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The Salt Mountain) Was Ready to Sail CHAPTER TWELVE CONFRONTATIONS Challenges At the end of June 1632 De Soutbergh (The Salt Mountain) was ready to sail. But the ship did not set out from the roadstead at Texel until mid-August, and only on September 3 did it leave the Isle of Wight.1 It was a large vessel of 120 lasts (240 tons’ burden) with 20 guns, manned by more than 50 sailors and 100 soldiers. A few farm laborers sailed with them as well. Among the cabin guests were Bogardus and Van Twiller, and the merchant Hans Jorisz Honthom.2 As usual, the \ rst port of call was the Antilles. On November 25 the military transport reached St. Martin, which was still uninhabited but the site of a small fort built by the Dutch after their conquest of the island from the Spaniards two years earlier. The ship must have lain at anchor there for some time, long enough to capture a Spanish ship with a cargo of sugar—a reminder that the war was not yet over. But the rest of the voyage proved dif\ cult. Only in February or March did Manhattan appear on the horizon. It had been a dangerous journey. For more than ve months Dominie Bogardus had found himself in the inescapable company of the new commander Wouter van Twiller.3 He must therefore have come to know him well through the many ups and down of the voyage. They were about the same age—Bogardus 25 or 26, and Van Twiller 26—hardly older than Arent van Curler was on becoming commissioner of Rensselaerswijck (age 18), or Adriaen van der Donck on his appointment as schout there (age 21). These were 1 VRBM, 266 (April 23, 1634). 2 On the date of arrival and the passengers: J. de Laet, Iaerlyck Verhael van de ver- richtingen der Geoctroyeerde West-Indische Compagnie [1644] (4 vols., The Hague 1931–1937), III, 136; Van Cleaf Bachman, Peltries or plantations? The economic policies of the Dutch West India Company in New Netherland, 1623–1639 (Baltimore 1969), 130–131; H. van Schaick, ‘Showdown at Fort Orange’, in: De Halve Maen 65:3 (1992), 37–45, here 39. 3 On Van Twiller: Dictionary of American Biography XIX, 216; Jaap Jacobs, ‘A troubled man: Director Wouter van Twiller and the affairs of New Netherland in 1635’, in: New York History 85 (2004), 213–232. 414 chapter twelve young men without leadership experience, and the people in their charge were for months left to fend for themselves. Evert had been only a comforter of the sick, Wouter a lieutenant bailiff in Nijkerk and subsequently a clerk, a simple administrative of\ cial, in the West India House in Amsterdam. His appointment in New Netherland he owed to the WIC director Kiliaen van Rensselaer, his uncle. Van Twiller had already acquired a bad reputation on St. Martin. Troubles were soon brewing in New Amsterdam as well. Captain David de Vries, royally welcomed by Van Twiller as the patroon of Swanendael when he sailed into the harbor of New Amsterdam in the afternoon of April 16, had a low opinion of him right from the start, describing him in his journal as “this commander, a clerk whom they made a commander, a \ gure in their comedy.”4 When Van Twiller, his schout Notelman, and secretary Van Remundt appealed to the trade monopoly of the WIC in order to play cat and mouse with the patroon and his cargo, De Vries snapped at Van Remundt that he did not understand how the WIC could appoint men who had no administrative experience whatsoever, “such fools . who knew nothing but how to get drunk.”5 In his \ rst letter to his nephew as the new director, dated April 23, 1634, Rensselaer wrote at length about the problems and opportunities in New Netherland.6 The troubles in the colony he attributed to the secretary Jan van Remundt, who had the ear of De Vogelaer and the trade party in the WIC. Van Remundt had written to his wife that Van Twiller was not to be trusted; she had passed that on to De Vogelaer, and he in turn told Reverend Badius, delegate for Indies Affairs. It was therefore of utmost importance that the new director immediately make an ally of the minister, the moral authority in the colony. “If Your Honor could win over the minister [Bogardus], I believe that he has credit with Vogelaer and his group, and if he could understand that the secretary [Van Remundt] acted disloyally, the situation would be placed on a completely new footing.” Was Rensselaer perhaps overestimating the power of the minister here? It would soon become evident which alliances really counted. Rensselaer’s letter in any case reveals the network around Bogardus. Under separate cover Badius sent a letter with instructions for Bogardus. Rensselaer from his side 4 De Vries, Historiael, 113 (NNN, 187). 5 De Vries, Historiael, 116 (NNN, 191). 6 VRBM, 269 (April 23, 1634)..
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