had a four poster bed with ___ and straw and feather bed. Old fireplace with chimney cupboards filled with old glassware, dishes, pewter, and many quaint things. The fireplace had been closed with a board covered with the most wonderful old paper which I used to study when a child. There was and old stove for wood that reguladed itself by - steel cord (?) -- that closed the draft when the wood expanded with heat and opened it when it cooled and contracted. At the extreme east side of the room, or rather south east, there was a door leading to a small hall and an side entrance with transome, the half door you saw. There was a large pantry at the end of hall, and secretary in the corner. From that small hall a door led to the back bedroom which had a four poster bed, with curtains. A fine mirror, a little washstand with hold in the top for the lovely blue bowl and pitcher, the temple pattern (which I have now); a fine bureau, a fireplace, also ____ with firewood; and cupboard at side of the chimney; every closet had china in it.
The choice piece of furniture was in the back bedroom. An old ____, with tall leggs; a wonderful old cabinet with drawers beneath; a very large piece of furniture.
The second floor had a double bedroom on the north end with four poster beds at each side; a piece for each sister to keep her belongings; a ___ sewing table like an hour glass with a sewing ______; a closet filled with old dresses, jackets etc. Between the windows hung a Washington mirror; a little wash stand with a Lafayette bowl and pitcher. beautiful blue, a sceane of LaFayette landing at castle garden in 1824. I have these, also the mirror ____ and many other things.
The south end of the second story was also a bedroom with an attic return and another small room at the end of the hall filled with all the wooden things they used in making flax into linen. I have the sheets, pillowcases, out of the linen made in the place as well as garmets way back to my grt-grt-grt- grandmother with her initials and those of the grand-daughter she gave them to. Linen stockings; wollen blankets with strange yarn corners and many many other things. Even a powder box and puff.
The Markel house on the hill was a DePuy house, but much larger. This man tore down more than half of the house and sold the stone. In fact all the places about these once belonged to the DePuy estate of 640 acres. I have a _____carved by the Indians and given to my ____great grandmother by them because she had always been good to them, and the original DePuy had paid them well for their land, so they were always friendly. There had never been another owner until now and the land had never been mortgaged.
The old house was build where it was because of the excellent spring, but not a very good _____. The Ephriam DePuy place on the old stage road (at the east of the place the main road until lately) a couple of miles north, was an elegant old place. Very large stone house; two stories and half high; fine other building and a beautiful situation standing high from the road and west of the road. Fallen down now.
Arther Emdorfel (?) old house is the large stone house in Stone Ride, where Washington spent a night and the bedroom was always left as he left it, with bed unmade, as he got out of it in the morning. Lovely old tile fireplace, the tiles were brought from Holland. It was owned long ago by a Wynkoop, one of our family, and inlaw married with Lounbery (?) a descendant still living there. William Lonsbury. It is opposite the old Nancy (?) Tack Inn, which was enlarged and rebuilt ____ place.
The old DePuy home that burned was b ack to the northwest of the Markle houses, the foundation was still there when I was a child. I know nothing of the Rest Place. My grandfather Schoonmaker might have. It may be near Rosendale, that was more Dutch in that _______.
If mother and even aunt Katherine had only reckoned to the interest of these things earlier, Aunt Helena, an older sister of Katherines knew all the families about there, and my grandfather Schoonmaker, too, who could speak Dutch, he, as a very young man fought in the war of 1812.
Hoping I have not tired you, and willing to give you any other information in my possession.
Cordially yours,
Marie DePuy Crispell
I should love to show you my old belongings. I
(source: LDSFHL#0931482, 0931483 Misc file of Ulster County, NY)
Port Jervis Church House
Deerpark Reformed Church30 East Main Street
Port Jervis, NY 12771
Reformed congregations share a commitment to sound preaching, Christian education for people of all ages, and loving spiritual care and guidance. RCA worship services range in character from highly formal to very informal, and many congregations have their own special worship traditions and practices.
These aspects of worship are usually shared by Reformed congregations:
Reformed Church worship is corporate.
Worship is not a performance with the minister as actor or actress and the congregation as the audience. God is the audience and the whole congregation is involved in the service, in prayer, song, and offering.
Reformed Church worship is liturgical.
Sometimes the expression "liturgical" is used to describe a church whose worship is highly formal and follows specific rituals; this is not the sense in which the term "liturgical" is used in Reformed circles. The word "liturgy" means "the work of the people." Reformed Church worship is liturgical in the sense that our worship involves the whole people of God in the activity of worship.
While each local congregation has its own worship traditions, most Reformed worship services include singing, praying together, and a message given by the pastor, based on a passage from the Bible.
Reformed Church worship is sacramental.
When we celebrate the sacraments of baptism and the Lord's Supper, God comes to us through all of our senses. We hear God's promise of forgiveness; we see and hear the water of baptism that cleanses; and we touch and smell and taste the bread and wine that signifies Christ's body and blood. Our faith is awakened, renewed, and energized when we celebrate the sacraments.
Source: https://www.rca.org/howweworship
Port Jervis, NY 12771
Reformed congregations share a commitment to sound preaching, Christian education for people of all ages, and loving spiritual care and guidance. RCA worship services range in character from highly formal to very informal, and many congregations have their own special worship traditions and practices.
These aspects of worship are usually shared by Reformed congregations:
Reformed Church worship is corporate.
Worship is not a performance with the minister as actor or actress and the congregation as the audience. God is the audience and the whole congregation is involved in the service, in prayer, song, and offering.
Reformed Church worship is liturgical.
Sometimes the expression "liturgical" is used to describe a church whose worship is highly formal and follows specific rituals; this is not the sense in which the term "liturgical" is used in Reformed circles. The word "liturgy" means "the work of the people." Reformed Church worship is liturgical in the sense that our worship involves the whole people of God in the activity of worship.
While each local congregation has its own worship traditions, most Reformed worship services include singing, praying together, and a message given by the pastor, based on a passage from the Bible.
Reformed Church worship is sacramental.
When we celebrate the sacraments of baptism and the Lord's Supper, God comes to us through all of our senses. We hear God's promise of forgiveness; we see and hear the water of baptism that cleanses; and we touch and smell and taste the bread and wine that signifies Christ's body and blood. Our faith is awakened, renewed, and energized when we celebrate the sacraments.
Source: https://www.rca.org/howweworship
Friday, January 15, 2010
Old Mine Road Monument and Map, Sussex, NJ; & NY
The original township of Walpack, which extended from the New York State line to the Delaware Water Gap, was the only portion of Sussex County traversed by the "Old Mine Road." (Sussex and Warren Counties, N - page 314)
The Old Mine Road was about 100 miles long, from Kingston, on the Hudson River, to the Delaware Water Gap; located up the Mamakating valley. Nicholas Depue lived on the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware, about three miles above the Water Gap.
Old Mine Road built about 1650
Bell House - has housed nine generations of same family.
Minisink Village - White men and Indians lived together.
Minisink Island - in river to the west
Westbrook Fort - During French and Indian War in rear of barn
Ennis House - Home of the first school teacher in Sussex county, one-half mile south
Marked by: .... Sussex County Historical Society
(Thanks to Marsha Pilger for the photo.)
Benjamin M Depuy 1775-1856
Benjamin M. Depuy - born 1775 / died 30 Apr 1856
Grandson of Benjamin who built the fort and son of Moses.
Peter Guimar
Pierre "Peter Gumaer" Guimar
born 1666 in Franch and died 1739
Marsha Pilger's 8th great grand-father
(Thanks to Marsha for the photo)
"Progenitor of the Gumears
who emigrated in the
present day town of Deerpark
died: 1739
aged: 73 years
........
Deerpark 1856
Decker Fort, New York
New York: Decker Fort
Home of Martinus Decker,
Burned by Brant's Raiders, July 20, 1779.
Rebuilt 1793.
Headquarters of John B. Jervis 1826-28
This house was occupied for 100 years (1865-1965)
by the family of Nellie R. Cannon
Through the efforts of Gertrude Lyons Kellam, this site was made available to the
Minisink Valley Historical Society in 1970.
Monday, February 2, 2009
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Elizabeth Story Depuy
Elizabeth is the daughter of John Depuy and Lucy Lonsberre Roberts. She lived in New York, Ohio, Illinois and Utah.
Deseret News June 11, 1903 page 3
Mrs. Elizabeth Story Depew Canfield Closes Remarkable Career
Special Correspondence: Enterprise, Washington County, Utah, June 8
She was born July 10, 1825 at Lysander, Onondaga, New York, moved at early age with her parents to Chicago, Ill., where she married David Canfield Oct, 1843. Received the gospel soon after and moved to Nauvoo, Ill. They shared in the suffering incident to the exodus of the Saints from Nauvoo, and moved back to Chicago, coming to Utah in 1850. They made their home in Provo, Utah for 11 years. When they were called to the Dixie Misison in 1861. They lived two years in St. George, Utah and eight years in Pine Valley Ward. Then they moved to the Mountain Meadlows, afterwards named Hamblin, Utah where she remained 33 years. Here her husband died, May 8, 1897. Mrs. Canfield acted as post mistress there for 28 years. She then moved to Enterprise, Utah in 1905 where she resided until the time of her death. She died at the home of a daughter Mrs. Alicve Lillian Knell, Cedar City, Utah June 5, 1908. Her burying remains were brought to the Meadows where they were intered in the family burying ground June 8. Mrs. Canfield leaves five children, 37 granchildren to revere her memory. Besides her family connections at the funeral were many friends from Cedar City, Pinto, Enterprise, and Gunlock.
Elder Joseph E. Robinson, President of the California Mission delivered a most eloquent discourse. Patriarch John S. Smith of Filmore offered the dedicatory prayer at the grave.
Lucy Philena Canfield Day
Lucy is the daughter of David Canfield and Elizabeth Story Depuy. Lucy died leaving three small children, and is buried in Hamblin, Washington County, Utah.
Benjamin Depuy Headstone
Located in Baldwinsville, near Lysander, New York.
Thanks to Wayne Shepherd for the use of his photo.
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
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