File:Dutch New York (1909) (14765928405).jpg

Identifier: dutchnewyork01sing (find matches)
Title: Dutch New York
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Singleton, Esther, d. 1930
Subjects: Dutch Americans -- New York (State) New York New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs To 1775 New York (State) -- History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
us we four formedthe first consistory to superintend the building of thechurch. The Governor should furnish a few thousandguilders of the Companys money, and we would try toraise the remainder by subscription. In 1649, the Directors enemies complained that Kieft insisted that the Church should be located in theFort, the location being as suitable as a fifth wheel toa coach. The Church, which ought to belong to thepeople who paid for it, intercepts the south-east windfrom the grist-mill, and this is why there is frequentlya scarcity of bread in summer for want of grinding.In 1642, the new church was built. This was of stone,with a roof of oak shingles, a tower and a weather-cock, and a peaked roof. It was seventy feet long,fifty-two feet wide, and sixteen feet high, and on thefront was a stone tablet with the words: An. Dom. MDCXLII.W. Kieft Die. Gen. Heeft de Gemeente dese TempelDoen Bouwen (A. D. 1642. W. Kieft being Director General, hascaused the Congregation to build this Temple.)
Text Appearing After Image:
RELIGION 185 The bell bore the legend: Dulcior E. nostris tinnitibus resonat aer. P. Hemonyme fecit 1674. (The air resounds sweeter for our ringing. P. Hem-ony made me.) Bogardus was not an ideal pastor; he quarreled withVan Twiller, and his successor, Kieft, denouncing thelatter from the pulpit as a tyrant, and trying to stir upthe people against him. When summoned to answerfor his conduct before the authorities here, he defiedthem. Kieft charged him with habitual drunkenness,even at the communion table, and absented himself frompublic worship conducted by the turbulent priest. Forthis the Directors enemies bitterly denounced him asfollows: What religion could men expect to find in a person(Kieft) who from the 3d of January, 1644, to the nthof May, 1647, would never hear Gods word, nor partakeof the Christian sacraments, doing all he could to estrangefrom the Church all those who depended upon him. Hisungodly example was followed, in like manr.cr, by hisfiscal Cornells van der Hoycke

Note About Images