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Samuel Verbryck    
Born: 30 Apr 1721

   
Married: 07 Apr 1750 Hackensack, NJ

   
Died: 31 Jan 1784 Clarkstown, Rockland Co., NY
Buried: Tappan, Rockland Co., NY
"In Memory of the Rev. Samuel Verbryck, late Minister of the gospel at Tappan and New Hempstead, who departed this life on the 31st of January, 1784, aged 62 years, 9 months, and 13 days."

FATHER

Bernardus Verbryck

MOTHER

Jannetje Schenk

WIFE

Susanna Van Der Linde
b. 18 May 1723
d. 16 Aug 1807

CHILDREN

1. Ariaentje Verbryck b. 18 Jul 1751

2. Bernardus Verbryck b. 01 Mar 1753

3. Hendrick Van Der Linde Verbryck b. 04 Jan 1755

4. Jannetje Verbryck b. 19 oct 1759

5. Samuel Gerritsen Verbryck b. 07 Mar 1761

6. Roelof Verbryck b. 15 Feb 1766

 

Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature, Volume 10
By John McClintock, James Strong

Verbryck, Samuel, one of the progressive clergymen of the Reformed (Dutch) Church in America, who established its independence of the Church in Holland, studied under dominies LeydL, Goetschius, and Vanderlinde. He was licensed by the Coetus, or American Classis, in 1749, and was settled at Tappan and New Hempstead (now Clarkstown), N. Y., from 1750 to 1784. He was an ardent friend of ministerial education in this country. His efforts to get a charter from the governor of New Jersey in 1761 for an academy so offended many of his people that they refused to pay his salary. The Conference party presented him to the Classis of Amsterdam for ecclesiastical censure, complaining that if he procured the charter for an academy, it would only multiply just such ministers as himself. But he outlived all this, and saw the full fruit of his labors and those of his noble coadjutors in the establishment of Queen's College in 1770, of which he was one of the first trustees appointed by the charter itself. Such names and services deserve remembrance. Mr. Verbryck was a godly minister, and of good repute among all but his adversaries in these ecclesiastical and educational conflicts. He died in 1784. See Corwin, Manual of the Ref. Church, s. v. (W. J. R. T.)