Title: Drenthe Presbyterian Church Collection, 1851-[1999]
Abstract
Minutes and membership data from Drenthe Presbyterian Church, 1851-1886, at Drenthe, Michigan. Originally in the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, the congregation was part of the merger that created the United Presbyterian Church of North America in 1858. The collection contains biographical data detailing Roelof Smit (1815-1886), the congregation's pastor; biographical data detailing Jacob R. Schepers (1819-1878), the pastor of the Associated Reformed Congregation at South Holland, and Graafschap, Michigan; and genealogical data on the Dutch families in Drenthe.