Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. 1633—1642. New Amsterdam in the Days of Wonter Van Twiller—English Difficulties—Wilhelra Kieft. During the interregnum which succeeded the departure of Minuit, the government was administered by the council, headed by Koopman Van Remund, the successor of Isaac de Rasieres. In April, 1633, the ship Sout- berg arrived at Manhattan, bringing Wouter Van Twiller, the new director-general, with a military force of a hundred and four soldiers, and a Spanish caraval which she had captured on the way. Among the passengers came also Everardus Bogardus and Adam Roelandsen, the first clergyman and schoolmaster of New Amsterdam. The reader is referred to Appendix, Note C., for a curious letter, recently transmitted to the Historical Society by the Hon. Henry C. Murphy, TJ. S. Minister at the Hague, bearing date the llth of August, 1628, and purporting to have been Addressed by Jonas Michaelius, first Minister of the Church of New Amsterdam, to Domine Adrianus Smoutius, Minister of the Dutch Reformed Church at Amsterdam. This letter, of the authenticity of which Mr. Murphy expresses himself strongly persuaded, was found among the papers of Jacobus Koning, clerk of the fourth judicial district of Amsterdam, and communicated to the Kerk-historisch Archief by J. J. Bodel Nijenhaus, Esq. Of its previous history, nothing whatever is known. In the records of the Classis of Amsterdam of a later date, Domine Michaelius is mentioned as the late minister of Virginia; and the fact that the Dutch A weaker, more vacillating or thoroughly incompetent governor could hardly have been selected than Wouter Van Twiller. He had married the niece of the wealthy patroon, Killian Van Reusselaer, and it was probably in consequence of this connection that he had succeeded in obtaining th...