Flatlands Dutch Reformed Church [SEP] located in the administrative territorial entity
Flatlands Dutch Reformed Church
Flatlands Dutch Reformed Church, also known as Flatlands Reformed Church, is a historic Dutch Reformed church at Kings Highway and East 40th Street in the Flatlands neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. The complex consists of the church, administration building, and cemetery. The congregation was founded in 1654. The church was built in 1848 in the Greek Revival style. The Greek Revival administration building was constructed in 1904; it was enlarged in the 1920s. The cemetery contains about 1,500 burials dating to 1660.
Steven van Voorhees
Steven Coertse van Voorhees (1600 – 16 February 1684) was an early Dutch settler in America and the patriarch of the Voorhees family line and namesakes.
In 1664, he was a magistrate of what is now Flatlands and founder of the Dutch Reformed Church in present-day Flatlands, Brooklyn.
Biography.
Biography Early life.
Steven Van Voorhees was born in 1600 in Hees, a village in Drenthe, The Netherlands. He was the son of Coert Albertse van Voorhees, of Hees,