largest individual land owner in
the Province, acquiring succes-
sively Great Barn and Blackwell's
Islands in the East River, and yet
other tracts on Manhattan Island
and the mainland.

Ere long Dominie Bogardus
proved to be an unruly member
of the settlement, publicly rebuk-
ing the Governor for some appa-
rent laxity, and perhaps justly,
although naturally resented by
Van Twiller, after which the
preacher anathematized him from
the pulpit as ‘‘a child of the
Devil,” resulting in the Govern-
or’s being doubly incensed. It
ws served, however, to rouse the
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jiexact state of affairs, although,

  

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