page_title: Colonial history of New Jersey
section_title: Dutch Reformed Church
hierarchical_section_title: Colonial history of New Jersey / Religion / Dutch Reformed Church
caption_attribution_description: English: Schraalenburgh North Church
context_page_description: European colonization of New Jersey started soon after the 1609 exploration of its coast and bays by Sir Henry Hudson. Dutch and Swedish colonists settled parts of the present-day state as New Netherland and New Sweden. In 1664 the entire area, surrendered to the English, gained its current name. With the Treaty of Westminster in 1674 London formally gained control of the region; it retained that control until the American Revolution.
context_section_description: After the final transfer of power to the English, New Netherlanders and their descendants spread across East Jersey and established many of the towns and cities which exist today. The Dutch Reformed Church played an important role this expansion  Following the course of the Hudson River in the north to the Raritan River in the south,  settlement and population  grew along what George Washington called the "Dutch Belt". The American classis secured a charter in 1766 for Queens College (now Rutgers University), where the appointment in 1784 of John Henry Livingston as professor of theology marked the beginning of the New Brunswick Theological Seminary.
caption: Schraalenburgh North Church
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