The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-10-24

How did Trinity acquire its extraordinary
wealth. The story, which involves even more
litigation than Dickens celebrated case OF
Jarndyce and Jarndyce, begins ten years
after Peter Minuit, governor or director gen
eral of the colony known rs New Netherland
on behalf of the West India company, bought
the site of New York, al coo morgens," or
700 acres, from the Indians for beads
and trinkets which cost sixty guilders, or
about S24
In the year 1850 sturdy Dutchman named
Roeloff Jansen, landed at New Amsterdam.
now the city of New York. He had been
somebody in his native town. Maasland and
lie meant to be somebody in the new country
10 which he had come, and he was More
than that, he is somebody still, in history.
lie lived six years at Rensslaerswyck, on the
Hudson, and then in 1896 came with his
family to New Amsterdam, and obtained
from Director Van Twiller n ground brief or
patent for the farm "Bouwery" of sixty
two acres, which has been for nearly 200
years n bone of bitter contention. This was
the original conveyance of the valuable estate
since known as Trinity church property. 1t
begins south of Warren street, thence north
westerly a mile and n half to Christopher
street, thus forming "A sort of unequal triangle
with its base upon the North river.
Roeloff Jansen did not long remain in the
enjoyment of his new possessions. \ year
later he embarked for another world, that
world whose boundaries no mortal man has
defined. Behind him he left five sturdy chill
dren and handsome widow. Women, par
ticularly rich AMI good looking ones were
scarce in the little colony, while men were
plenty. She, who has since been known to so
wide a circle as Mrs Anneke JAMS, ceased
her weeping early, and within a year took
husband, in the person of n dominic,
Everarrius Bogarlus. the second established
clergyman in the settlement. He was n man
of education and intellect, as well rs great
force and Independence of spirit He held
his trust directly from the directors of the
company i'll Holland, and wasn't afraid to
differ from the local government and say SD
In plain and vigorous language.
Human nature in that primitive day seems
to have been quite as far from perfection as
1t Is now. History has recorded acts of
malice, envy, cowardice and malevolence on
the part of the colouistS quite equal to any
thing perpetrated in this unregenerate day.
The first families, too, were the culpable
ones There was bad blood between Dominic
I'oSardus and Director Van Twiller. They
called each other opprobious names, charged
each other with reprehensible conduct, and
finally brought up in the courts with an
affair which was only settled by the inter
ference OF mutual friends. They undoubtedly
had warm times
Director kieft Jared no better. The dominic
frequently let drive at him from the pulpit.
In one OF his sermons he said: What are the
great men of the country, but vessels of
wrath and fountains of woe and trouble!
They think of nothing but to plumber the
property of Others, to dismiss. to banish. to
transport to Holland" Everybody in the
congregation knew that that shaft was
aimed at the director, and after services there
was much whispering, shoulder Struggling,
speculation rs to consequences and secret en-
joyment of the battle between the two most
eminent men in the colony.
The courageous dominic, however. met
with cruel fate. He went to visit the vader-
land, and persisted by shipwreck on the rocks
off the coast of Wales. His widow died in the
year 1865, leaving four children by her first
marriage and four by her second. The de