ade him company's
storekeeper and second in military command; in 1649 and
1650, of the Falcon. Paulus Leendertsen van der Grift was
captain in the West India Company's service from at least
1644. In 1647 Stuyvesant made him superintendent of naval
equipment. In the first municipal government of New
Amsterdam, 1653, he was made a schepen (magistrate and
councillor), later a burgomaster.

(4) Reverend Johannes Backerus, minister for the Company at
Curacao from 1642 to 1647, was transferred to Amsterdam when
Stuyvesant came out, in order to fill the vacancy left by
Reverend Everardus Bogardus, minister at Manhattan from 1633
to 1647, who, after long quarrelling with Kieft, had gone
home in the same ship with him, the ill-fated Princess.

(5) Ensign Hendrick van Dyck came out in 1640 as commander
of the militia; again with Stuyvesant in 1647 as schout-
fiscaal. In 1652 Stuyvesant removed him from that office.
His defence of his official career, a valuable document, may
be seen in _N.Y. Col. Doc._, I. 491-513.

(6) See the introduction.

His first arrival--for what passed on the voyage is not for us to speak
of--was like a peacock, with great state and pomp. The declaration of
His Honor, that he wished to stay here only three years, with other
haughty expressions, caused some to think that he would not be a father.
The appellation of Lord General,(1) and similar titles, were never
before known here. Almost every day he caused proclamations of various
import to be published, which were for the most part never observed,
and have long since been a dead letter, except the wine excise, as that
yielded a profit. The proceedings of the Eight Men, especially against
Jochem Pietersz Cuyffer and Cornelis Molyn, happened in the beginning
of his administration. The Director showed himself so one-sided in them,
that he gave reason to many to judge of his character, yet little to his
advantage. Every one clearly saw that Director Kieft had more favor, aid
and counsel in his suit than his adversary, and that the one Director
was the advocate of the other as the language of Director Stuyvesant
imported and signified when he said, "These churls may hereafter
endeavor to knock me down also, but I will manage it so now, that they
will have their bellies full for the future." How it was managed, the
result of the lawsuit can bear witness. They