Article Holland Emigrants from the Christian Intelligencer

An article, entitled, Holland Emigrants, by the Rev. Thomas De Witt, which appeared in the Christian Intelligencer, p. 62. The main part of De Witt\u27s report is on H. P. Scholte\u27s colony at Pella, Iowa. He also reports that he heard in a recent letter from Albertus Van Raalte who said that about 1700 persons were now in the Holland Colony in three villages. The new sawmill has been erected and Van Raalte said that sufficient shelter would be provided by the coming winter. Another colony of emigrants who arrived in New York planned to settle in Wisconsin. De Witt claimed that most of the emigrants are pious.https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/vrp_1840s/1270/thumbnail.jp

Article Published in the Christian Intelligencer and Republished in the New York Observer and Chronicle

On this date there appeared in an issue of the New York Observer and Chronicle a copy of the article on the Holland Colony written by Rev. Thomas De Witt and published in the Christian Intellingencer.https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/vrp_1850s/1444/thumbnail.jp

Report to the General Synod About His Trip to the Netherlands in the Christian Intelligencer Dr. De Witt\u27s Visit to Europe

A record of the report of the Rev. Thomas De Witt to the General Synod about his trip to the Netherlands from which he had recently returned, as printed in the Christian Intelligencer, p. 191. Rev. H. P. Scholte is in New York City just at that time. De Witt speaks positively about the emigrants out of the Afscheiding who are coming to America in considerable numbers.https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/vrp_1840s/1269/thumbnail.jp

Letter from Thomas De Witt to Albertus C. Van Raalte

A letter from Rev. Thomas De Witt to Rev. Albertus C. Van Raalte concerning a financial matter. The handwriting is difficult to decipher. Albert Hyma gives a full transcription of the letter on page 206 of his Van Raalte biography.https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/vrp_1840s/1207/thumbnail.jp

Article Emigrants From Holland in the Christian Intelligencer

Another article by the Rev. Thomas De Witt, entitled, Emigrants From Holland, in the Christian Intelligencer, p. 18, reporting on the considerable number of emigrants who have arrived in New York during the last three months. Two settlements will be formed, composed mainly of those connected with the Secession from the Reformed Church of Holland, with whom one leading motive is the free, full and unembarrassed exercise of their faith and worship, as well as the attainment of a wider scope for the exercise of their industry, and reaping the fruits thereof. He reports on Rev. Van Raalte who by the advice of judicious friends, chose a tract in western Michigan. According to Van Raalte in his last report to De Witt 700 or 800 persons have arrived in the settlement. Mr. James Forrester has raised more than $600 for the erection of a sawmill in the Holland Colony. H. P. Scholte is now in St. Louis.https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/vrp_1840s/1263/thumbnail.jp

Article The Holland Colony in Michigan in the Christian Intelligencer

The Christian Intelligencer published an article on this date written by T.D.W. or Dr. Thomas De Witt, a pastor of the Collegiate Church in New York City, entitled The Holland Colony in Michigan. The author gave a brief history and description of the Holland Colony and the coming of the Dutch to the Middle West. The Holland Colony, he was told, numbered between five and six thousand. De Witt had visited the Colony a few months previous. He also spoke of Rev. Albertus Van Raalte\u27s concern for education.https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/vrp_1850s/1135/thumbnail.jp

Letter from Thomas De Witt to Rev. Elias Heiner

A letter of Thomas De Witt, a pastor in the Collegiate Church to a Rev. Elias Heiner of Baltimore per Rev. H. P. Scholte [which may account for the fact that the letter stayed in Pella], to whom De Witt commends Scholte and the need of his people. The expected emigrants from Holland are coming into the Baltimore harbor, I assume.https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/vrp_1840s/1146/thumbnail.jp

Letter of Thomas De Witt to Albertus C. Van Raalte

A letter of the Rev. Thomas De Witt, New York City, to A.C.V.R. regarding a draft of $321.99 for a property transaction.https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/vrp_1840s/1176/thumbnail.jp

Note of Emigrants from Holland in Christian Intelligencer

A brief notice about the Emigrants from Holland, written by Thomas De Witt on this day, which was printed in the Christian Intelligencer on January 7, 1847, p. 102. De Witt is stating that a number of immigrants will be staying in the New York area and need jobs. Cannot our friends procure for them some means of employment? De Witt also acknowledges receipt of two cash gifts totaling $35 from two members of the Collegiate Reformed Dutch Church in response to a recent notice in the Intelligencer.https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/vrp_1840s/1253/thumbnail.jp