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PASTOR OF THE REFORMED DUTCH CHURCH AT BLOOMINGDALE, IN THE

CITY OF NEW YORK.

RUTGERS PRESS, NEW-YORK.

WILLIAM A. MERCEIN, PRINTER.

1829,

Southern District of New York, ss.

BE IT REMEMBERED, That Ou the eleventh day of May, A. D. 1829, in the fifty-third year of the Independence of the United States of America, Alexander Gunn, of the said district. has deposited in this office the title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as Author and Proprietor, in the words following, to wit:

"Memoirs of the Rev. John H. Livingston, D. D. S. T. P. prepared in compliance with a request of the General Synod of the Reformed Dutch Church in North America, by Alexander Gunn, Pastor of the Reformed Dutch Church at Bloomingdale, in the City of New York."

In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the time therein mentioned;" and also to an Act, entitled an Act, supplementary to an Act, entitled, an Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and etching historical and other prints."

FREDERICK J. BETTS, Clerk of the Southern District of New York.

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A Copy of the Official Communication of the
Stated Clerk of General Synod to the Author.

"REV. A. GUNN D. D.

Rev. and Dear Sir,

"Flatbush, June 14th 1828."

I have the honour and happiness to transmit

to you the following resolutions adopted by the General Synod of the Reformed Dutch Church, at their sessions in Albany, during the present month.

Your's, in the bonds of the Gospel,

THOMAS M. STRONG."

"Resolved, That the Committee appointed in 1826, to procure materials for a Memoir of the late Reverend and venerable John H. Livingston, D. D. S. T. P. and engage a person to write it, be discharged from the farther consideration of the subject, and be requested to put any materials collected by them, into the hands of such person as General Synod shall appoint to prepare such Memoir."

"Resolved, that the Rev. Alexander Gunn, D.D. be, and hereby is appointed, and requested to write and publish such a Memoir as was contemplated by the Resolution of General Synod, in the session of 1826.

"Resolved, that the Rev. Drs. Knox and McMurray, with the Rev. C. C. Cuyler, be a Committee to inspect the work, previous to publication, and fix the amount of compensation to Dr. Gunn, out of the profits arising from the sale of the work."

A true Extract from the Minutes of General Synod,

THOMAS M. STRONG, Stated Clerk.”

A Copy of the Opinion expressed by the Committee of General Synod, after inspecting the Manuscript of the Memoir.

"The undersigned, having at the request of the author, and in compliance with the object of their appointment, as a Committee of Synod, carefully perused the manuscript Memoir of the late Professor Livingston, prepared by the Rev. Dr. Gunn; have much pleasure in bearing their decided testimony to the able manner in which the task has been accomplished. With much well directed labour, and in a manner that will not fail to prove gratifying to the church, the author has reduced to order a large amount of interesting and important matter."

"The volume now about to be presented to the Public, contains, it is believed, a faithful picture of the revered individual, whose eventful life it portrays; and at the same time exhibits all the most prominent features of the history of the Reformed Dutch Church in this country; together with valuable passing notices of many of her most distinguished sons, who have from time to time entered into rest.”

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"The work, we doubt not, will be perused with interest; and regarded as an important addition to the biography of those whose memory is blessed." With prayer for its usefulness, we do hereby cordially recommend it to the patronage of the christian community and especially of every Minister, Consistory, and Member of the Reformed Dutch Church."

JOHN KNOX,

WM. MCMURRAY,

Committee of
General Synod.

C. C. CUYLER,

New York, 1st April, 1829.

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