[2] The church was established in 1677 by ethnic Dutch residents in the town of New Utrecht, Brooklyn, several years after the English took over New Netherland.

It is affiliated with the Reformed Church in America, a Protestant denomination.

The Liberty Pole, the sixth on the site of the present church, was originally erected in 1783 at the end of the Revolutionary War to harass departing British troops.

Both the church and the cemetery are listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

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