Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. III

The Hon^'«. Pieter Minuit is Director there at present ; Jan Lp mpo Schout [Slieriff] ; St^bastiaen Jansz Crol and Jan Huyck, Comforters of the Sick, who, whilst awaiting a clergyman, read to the Commonalty there on Sundays, from teits of Scripture with the Comment. Francois Moleraaecker is busy building a horse-mill, over whicli shall be constructed a spacious room sufficient to ac-

1 Thfi Aim« of Amsfp.nlam, sailod from Hip Manli.iUans on '23d Septr. 1626.

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commodate a large congregation, and the]i a tower is to be erected where tlie bells l)rought from Porto Kico will be hung.

The Council there administered Justice in criminal matters as

far as imposing fines {hoet-strajj'e)^ but not as far as Of the Conn- Capital punlshmcnt. Should it happen that any one o_m e jeai ^ggpj.^,pg ^^-^^^^ \,q must bc scut to HoUaud with his sentence. Cornells May of Hoorn was in the year 1624, the first Director there ; Willem Van Hulst was the second in the

year 1625. He returns now. There is another there in^ib^year ^^^n^^ ^|jg ^^^ pubUc office ; he Is busy about his own

affairs. Men work there as in Holland ; one trades upwards, southwards and northwards; another builds houses, tlie third farms. Each farmer has his farm and tlie cows on the land purchased by tlie Company ; but the milk remains to the profit of the Boor ; he sells it to those of the people wl]o receive their wages for work every week. TJie houses of tlie Hollanders now stand without the fort, but when that is completed, they w^ill all repair within, so as to garrison it and be secure from sudden attack.