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DE WITT, Thomas, clergyman, born in Kingston, New York, 13 September 1791; died in New York City, 18 May 1874. He was graduated at Union in 1808, and studied theology in the seminary at New Brunswick, where he was graduated in 1812. The same year he was ordained pastor of the combined congregations of New Haekensack and Hopewell, Dutchess County, New York, where he remained until 1827, when he accepted a call to the Collegiate Dutch Church of New York City, of which he was the senior clergyman from 1858 until his death. He was vice president for many years of the New York historical society, and its president in 18724; also an active director of the Bible, Colonization, Tract, and Sunday school societies, as well as the boards of his Church. He published very little, even his sermons being generally unwritten. He was one of the last of the ministers of the Reformed Dutch Church who could preach in the Dutch language.
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