History of the growth of the Reformed Dutch Church in New Jersey, from the colonial New Netherlands era up to 1857. Introductory chapter describes relations with church in Netherlands and the founding of the local Classis, and of Queens College (later renamed Rutgers). Detailed civil history of the Township of Bergen, which comprised most of what became Hudson County. Final chapters give histories of 23 specific churches throughout northeast New Jersey. ; Classes of Hackensack and Bergen; Town and Township of Bergen; Church histories: Bergen; Hackensack and Schraalenberg; English Neighborhood; Second River, now Belleville; Bergen Neck; First Jersey City; First Newark; Clintonville, or Irvington; New Durham; Van Vorst; Second Newark; Third Newark (German); First Hoboken; Third Jersey City; German Evangelical of North Bergen; Hudson; Bergen Point; Franklin; Second Hackensack; German Evangelical at Hoboken; German Evangelical of Jersey City; North Church of Newark; Concluding Remarks