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"fROM~THK~'capiTULATION,    1664,    to   the   REVOLUTIONARY""wARr
1776;    EMBRACING    A    PERIOD    OF    112    YEARS.

Although at the Capitulation of New Amsterdam, the govern¬
ment of the Dutch as a nation ceased, her people, her Church,
her school still remained. By the articles of capitulation, the
Dutch had secured to them " the liberty of their consciences in
divine worship and church discipline, with all their accustomed
jurisdiction with respect to the poor and orphans." *

As no record has been found after the capitulation in 1664,
relative to the school of Van Hoboocken,' on the Governor's
Bouwery, the probability is that it was then closed ; but Pietersen
continued to teach as heretofore, residing near his school, in
1665, in De Bouwer Straat, now Stone Street, and continued
teaching for many subsequent years.f

From the Records of the Burgomasters' and Schepens'
Court, which was continued until Nov. 10, 1774, we extract the
following :

Sept. 19, 1665.—The petition of Mr. Evert Pietersen, Schoolmaster and
Precentor of this city, being read and considered, requesting that he may have
some proper fixed Salarium, as he was heretofore paid his wages by the Hon¬
orable Company, and has been continued in his employment from that time to
the present, is apostilled as followeth : Whereas order shall be shortly made
relative to the salary of the ministers of this city, under which the precentorship
also comes, proper order shall then be made herein likewise. J

May 8, 1666.—Captain Steynmets entering demands payment of a year's
rent of his house, hired to the city as a city school, due on the first of this
month, amounting to the sum of 260 florins. Petitioner is requested to wait yet
awhile, as there is at present no money in the chest. §

Feb. 16, 1668-9.—Evert Pietersen, Schoolmaster and Precentor requests
payment of his earned salary, and further allowance for his future services. ||

In an enumeration of " the best and most afHuent inhabitants
of this city," Feb. 19, 1674, is found the name of Evert Pietersen
(who resides on the south side of Brewer, now Stone Street), and
his property was valued at 2,000 florins. T

* Vide Art. of Capit. in full.    O'Call. N. N., ii, 532.

t Val. Man., 1850, p. 454. Val. Hist. N. Y., p. 120. Paulding's
N. Am., 109.                   X N- Am. Rec, vi. 73.                    § Ibid., 17S.

II N. Am. Rec, vi. 436.                  11 Hoi. Doc, li. 699.