[3] The Secession of 1834 began in Ulrum, a town in the north of the Dutch province of Groningen.
[1][4] Before the secession, their pastor, Reverend Hendrik de Cock had been forbidden by the government to preach and had orders not to warn people against what he believed to be the erroneous teachings of some of his colleagues.
Some reformers decided it was time to move and so migrated to America,[3] with some going to New York and Michigan.
After more trouble and the leaders not accepting and wanting to preach certain aspects, they formed the Christian Protestant church.
These two denominations flourished when a spike in Dutch immigration occurred at the end of the Second World War.