CONTENTS
LETTER OF REVEREND JONAS MICHAELIUS, 1628.
"JOURNAL OF NEW NETHERLAND" 1647
BY WHOM AND HOW NEW NETHERLAND WAS PEOPLED.
THE CAUSES OF THE NEW NETHERLAND WAR AND THE SEQUEL THEREOF.
THE REPRESENTATION OF NEW NETHERLAND, 1650
Of the Right of the Netherlanders to the Fresh River.
Of the South River and the Boundaries there.
Of the South Bay and South River.
Of the Situation and Goodness of the Waters.
Of the Reasons and Causes why and how New Netherland is so Decayed.
The Administration of Director Kieft in Particular.
The Administration of Director Stuyvesant in Particular
In what Manner New Netherland should be Redressed.
ANSWER TO THE REPRESENTATION OF NEW NETHERLAND, 1650
LETTER OF JOHANNES BOGAERT TO HANS BONTEMANTEL, 1655
LETTERS OF THE DUTCH MINISTERS TO THE CLASSIS OF AMSTERDAM, 1655-1664
Reference material and source. Michaelius, Reverend Jonas. "Letter of Reverend Jonas Michaelius, 1628." In J. Franklin Jameson, ed., Narratives of New Netherland, 1609-1664 (Original Narratives of Early American History). NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909.
THE established church in the United Netherlands was the Reformed Church. Its polity was that of Geneva or of Presbyterianism. The minister and ruling or lay elders of the local church formed its consistory, corresponding to the Scottish or American kirk session. The next higher power, administrative or judicial, resided in the classis, consisting of all the ministers in a given district and one elder from each parish therein, and corresponding to the presbytery. It had power to license and ordain, install and remove ministers. Above this body stood the provincial synod, and above that the