Rev. Gideon N. Judd’s historical sketch of the Presbyterian Church of Bloomfield, now known as the Bloomfield Presbyterian Church on the Green, stands as a timeless testament to faith and community.
Published in 1835 by K. Kellogg of New York under the title “Historical Sketch, Confession of Faith, and Catalogue of Members, of the Presbyterian Church in Bloomfield, N.J.,” this seminal work offers a captivating journey into the annals of a burgeoning congregation.
At the outset of this enlightening volume, Rev. Judd acknowledges his sources, drawing from the rich tapestry of the church’s narrative:
“Of the Presbyterian Church in Bloomfield, New Jersey, from the time of its organization, to April 15th, 1834, prepared from the Records of the Presbytery by which it was organized, the Records of the Church, and information obtained from the oldest members then living, by Rev. Gideon N. Judd.”
While the historical sketch meticulously recounts the formative years of the church, it is the catalogue of members that offers a treasure trove for family historians and genealogists alike.
This catalogue grants a rare glimpse into the lives of individuals who shaped the fabric of Bloomfield in the 1830s, many of whom hail from the town’s earliest founding families.
Names such as Baldwin, Ball, Cadmus, Crane, Dodd, and Ward resonate throughout Bloomfield’s history, some tracing their lineage back to the pioneering settlers of Newark in 1666.
Now we present the names enshrined in Rev. Judd’s Catalogue of Members, immortalizing their enduring legacy within the long history of the Bloomfield Presbyterian Church on the Green.
Are any of your ancestors on the list?
Catalogue or Officers and Members, April 1, 1835.
Pastor
Ebenezer Seymour, installed May 14, 1834.
Elders
Israel Crane, appointed Nov. 8, 1812.
Moses Dodd, appointed Nov. 8, 1812.
Zophar B. Dodd, appointed Aug. 30, 1822.
Caleb Baldwin, appointed Aug. 30, 1822.
Bethuel Ward, appointed Nov. 2, 1834.
Eliphalet Hall, appointed Nov. 2, 1834.
Matthias Smith, appointed Nov. 2, 1834.
Elias B. Crane, appointed Nov. 2, 1834.
Members
Aikin, Eliza, widow of Robert
Baker, Matthias
Baker, Mary, wife of Matthias
Baldwin, Joanna & Ichabod
Baldwin, Simeon
Baldwin, Elizabeth, wife of Simeon
Baldwin, Squier
Baldwin, Moses
Baldwin, Isaac
Baldwin, Phebe, wife of Isaac
Baldwin, Jemima & Eleazar
Baldwin, Mary & Caleb
Baldwin, Zenas
Baldwin, Prudence, wife of Zenas
Baldwin, Joseph H.
Baldwin, Lydia.
Baldwin, Mary, widow of Samuel
Baldwin, Hannah, wife of Matthias
Baldwin, Elizabeth
Baldwin, Rebecca
Baldwin, Jane, wife of James
Baldwin, Artemas N.
Baldwin, Charlotte, wife of Artemas N.
Baldwin, Warren S.
Baldwin, Betsey, widow of I. Allen
Baldwin, Charlotte
Baldwin, Sarah
Baldwin, Harriet P., wife of William
Baldwin, Frances W.
Baldwin, Hannah
Baldwin, Jane T.
Baldwin, Elvira M.
Baldwin, Susan M., wife of Caleb
Baldwin, Ephraim
Ball, Sarah, widow
Ball, Jane, wife of Amzi L.
Ball, Jane, wife of Moses
Ball, Emeline
Ballard, Aaron E.
Ballard, Sally, wife of Aaron E.
Ballard, Sarah
Bedell, Martha
Benjamin Hannah
Blake, Priscilla
Brown, Hannah G., wife of Abraham
Brown, Thomas
Cadmus, Maria, widow of Thomas
Cadmus, John A.
Cadmus, Hermon
Cadmus, Sally, wife of Hermon
Cadmus, Cornelius
Cadmus, Rachael
Campbell, Ira
Campbell, Jane, wife of Ira
Campbell, Ann
Clark, Joanna, widow
Cockefair, Phebe
Collins, Jane, wife of Isaac
Collins, Maria, wife of Thomas
Collins, Joseph
Collins, Maria, wife of Joseph
Condit, Rachel, wife of Moses W.
Condit, William D.
Crane, Aaron
Crane, Tabitha, wife of Aaron
Crane, Joshua
Crane, Josias
Crane, Anne & Elias D.
Crane, William P.
Crane, Mary, wife of William P.
Crane, Hannah, widow of Nathaniel
Crane, Elizabeth, widow of Jeremiah
Crane, Sarah, widow of Joseph
Crane, Abby
Crane, Sally
Crane, Matilda, wife of Timothy
Crane, Zenas S.
Crane, Maria, wife of Zenas S.
Crane, Sally, wife of Moses
Crane, Ira
Crane, Margaret, wife of Ira
Crane, Linus
Crowly, Charles E.
Davis, Anna, widow
Davis, Sally, wife of Moses F.
Davis, Hannah, wife of Caleb S.
Davis, Mary
Davis, Henrietta
Deming, Friend A.
Dickinson, Zebulon B.
Dodd, Abijah
Dodd, Mary J., wife of Abijah
Dodd, Daniel
Dodd, Esther, wife of Daniel
Dodd, Isaac, Jr.
Dodd, Catharine, wife of Isaac, Jr.
Dodd, Nathaniel
Dodd, Lucy, wife of Nathaniel
Dodd, Jane & Zophar B.
Dodd, Nathaniel, Jr.
Dodd, Samuel
Dodd, Eliza, wife of Samuel
Dodd, Alvin H.
Dodd, Mary, wife of Alvin H.
Dodd, Moses W.
Dodd, Moses, Jr.
Dodd, Isaac N.
Dodd, Mary K., wife of Isaac N.
Dodd, Jairus
Dodd, Abagail, widow of John
Dodd, Margaret & Moses
Dodd, Rhoda
Dodd, Mima
Dodd, Ann, wife of Ira
Dodd, Jemima, widow of Samuel
Dodd, Polly, wife of Amos
Dodd, Phebe
Dodd, Betsey, wife of James
Dodd, Abby
Dodd, Charlotte, widow of Abner
Dodd, Phebe
Dodd, Charlotte
Dodd, Catharine K.
Dodd, Susan, widow of William B.
Dodd, Phebe P.
Dodd, Louisa
Dodd, Emma F., wife of Dr. Joseph S.
Doremus, Charlotte, wife of George H.
Doremus, John C.
Doremus, Mary K., wife of John C.
Downs, Eunice, wife of Israel
Downs, Eliza, wife of Araspes
Durling, Nathaniel
Earl, Sally, wife of Abraham
Egbertson, Jane, widow
Exley, John
Exley, Mary, wife of John
Exley, Thomas
Exley, Betsy M., wife of Thomas
Fairchild, Josiah
Fairchild, Sally, wife of Josiah
Farrand, Cornelia Ann B., wife of Moses
Frame, Grace, widow of Andrew
Garrabrant, Mary
Gildersleeve, Frances Caroline & Rev. C.
Gillespie, Esther, widow
Graham, Emma, wife of George
Hall, Joseph
Hall, Amelia, wife of Joseph
Hall, Electa & Eliphalet
Hall, Richard
Hagar, Maria, wife of Jesse
Hagar, Jotham M.
Hagar, John H.
Hanly, Hannah & William
Harris, William H.
Harris, Phebe, wife of William H.
Harrison, Mary, widow of Isaac
Harrison, Jane, widow of Caleb
Harrison, Sally, wife of Moses
Harrison, Margaret, wife of John
Harrison, Maria
Harrison, Catharine, wife of Jared E.
Hayes, Sally, widow
Holt, Warren
Hopper, Susanna, widow
Jacobus, Isaac
Jacobus, Sarah, wife of Isaac
Jacobus, Margaret
Judd, Catharine & Rev. G. N.
Judd, Mary Elizabeth
Keene, Alfred
Keene, Phebe, wife of Alfred
Kelly, Phebe, widow
Kent, Ellen, wife of Peter
King, Betsy, widow of Henry
King, Sarah, wife of Aury
King, Lorinda, wife of Isaac
King, Ann, widow of John J.
King, Margaret
Laing, Robert
Leonard, David
Leonard, Mary, wife of David
Little, Mary, wife of Elias
Little, Hiram
Luke, Rachel, widow
Mahar, William
Mahri, Electa, wife of William
Mather, Sarah H., wife of Edward
McGarry, Betsy, wife of Charles
McGee, Samuel
McGee, Eliza, wife of Samuel
Mead, Jacob K.
Mead, Patty, wife of Jacob K.
Mead, Caroline
Mingis, Abigail, wife of John
Monroe, Silas
Morris, Sarah, widow
Morris, Joseph
Morris, Susan, wife of Joseph
Morris, Stephen
Morris, Catharine, wife of Stephen
Morris, James
Morris, Matilda, wife of James
Morris, Margaret, wife of Albert
Morris, Martha, wife of Ephraim
Morris, Truelove, wife of Jacob
Morris, William
Morris, Harriet, wife of William
Morris, Esther, wife of David
Morris, Emeline
Morris, Joanna
Morris, Adelia Sophia
Moore, Martin S.
Moore, Caroline O., wife of Martin S.
Moore, Rachel & Stephen C.
Munn, John
Munn, Eunice, wife of John
Munn, Rhoda
Munn, Harriet
Oakes, Abigail H., wife of David
Oakes, Sarah
Osborn, John H.
Osborn, Rhoda, wife of John H.
Osborn, Elias
Osborn, Harriet
Osborn, Polly, widow
Oughletree, Martha, wife of Daniel
Perry, Margaret, widow
Perry, Jane, wife of George
Pier, William
Pierson, Joanna, widow of David
Pierson, Aaron
Pierson, Mary, wife of Aaron
Pitt, Samuel
Pitt, Sarah, wife of Samuel
Post, William C.
Post, Catharine, wife of William C.
Riker, David
Riker, Joanna, wife of David
Riker, Samuel
Riker, Dorcas, wife of Samuel
Riker, Israel
Riker, Mary, wife of Israel
Riker, Margaret, wife of Matthew
Rogers, Jane, widow
Rutan, Samuel H.
Rutan, Hannah, wife of Samuel H.
Sanderson, Charlotte
Sayre, Abby
Seymour, Eliza, widow
Seymour, Mary & Rev. E.
Shelly, Phebe, wife of Samuel
Sherrill, Franklin
Sherrill, Mary Ann, wife of Franklin
Sindle, Thomas
Smith, Jemima & Matthias
Smith, John
Smith, Jane, widow
Smith, Nancy, wife of E. Jr.
Smith, William
Smith, Harriet G., wife of William
Smith, Mary Ann
Spear, Thomas
Spear, Margaret, wife of Thomas
Spear, William P.
Spear, Rachel A.
Taylor, David
Taylor, James H.
Taylor, Mary Ann, wife of James H.
Thomas, Marquis D.
Thomas, Lydia, wife of Marquis D.
Thompson, Betsy, wife of D. W.
Tichenor, Thomas S.
Tucker, Benjamin
Tucker, Jane, wife of Benjmain
Vanderlyn, James A.
Vanderlyn, Highly, wife of James A.
Van Giesen, Jane
Van Houten, Lydia, widow
Ward, Caleb S.
Ward, Eunice, wife of Caleb S.
Ward, Abiathar
Ward, Nancy, wife of Abiathar
Ward, Eleazar D.
Ward, Urania, wife of Eleazar D.
Ward, Rhoda & Bethuel
Ward, Linus D.
Ward, Julia Ann, wife of Linus D.
Ward, Susan, widow
Ward, Josiah S.
Ward, Thomas S.
Ward, Hannah
Ward, Israel C.
Ward, Almeda, wife of Israel C.
Ward, Sarah Elizabeth
Ward, Alexander S.
Ward, Emily Theresa
Ward, Uzal D.
Ward, Caroline
Ward, Catharine, widow of Stephen
Ward, Lydia, widow of Nehemiah
Ward, Keziah
Ward, Lucy, widow of Joseph S.
Ward, Phebe
Ward, Phebe, wife of Jotham
Ward, Elizabeth J.
Ward, Polly, widow of Robert
Ward, Charlotte
Ward, Catharine, wife of Charles V.
Ward, Moses D.
Ward, Eliza
Ward, John
Wharry, Elizabeth, wife of Charles
Wheeler, Lydia
Wheeler, Isaac B.
Wheeler, Harriet, wife of Isaac B.
Whelpley, Sarah, widow
Williamson, Margaret, widow of William
Williamson, Ann, widow of Alexander
Woodruff, Abigail widow
Zeek, Abraham
Early African American Members
Among the parishioners were members of the early African American community living in Bloomfield and what is now Montclair.
One person on this list, Delilah Howe, shares a surname with James Howe, a formerly enslaved man who was freed in 1817. His home on Claremont Avenue in Montclair is now being restored and maintained by Friends of the Howe House, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.
Baldwin, Joseph
Baldwin, James
Franklin, Hannah
Howe, Delilah
Jackson, Elizabeth, wife of Thomas
Vandyke, Jane
Vreeland, Sally
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