The church was occasionally served by traveling French Reformed ministers, but in their absence, families traveled to the Dutch Reformed Church in Kingston for occasions like marriages and baptisms. 

From 1702 to 1731, the church had no settled minister. 

The first record mentioning a schoolmaster, Jean Cottin, is a deed in 1689, but it does not specify the exact location where he taught. 

Church records were kept in French until the 1730s, when they transitioned to Dutch, and then to English around 1800. 

Church records were kept in French until the 1730s, when they transitioned to Dutch, and then to English around 1800. 

Patentees Louis DuBois and Hugo Freer were elected the first Elder and Deacon of the congregation in 1683, respectively. Elders and deacons read sermons in French in the absence of ministers from 1702 to 1731.  

Between 1766 and 1783 a second Dutch Reformed Church, known as the New Paltz Conferentie Church, or “Owl Church,” existed in New Paltz on Libertyville Road to the west of the Wallkill River. The two congregations took opposite sides in a dispute about establishing an American governing body for the Dutch Reformed church in the colonies, but eventually the Owl Church rejoined the first church.