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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New Amstel. (search)
person for a school-master, who should also read the Scriptures in public, and set the Psalms. The municipal government was the same as in Amsterdam. The colonists were not to be taxed for ten years, and regulations were made in respect to trade The States-General ratified all the arrangements, on condition that when there should be 200 inhabitants in the colony a church should be organized and a clergyman established there. There was a garrison of sixty soldiers sent out, under Captain Martin Crygier. Fort Kasimer was transferred to the new corporation, and in April, 1657, nearly 200 emigrants sailed for New Amstel. A government was formally organized on April 21, 1657 Shipwrecked Englishmen from Virginia, whom the Dutch had rescued from the Indians, became residents of New Amstel, and prosperity marked the settlement. In 1658 there was a goodly town of about 100 houses, and the population exceeded 600. The people, however, soon began to be discontented, and many deserted the