Bastiaen Jansz Krol (also ''Sebastia(e)n'' ''Jans(s)en'' ''Crol''
Crol, Bastiaen Janssen (1630): '' Contract of sale of land along the Hudson River from the Mahican Indians to Kiliaen van Rensselaer'' on Wikisource
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or ''Crull''; 1595,
Harlingen – 14 March 1674)
[A. Eekhof]
Bastiaen Jansz. Krol : krankenbezoeker, kommies en kommandeur van Nieuw-Nederland (1595-1645)
The Hague 1910. A 97 page biography in Dutch. was
Director of New Netherland
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from 1632 to 1633.
Early life
When he was 10, Krol's family moved from
Friesland
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to
Amsterdam
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[Birth certificate](_blank)
/ref> and in 1623 he lived on the Bloemgracht
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It connects the Prinsengracht with the Lijnbaansgracht and runs between and parallel to Nieuwe Leliestraat and Bloemstraat in the Amsterdam-Centrum district.
Th ...
. In that year he presented himself to church elders of the Dutch Reformed Church
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to be sent abroad as a "ziekentrooster" ("comforter of the sick").
New Netherland
On 25 January 1624 he sailed to New Netherland
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, where he arrived when Cornelius May just had become the first Director-General. In November 1624 he had returned to Amsterdam and made a report to the church elders, who gave him the right to perform baptisms and weddings in the new colony. He probably sailed back to New Amsterdam
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in May or June 1625, prior to the arrival of Peter Minuit
Peter Minuit (between 1580 and 1585 – August 5, 1638) was a Wallonian merchant from Tournai, in present-day Belgium. He was the 3rd Director of the Dutch North American colony of New Netherland from 1626 until 1631, and 3rd Governor of New N ...
the next year.[
Bastiaen Krol is most frequently remembered for arranging the purchase of the domain of ]Rensselaerswyck
The Manor of Rensselaerswyck, Manor Rensselaerswyck, Van Rensselaer Manor, or just simply Rensselaerswyck ( nl, Rensselaerswijck ), was the name of a colonial estate—specifically, a Dutch patroonship and later an English manor—owned by the va ...
in 1630.
Van Rensselaer, Kiliaen (1630): '' Instructions to Bastiaen Jansz Krol from Kiliaen van Rensselaer (January 10, 1630)'' on Wikisource
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Kiliaen van Rensselaer was one of the first to ask for a grant of land. He received a tract of country to the north and south of Fort Orange
Fort Orange ( nl, Fort Oranje) was the first permanent Dutch settlement in New Netherland; the present-day city of Albany, New York developed at this site. It was built in 1624 as a replacement for Fort Nassau, which had been built on nearb ...
, but not including that trading-post,[ which, like the island of ]Manhattan
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, remained under the control of the Dutch West India Company
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. By virtue of this grant and later purchases, van Rensselaer acquired a tract comprising what are now the counties of Albany and Rensselaer with part of Columbia in the state of New York
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Before and after his post as Director-General, Krol was commander of Fort Orange
Fort Orange ( nl, Fort Oranje) was the first permanent Dutch settlement in New Netherland; the present-day city of Albany, New York developed at this site. It was built in 1624 as a replacement for Fort Nassau, which had been built on nearb ...
. He returned to the Netherlands at least two more times. Between 1638 and 1643 he lived in New Netherland, but the last records of him are from September 1645 in "Old" Amsterdam.[
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Personal life
In 1615, he married Annetje Cristoffels in Amsterdam
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.
See also
* Colonial America
The colonial history of the United States covers the history of European colonization of North America from the early 17th century until the incorporation of the Thirteen Colonies into the United States after the Revolutionary War. In the ...
* Dutch colonization of the Americas
The Netherlands began its colonization of the Americas with the establishment of trading posts and plantations, which preceded the much wider known colonization activities of the Dutch East Indies, Dutch in Asia. While the first Dutch fort in Asia ...
* Dutch Empire
* List of colonial governors of New Jersey
The territory which would later become the state of New Jersey was settled by Dutch and Swedish colonists in the early seventeenth century. In 1664, at the onset of the Second Anglo-Dutch War, English forces under Richard Nicolls ousted the Du ...
* List of colonial governors of New York
The territory which would later become the state of New York was settled by European colonists as part of the New Netherland colony (parts of present-day New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Delaware) under the command of the Dutch West India ...
References
;Notes
Further reading
* William Elliot Griffis
William Elliot Griffis (September 17, 1843 – February 5, 1928) was an American orientalist, Congregational minister, lecturer, and prolific author.Brown, John Howard. (1904)."Griffis, William Elliot,"''The Twentieth Century Biographical Diction ...
''The Story of New Netherland. The Dutch In America'' (Chapter VI. The Riverside Press. Cambridge. 1909)
* Allen Johnson, Ed. ''Dutch and English on the Hudson'' (Chapter IV . New Haven: Yale University Press. 1919)
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