23 King Street

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1826
The True Dutch Reformed Church is completed at 23 King Street, in an earlier building on this lot
Rev. Cornelius T. Demarest, a New Jersey pastor suspended by his regional church body in 1824 after a dispute over doctrine, moved his family to New York and founded the True Dutch Reformed Church at 23 King Street. The church was finished in 1826, around the time a row of Federal-style houses went up beside it, and the Demarests settled next door at No. 21. This was an earlier building on the site of today's 23 King Street.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1862
December 26
Rev. Cornelius Demarest, founder of the True Dutch Reformed Church at 23 King Street, dies at 76
Demarest, who had founded the True Dutch Reformed congregation at 23 King Street, was 76 when he died on December 26, 1862. His funeral, announced in the New York Times, was held three days later at a Dutch Reformed church on King Street, presumably his own. That church was an earlier building on the site of today's 23 King Street.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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