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John Brodhead Romeyn (17771825)

Description

John Brodhead Romeyn was born on 8 November 1777 in Marbletown, New York. After graduating with honors from Columbia College (now Columbia University), he returned home to study theology with his father, the pastor of Schenectady's Reformed Dutch Church. He was ordained in 1799, the same year he married Harriet (Arriantje) Bleecker (17801825), with whom he would have one son who died in infancy.

Citations

John Brodhead Romeyn Papers, Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia.

"John Brodhead Romeyn, D.D.," in William B. Sprague, Annals of the American Pulpit; or Commemorative Notices of Distinguished American Clergymen of Various Denominations (New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, 1860), Volume IV, 21624.

Rev. John Brodhead Romeyn D.D. in VanDerwerker Family Tree (Ancestry.com).