New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-13
NEW PUBLICATIONS,
COLONIAL NEW-YORk.


Albany: Weed, Parsons Il Coz
n,o begin by saving that this latest addition 10
the valuable series of published documents Lci"'
mo 70 the Colonial History Of the state Oh Now
York is remarkably entertaining NoIu'he' We
trust that we shall not be suspected Oh uhueIr",s
nc real importance. 1t embraces great de'h VI
.ar;or. ontiouarian lore and many papers relating
IN the boundary disputes between the Dutch colony
ond its Yankee neghborS, the mcurslons OF INC
Tnr1;eb an Long Island i'll the last years OF Dutch
mic and the policy of the company at Ansteruaii'
&c detailed especiay in the correspondence "l Ieter
stpvvesaut. But in addition to these matters 'heio
are so many quaint particulars OF 'he uomos''0
DEMONSTRATION of the colony that the most careless
+riaer with history might find pleasure III inc pI"
nooes Often as we turn them, we can lahcV 'h"'
,o orc ,rr,,nocing in the library of Dcdrich kmck-
.rhocker That worthy certainly would nave ooon
de,;obted with the inst ructOns OfGovenorhleitah"
Lioncil 70 Secretary Tienhovcn to go with twenty
Eve soldiers TO Schouts Bay on Long Island ana sur
nr;se certain Yankee interlOpcrs or vagaoohus
.bo bad torn down the arms Of their Illgh MlghII-
resses the States General, and carved a 1901 nVu
in their place" all which appeared strange 'ou''
ing a case of crimeR lGSG mGJGStdttS, anu '.no7 "
The great disparagemcnt of their lilSh Ms'i''
sovereicnty." Quite in the spirit OF hhlcheIooCN.'
also is the formal complaint or neglect Vi ""'s
1o1ced bv the Governor and his CouncH agalhS.
.Netherland' from which 1t appears that tne
dol,onepcies of our modern police officials ana us
.r;c+ tttornevs have two hundred and forty years
of rrecendent Many complaints" so runs thiS
docnp emf. ARE daily heard of theits' roblere',
killina of hogs and goats, and other eNce'SeS' anu
they are increasing every day more ana more yea
will from all appearance shortly eliminate Ill pun
lie Numbering and highway robbery, and 1t Is more
over to be feared that people will murder one all
other. and all this because no delnquehtS are III
ros.od nrosecnted. or punished" There is fur
1ber charge against the Fiscal that he has " afro
ciouslc detained" Governor Kieft rs a rascal ana
thiof hnt this paragraph was cancelled. The
Governor seems to have fairly earned his soOrlqueI
of aWilliam the Testy" In 1G46 we find nm IN
stitutinO proceedings against the minister ENerar-
dus Bogardus a reverend gentleman who was long
remembered in the colony for his cordallly HIS 'Vh
ncrand his thirst Dominic BOgarduS had qualreileu
with Kieft's predecessor, WOuter van lWliler' anu
berated him as a child of the Devil, an hcaInd'c
villain whose buck goats were better than Ne anu
had promised TO "pitch into him from the pulpit.
"You have INDUCED 10 less III scattering abuse
durinc our administration" Kieft declares
Scarcely a person in the entire land have you
spared not even your own wife, or her sister par
+cnlarlv when You were in good company ana
Jolly" The catalogue of the Dominic 5 speclhc ms
deeds is long, and hardly fit for citation III luli
"Wheu minister Douthey administered the Lore
Supper in the m9rning, you came drunk h'o TIC
pulpit In the afternoon; also on the Fluay oelo'
Christmas of the same year. when you preached the
sermon calling 10 repentance" III the o'GHlhins
of the wear 1915, being at supper at the tlScalN
where you arrived drunk. You commenced as Is
vonr cnstom 10 scold your DeacOnS and the Secrc-
torvr On the Dist of March lG4j, beng at a
veddinr-feast az Adam BTOuwcrs, and pretty
drink. YOU commenced scodng the Fiscal ana Sec
Rotary then present, censurng also the Director not
n little~ Bogardus refused TO answer the charges
except by what Kieft and the Council called VAN
subteIfuge, caumny, insult and proclamation OF
Gods holy word" difficulty which the magistrates
appear to have met by issuing fresh citations at
intervals for about six months Finally BogarduS'
Kieft. and the delinquent Fiscal, Van der Hoykens
all sailed for Holland in the same ship and were
drowned at sea.
Director Peter Stuyvesant did not bring peace to
New-NetLerland and among the many complaints
which the home authorities made of his conduct Is
the following: 1--WE are surprised that you amuse
yourself with protests and contemporaries against
the municipal officers concerning matters OF so
little importance for instance, the pcws and seats
in the church, and, we trust that the church IS
large enough to place every according to his
rank il appears to that such triiles do not de-
serve so much attention especially in these trouble
some times" Church matters were almost stand
ing cause of trouble. The villagers AZ Breuckclen
Brooklvu) petitioned in 1896 that Dominic Pol
hemius Should be allowed To ot1ciate alternately III
Mdwout Flatbush and Brooklyn, which he ap-
pears willing TO do" and Governor StUyycsant and
his Council decided by vote that they had no OH
lection against Dominic johanna POlhemius Ohiciat-
ing alternately at both places; but they added,
with a charming touch of caution, "wIGd and
weather permitting" In less than year however,
10 Rrnollvu nconlp tired of Dominic pOlhcmiuS
and asked to be excused from paying their snare of
his salary on the plea that his mlnistTatiOns were
not worth the price. "During the two weeks he
comes here only for quarter of an hour on Sunday
afternoon, gives only prayer Instead OF a -er-
mon from which learn and understand lit,lc,
and when we think that the prayer or sermon, or
whatever it be called, is beginning, it is already
over so that he gives little edIiicatiOn to the con-
gregation.n Even during the Christmas holidays
the only edifcatiOn they had was prayer
short that it was over before had collected our
thoughts" They were held to their duty, however:
and later find that certain villagers who refused
TO nav were fined double the amount of their
ment.
The Dutch West India Company practised tOler-
ance in religious matters which was not too common
in those DAYS their object being, rs they explained
in letter to Stuyvesant, to offer all possible m
ducements to colonists; but they had some trouble
in making the headstrOng Governor conform 10
their policy. They refused request from him
"that the new territories should not be further
invaded by people of Jewish race; and they
roundly rebuked him for presuming to forbid the
Jews trading 10 Fort Orange and purchasing real
estate On the other hand, they unwilling that
the Jews should have sy nagOgue, or be employed
in any public service above all that they should
open retail shops, that possibly the invasion
was eflectualy impeded. The Governor sent
Lutherans TO prison for refusing TO be converted to
the Reformed Church; but the Company, though
they rejected petition from these people " for