CHAPTEE   XI.
 

City Taxation. — The Swkdes. — The Long Island Ferry. — Thomas Pell. — Lady
Moody's Library.—The Gay Kepast.— First City Seal.— Christmas.—New
Year's. — The City Hall.—The First Church on Long Islaxd. —Dominie Polhe¬
mus. — The Expedition against the Swedes. —The Indian Horiioe. —Van Tien¬
hoven's Downfall. — The Lutheran Persecution. — City Progress.—Dominie
Drisius. — Burgher Rights. — Unique Laws. — The Quaker Persecution. —
Hodgson at the Wheelbarrow. — Stuyvesant's Interview with the Indian
Chiefs. — "Whitehall." —Stuyvesant's Country-Seat. — Indian Hostilities. —
Oliver Cromwell's Death.

THE burgomasters and schepens, even before their first year of service
had expired, found their duties so arduous, and involving so much
time and trouble, that they petitioned for salaries. Stuyvesant,
after mature deliberation, granted to each burgomaster one hundred
and forty dollars, and to each schepen one hundred dollars, per annum.
They sent in, at the same time, a double set of names from which he
might choose officers for the coming year. He, however, retained the
same men in office, except that he fiUed two vacancies in the board of
schepens by the appointment of Oloff Stevensen Van Cortlandt and
Jochem Pietersen Kuyter. The latter had been successful in the vindica¬
tion of his character, and was now in possession of his estate in Harlem,
and restored to all the rights and privileges of a feudal lord. He lived in
a house on the north side of Pearl Street, between Broad Street and Han¬
over Square. He was commissioned by the Amsterdam Chamber as city
sheriff, it having been found necessary, through the rapid increase of busi¬
ness, to separate the office from that of the province; but, unfortunately,
before the commission reached New Amsterdam, he had been murdered
by the Indians, while on a tour of exploration through the wilderness to
the North. The appointment was transferred to Jacques Cortelyou, an
educated Frenchman, who was acting as tutor to the sons of Hon. Cor¬
nelis Van Werckhoven.    He declined to accept it, because of the peculiar