Literary New York . ry New York had no effect, and the friends wereforced to give it up and submit toa decision, in very quaint wording,the tenor of which was that it wasacknowledged that there was no lovebetween the two, and that the onlyrecommendation that could be madewas that the property should be di-vided equally and they go their sev-eral ways,—which they did. But theearlier readings of poetry had sownthe seed of still another at those readings, Anna, theyoungest daughter of the poet, hadsat by her fathers side, and youngHendrick Kip had sat by his fathersside, and about th
Literary New York . ry New York had no effect, and the friends wereforced to give it up and submit toa decision, in very quaint wording,the tenor of which was that it wasacknowledged that there was no lovebetween the two, and that the onlyrecommendation that could be madewas that the property should be di-vided equally and they go their sev-eral ways,—which they did. But theearlier readings of poetry had sownthe seed of still another at those readings, Anna, theyoungest daughter of the poet, hadsat by her fathers side, and youngHendrick Kip had sat by his fathersside, and about the time the commis-sion of friends was announcing itsfailure to patch up matters, Anna DcSille and Hendrick Kip, all undis-mayed by the bad example, had de-cided to sit side by side through theremainder of their lives. All this time De Sille was growing iS Writers of New Amsterdam more and more rich, when there camea yreat change. Of a sudden oneday the English ship sailed into thebay, and the English soldiers took. and the rule of the Dutch in New Am-sterdam had passed, and the Englishbecame governors of their provinceof New York, Then Stuyvesantwent to live in a little settlement hehad built up and called BouwerieVillage, which was far out on theBouwerie Road, and Nicasius DeSi lie settled down as a merchant,19 Literary New York and little more was heard of him asa poet. It was a simple enough thing torename the town and call It after thebrother of an English king, but thatmade but little change in the customsof the people. For many a long yearit was to remain the quaint, slow-going town it had been. Certainlyno English brain or hand added tothe literature of this time, and theonly bit of writing which survives isthe work of a Dutch minister. In the eighteenth year after thecoming of the English, when it hadcome to be 1682, Dominie Henrj-cus Sclyns came to New York fromHolland. He had lived four yearsin the town when it was New Amster-dam, and we have his own words for ittha
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