n by Wouter van Twyler into the service of the Company, in
which service he profited somewhat. He became a freeman, and finally
took charge of the trading business for Gilles Verbruggen and his
company in New Netherland. This Loockmans ought to show gratitude to the
Company, next to God, for his elevation, and not advise its removal from
the country.

Hendrick Kip is a tailor, and has never suffered any injury in New
Netherland to our knowledge.

Jan Evertsen-Bout, formerly an officer of the Company, came the last
time in the year 1634, with the ship Eendracht [Union], in the service
of the Honorable Michiel Paauw, and lived in Pavonia until the year
1643, and prospered tolerably. As the Honorable Company purchased the
property of the Heer Paauw, the said Jan Evertsen succeeded well in the
service of the Company, but as his house and barn at Pavonia were burnt
down in the war, he appears to take that as a cause for complaint. It
is here to be remarked, that the Honorable Company, having paid 26,000
guilders for the colony of the Heer Paauw, gave to the aforesaid Jan
Evertsen, gratis, long after his house was burnt, the possession of the
land upon which his house and farmstead are located, and which yielded
good grain. The land and a poor unfinished house, with a few cattle,
Michiel Jansen has bought for eight thousand guilders.

In brief, these people, to give their doings a gloss, say that they are
bound by oath and compelled by conscience; but if that were the case
they would not assail their benefactors, the Company and others, and
endeavor to deprive them of this noble country, by advising their
removal, now that it begins to be like something, and now that there is
a prospect of the Company getting its own again. And now that many of
the inhabitants are themselves in a better condition than ever, this is
evidently the cause of the ambition of many, etc.

At the Hague, 29th November, 1650.

LETTER OF JOHANNES BOGAERT TO HANS BONTEMANTEL, 1655

Letter of Johannes Bogaert to Hans Bontemantel, 1655. In J. Franklin
Jameson, ed., Narratives of New Netherland, 1609-1664 (Original
Narratives of Early American History). NY: Charles Scribner's Sons,
1909.

INTRODUCTION

THE chief military exploit of Director Stuyvesant was the conquest in
1655 of the Swedish settlements on the Delaware River. New Sweden had
been founded in 1638 by a party of settlers under Peter Minuit, sent out
by the Swedish South C