Gerrits, Jan (17th century)
Jan Gerrits, a preacher of the congregation at Uithoorn, Dutch province of North Holland. He and E. A. van Dooregeest were in the group delegated by the Zonists to negotiate with the Lamists in 1688 with the view of uniting the two groups. The negotiations, however, failed.
Bibliography
Hoop Scheffer, Jacob Gijsbert de. Inventaris der Archiefstukken berustende bij de Vereenigde Doopsgezinde Gemeente to Amsterdam. 2 v. Amsterdam: Uitgegeven en ten geschenke aangeboden door den Kerkeraad dier Gemeente, 1883-1884: I, Nos. 424, 26.
Mennonitische Blätter (1858): 28.
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