History of the state of New York, for the use of common schools, academies, normal and high schools, and other seminaries of instruction . e allowance to thecitizens of a voice in the municipal government. 21. Their memorial met with a favorable was ordered home, new regulations for the gov- ernment of the province were made, and its administrationconfided to new hands. On his outward voyage, the late Gov-ernor perished by shipwreck, leaving behind him a melancholyrecord of abused power and perverted opportunities of useful-ness. With him were two of the members of the Council,
History of the state of New York, for the use of common schools, academies, normal and high schools, and other seminaries of instruction . e allowance to thecitizens of a voice in the municipal government. 21. Their memorial met with a favorable was ordered home, new regulations for the gov- ernment of the province were made, and its administrationconfided to new hands. On his outward voyage, the late Gov-ernor perished by shipwreck, leaving behind him a melancholyrecord of abused power and perverted opportunities of useful-ness. With him were two of the members of the Council, un-der sentence of banishment by the new Director on chargespreferred by Kieft, and Dominie Bogardus, who was on his wayto answer similar charges preferred by the new Council. Thetwo former were rescued and subsequently returned with honorto the colony. Bogardus and eighty others, including the Gov-ernor, went down with the ill-fated vessel. Treaty of peace. — General thanks,^iving. — Reduced condition of the col-ony. — Arrival of reinforcements. — Excise tax. — Indignation of the citi-zens. — Recall and death of ^-^-Cvi .at Xew Amsterdam in 1656. 1647. CHAPTER of Peter Stutvest. 1. Peter Stuyvesaxt, the newly appointed Director, tookpossession of the government on the 11th of May, his arrival he was oieeted with a heartv and cor- dial reception by the citizens, to which he responded by recip-rocal professions of interest and regard. He had for several3^ears been in the Companys service as Director of their colonyat Cm\acoa, and was distingiiished for his energy and braver}^Having lost a leg in an attack on the Portuguese settlement atSt. Martins, he had been obliged to retm-n to Europe for sur-gical aid, whence, still retaining his former commission, he wassent to the charge of the Province of New Netherlands. 2. Immediately on his accession he organized a representativeCouncil of nine members from a list of eighteen presented
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