Domine Johannes Arondeus (c.1710 – c.1796) was one of the earliest pastors in American history who was sent to the Middle Colonies during the height of the First Great Awakening by the Dutch Church in Holland.
[5] He was ordained in Amsterdam on September 9, 1741,[6][7] and was invited by the Dutch Reformed Church on Long Island, Queens County, New York,[8][9] where he was to take the place of Reverend Bernhardus Freeman, whom had passed away in 1741.
[12][13] He returned to Holland on January 9, 1742, and requested the Classis of Amsterdam that he be released from his call to Long Island because of the ill health of his wife.
Vol 4, p. 2804 includes record of his support by the members of the congregation: "We have now got our new Domine; but with a true Christian joy, which continues and constantly increases, because of his great zeal and soul stirring sermons.
[19] Ulpianus van Sinderen, Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen, John Henry Goetchius[21] represented the pietist fraction.
One letter writes of him discrediting Arondeus at the door of the Dutch Reformed Church at Oyster Bay, Long Island.
[27] In a letter written from New York to the Classis in Amsterdam on December 2, 1772,[28] Arondeus writes what had happened to him after he left the church in America and went to Denmark where he could preach and earn a living there.
He explains how he had been the subject of slander and that Ulpianus van Sinderen, known as The Rebel Parson,[29] preached from the pulpit to his congregation the following about he, Arondeus: 'in the old countries I had hanged myself and had then been buried at a crossroad".