land to the said valley S. W. a little W. 165 rods, along the valley to the place of beginning 60 rods with a small point of land, containing altogether 19 morgens 341 rods, with express condition etc etc.

Done at Fort Amsterdam, the 11th of March 1647.

PATENT FOR LAND ON LONG ISLAND.

We, Willem Kieft, etc etc have given and granted to Volckert Eversen a piece of land behind the land of Jacus Bentyn on Long Island, stretching from the meadow or kil S. E. by E. 90 rods S. E. 135 rods, S. S. E. 36, in width in the woods W. S. W. 90 rods to a valley, W. N. W. 136 rods and along the valley almost N. 200 rods, including a meadow lying within this parcel of an area of 2 to 3 morgens, containing altogether 49 morgens 155 rods, with the express condition etc etc.

Done at Fort Amsterdam the 11th of March 1647.

PATENT FOR LAND ON LONG ISLAND (GREENPOINT).

We Willem Kieft etc etc have given and granted to Cornelis Willemsen a piece of land on the Kil of Mespachtes opposite Richard Brudnel, stretching in length from the hook 182 rods, towards the woods 100 rods, again to the hook or bend of the hook to near the land of Thomas Fiscock his brother-in-law, 90 rods, containing 22 morgens 136 rods with express condition etc etc. Done at Fort Amsterdam the 12th of March 1647.

PATENT FOR LAND ON LONG ISLAND (BROOKLYN).

We, Willem Kieft etc etc have given and granted to Cornelis van Tienhoven, Secretary here, a piece of land situate in the allotment of Breukelen, formerly called Marechkawick, on Long Island, of the same extent as it was surveyed by the surveyor Andries Hudde for Jan Aertsen of Utrecht according to his book; which Jan Aertsen having failed to improve his land pursuant to the laws, we have given his lot to the said Tienhoven, with express condition etc etc. Done at Fort Amsterdam, the 15th of March 1647.

PATENT FOR LAND ON LONG ISLAND (NEWTOWN).

We, Willem Kieft etc etc have given and granted to Jan Jansen from Ditmarsen a plantation lying South of Pieters the chimney sweep and stretching from a copse along said chimneysweep's land E. S. E. and S. E. by E. 135 rods to the meadow, along the meadow 117

rods, S. by E. and S. S. W. a little W. sixty rods, W. N. W. a little N. thirty-four rods, N. N. W. forty-five rods, N. N. W. a little W. fifty-seven rods, N. by W. forty-six rods, W. S. W. eightyfive rods, N. E. by E. one hundred and nineteen rods to the place of beginning with some points of land, containing twenty-nine morgens, three hundred and sixty-two rods with express condition etc etc.

Done at Fort Amsterdam, the 23d of March 1647.

PATENT FOR LAND ON LONG ISLAND (WILLIAMSBURGH).

We, Willem Kieft etc etc, have given and granted to Jan Pietersen from Amsterdam a small piece of land lying on Long Island, which comes out upon the river between Reyer Lambertsen and Clues the Norman, containing according to the survey four morgens, with the express condition, that he, Jan Pietersen Borsin, etc etc.

Done at Fort Amsterdam, the 29th of March 1647.

PATENT FOR LAND ON LONG ISLAND (BUSHWICK).

We, Willem Kieft etc etc. have given and granted to Hans Hansen a piece of land situate upon Long Island at the Kil of George Rapalje stretching from his house N. E. by E. to Lambert Huybertsen's plantation, then along the kil of Jan the Swede following the old marks to the Kil of Mespachtes along the copse, then it divides the land of Dirck Volckertsen, which he bought from Wilcock, from Henry Sattij's land containing two hundred morgens, with express condition etc etc.

Done at Fort Amsterdam, the 30th of March 1647.

PATENT FOR LAND ON LONG ISLAND.

We, Willem Kieft etc etc have given and granted to Jan Haes, who has married the widow of Edward Fiscock deceased, a piece of land lying on the western hook of Rechkewick on the East river, stretching from the land of Frerick Lubbertsen E. S. E. and S. E. by E. to the meadow eighty rods, and along the meadow N. E. one hundred and twenty-six rods with some curves and bends, further N. by E. forty-five rods, N. N. W. thirty rods, W. by N. eighty rods, W. and W. S. sixty-seven rods, along the land of Frerick Lubbertsen S. and S. by E. one hundred and thirtyfour rods containing thirty-eight morgens four hundred and eighty-five rods, with the express condition etc etc.

Done at Fort Amsterdam, the 2a of April 1647.

PATENT FOR LAND ON LONG ISLAND (WILLIAMSBURGH).

We, Willem Kieft etc etc have given and granted to Jan Forbus a piece of land lying on the kil of Dirck the Norman on the East river, formerly in the occupation of Claes Carstensen, George Baxter and David Andriesen containing sixty-five morgens, as may be seen by the marks, with the meadow thereto belonging; with the express condition etc etc.

Done at Fort Amsterdam, the 15 of May 1647.

SUMMONS TO THE REV. E. BOGARDUS TO APPEAR BEFORE THE COUNCIL AND ANSWER CHARGES AGAINST HIM, AND FURTHER PROCEEDINGS.

In the name of the Lord, Amen. Anno 1646 in New Netherland.

The Honble Director and Council to the Reverend Everardus Bogardus, minister here. Although we were informed of your proceedings in the time of the Hone Wouter van Twiller, the former Director, and were also warned to be on our guard, yet were we unwilling to pay any attention thereto, believing that no man who preached the Word of the Lord would so far forget himself, notwithstanding we have letters in your own hand, among others, one dated 17th June 1634, wherein you do not appear to be moved by the spirit of the Lord, but on the contrary by a feeling unbecoming heathens, let alone Christians, much less a preacher of the Gospel. You there berate your magistrate, placed over you by God, as a child of the Devil, an incarnate villain, whose buck goats are better than he, and promise him that you would so pitch into him from the pulpit on the following Sunday, that both you and his bulwarks would tremble. And many other such like insults, which we refrain from mentioning, out of the respect we entertain for that gentleman.

You have indulged no less in scattering abuse during our administration. Scarcely a person in the entire land have you spared; not even your own wife, or her sister, particularly when you were in good company and jolly. Still mixing up your human passion with the chain of truth, which has continued from time to time you associated with the greatest criminals in the country, taking their part and defending them. You refused to obey the order to administer the Sacrament of the Lord and did not dare to partake of it yourself. And in order that you may not plead ignorance, a few out of many instances shall be cited for you, as follows:

On the 25th of September 1639, having celebrated the Lord's supper, observing afterwards in the evening a bright fire in the Director's house, whilst you were at Jacob van Curler's, being thoroughly drunk, you grossly abused the Director and Jochim Pietersen, with whom you were angry, because the Director had asked something of you for said Jochim Pietersen which you refused. (See affidavit in our possession.)

Since that time many acts have been committed by you, which no clergyman would think of doing. In the hope that you would at least demean yourself in your office in a christianlike manner, we have overlooked those things until March 1643, when one Maryn Adriaensen came into the Director's room with predetermined purpose to murder him. He was prevented and put in irons. Taking up the criminal's cause, you drew up his writings and defended him. He, notwithstanding, was sent to Holland in chains against your will. Whereupon you fulminated terribly for about fourteen days and desecrated even the pulpit by your passion. In what manner you conducted yourself every evening during this time is known to your immediate neighbors. Finally, you made up friends with the Director, and things became quiet.

In the year 1644, one Laurens Cornelissen being here-a man who committed perjury; once openly took a false oath and was guilty of theft-he immediately found a patron in you, because he bespattered the Director with lies and you were daily making good cheer with him. In the summer of the same year, when minister Douthey administered the Lord's Supper in the morning, you came drunk into the pulpit in the afternoon; also on the Friday before Christmas of the same year, when you preached the sermon calling to repentance.

In the beginning of the year 1645, being at supper at the Fiscal's where you arrived drunk, you commenced as is your custom, to scold your deacons and the Secretary, abusing among the rest deacon Oloff Stevensen as a thief, although he did not utter an ill word against you; whereupon the Director, being present, suggested to you in a kind manner, that it was not the place to use such language. As you did not desist, the Director finally said, that when you were drunk, you did nothing but abuse, and that you had been drunk on Friday when you went into the pulpit; that it did not become a minister to lead such a life, and to give scandal to the worthy congregation.

Some days after, the Director not being able to attend church in consequence of indisposition, to wit on the 224 January 1645, you abused him violently from the pulpit, saying "What else are the greatest in the land but vessels of wrath and fountains of evil, etc. Men aim at nothing but to rob one another of his property, to dismiss, banish and transport." For this reason the Director absented himself from church, in order to avoid greater scandal; as he will maintain that he never coveted any man's property, or took it away, or acted unjustly, or banished any one who had not deserved three times severer punishment. Whomever he dismissed was discharged because such was his prerogative, and he will vindicate his act in the proper quarter. It is none of your business.

On the 21st March 1645, being at a wedding feast at Adam Brouwer's and pretty drunk, you commenced scolding the Fiscal and Secretary then present, censuring also the Director not a little, giving as your reason that he had called your wife a whore, though he said there that it was not true and that he never entertained such a thought, and it never could be proved. Wherefore on the 23rd March, we being moved by motives of mercy, and on account of the respect attached to your office instead of prosecuting you, sent you a Christian admonition under seal, which you twice refused to receive. (See Report of the Messenger.)

You administered the Lord's supper at Easter and Whitsuntide without partaking of it yourself, setting yourself as a partisan; assuming that the Director had sent the Yoncker and one Lottho, meaning Lyshet the midwife, to you in order to seek a reconciliation, but that you would think twice before making peace with him; using similiar language also to the Yoncker and Anthony de Hooges, as shall appear by credible witnesses. At the making of the peace, many words and means were used to break it off. Good effect was expected from the order which was sent to you to offer up prayers to the Lord, but instead of a prayer, people heard an invective, the tendency whereof was of dangerous consequences. Peace being

concluded with the Indians, an extract from the order of the Lords States was sent to your Reverence, to return thanks to God on the 6th of September therefor. Your Reverence preached well and gave a good sermon, but throughout not a word was uttered about the peace, and though the day was appointed specially for that purpose, you offered no thanks to God for it, as the other clergymen who dwell within our limits have done with great zeal. By this, people can estimate your disposition toward the Company, by whom you are paid, and the welfare of the country; which disposition is also manifested by favoring those who

* Adrian van der Donck.

have grossly defrauded and injured the Company; the conventicles and gatherings held and still daily continued in reference thereto.

On the 22 of December, you said publicly, in the course of the sermon on repentance, that you have frequently administered the Lord's supper, without partaking of it yourself, and wished that those who are the cause of the trouble were dismissed, and when families are visited, they cannot give a reason, why they absent themselves. Your bad tongue is, in our opinion, the sole cause, and your stiffneckedness, and those who encourage you in your evil course, the cause of its continuance. We know no one but only you who has refused to make peace. When you make a visitation you do not enquire the reason, or are unwilling to ask it. We hold that men are bound to give a reason for such absence if it be demanded.

On the 24th of the same month, you remarked in your sermon, that in Africa, in consequence of the excessive heat, different wild animals copulate together, whereby many monsters are generated. But in this temperate climate, you knew not, you said, whence these monsters of men proceeded. They are the mighty but they ought to be made unmighty, who have many fathers and place their trust in the arm of the flesh, and not in the Lord.

Children can tell to whom you here allude. These and many similar sermons which you have often preached, have obliged us to remain away from church.

Seeing that all this tends to the general ruin of the land, both in ecclesiastical and civil matters, to the disparagement of authority which your Reverence is bound by duty and also by your oath to support; to the stirring up of mutiny among the people, already split into factions; to schism and contention in the church, created by novel and unheard of customs, and to rendering us contemptible in the eyes of our neighbors, which things cannot be tolerated, when justice is accustomed to be maintained, therefore our bounden duty obliges us to provide therein, and by virtue of our commission from their High Mightinesses, his Highness, and the Lords Directors of the Incorporated West India Company, to proceed against you formally; and in order that the same may be done more regularly, we have commanded that a copy of this our Acte be delivered to you, to be answered in fourteen days, protesting that your Reverence shall be treated in as Christian and civil a manner as our conscience and the welfare of Church and State will permit. The 24 of January 1646.

1646, 4th of January.

We have seen the writing dated third January last sent us by Everardus Bogardus through the messenger, and found it futile and absurd and not an answer to the extract dated 2d of Jan' 1646, sent to said Bogardus. It is therefore ordered that said Bogardus shall give a pertinent answer to the contents of said extract, either affirmatively or negatively within the time therein mentioned, on pain of being prosecuted in court as a rebel and contumacious.

Thus done in Council at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland on the above date.

On the 18th of January.

We have seen a certain writing of Dom Bogardus sent us by the messenger, full of vain subterfuge, calumny, insult and profanation of God's holy word, to the disparagement of justice and his lawful superior, which he uses, as is his custom, to vent his passion and to cover up the truth, and is in no wise an answer to our charges and order sent him on the 2 and 4th of January last. Therefore we order him a second time to answer it formally within 14 days either negatively or affirmatively on pain as above.