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Bastiaen Jansz Krol (also ''Sebastia(e)n'' ''Jans(s)en'' ''Crol'' Crol, Bastiaen Janssen (1630): '' Contract of sale of land along the Hudson River from the Mahican Indians to Kiliaen van Rensselaer'' on
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 or ''Crull''; 1595, Harlingen – 14 March 1674)A. Eekhof
Bastiaen Jansz. Krol : krankenbezoeker, kommies en kommandeur van Nieuw-Nederland (1595-1645)
The Hague 1910. A 97 page biography in Dutch. was
Director of New Netherland This is a list of Directors, appointed by the Dutch West India Company, of the 17th century Dutch province of New Netherland (''Nieuw-Nederland'' in Dutch) in North America. Only the last, Peter Stuyvesant, held the title of Director General. A ...
from 1632 to 1633.


Early life

When he was 10, Krol's family moved from
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to
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Birth certificate
/ref> and in 1623 he lived on the Bloemgracht. In that year he presented himself to church elders of the
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to be sent abroad as a "ziekentrooster" ("comforter of the sick").


New Netherland

On 25 January 1624 he sailed to
New Netherland New Netherland () was a colony of the Dutch Republic located on the East Coast of what is now the United States. The claimed territories extended from the Delmarva Peninsula to Cape Cod. Settlements were established in what became the states ...
, where he arrived when Cornelius May just had become the first Director-General. In November 1624 he had returned to Amsterdam and made a report to the church elders, who gave him the right to perform baptisms and weddings in the new colony. He probably sailed back to
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in May or June 1625, prior to the arrival of
Peter Minuit Peter Minuit (French language, French: ''Pierre Minuit'', Dutch language, Dutch: ''Peter Minnewit''; 1580 – August 5, 1638) was a Walloons, Walloon merchant and politician who was the 3rd Director of New Netherland, Director of the Dutch Nort ...
the next year. Bastiaen Krol is most frequently remembered for arranging the purchase of the domain of Rensselaerswyck in 1630. Van Rensselaer, Kiliaen (1630): '' Instructions to Bastiaen Jansz Krol from Kiliaen van Rensselaer (January 10, 1630)'' on
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 Kiliaen van Rensselaer was one of the first to ask for a grant of land. He received a tract of country to the north and south of
Fort Orange Fort Orange () was the first permanent Dutch settlement in New Netherland; the present-day city and state capital Albany, New York developed near this site. It was built in 1624 as a replacement for Fort Nassau, which had been built on n ...
, but not including that trading-post, which, like the island of
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, remained under the control of the
Dutch West India Company The Dutch West India Company () was a Dutch chartered company that was founded in 1621 and went defunct in 1792. Among its founders were Reynier Pauw, Willem Usselincx (1567–1647), and Jessé de Forest (1576–1624). On 3 June 1621, it was gra ...
. By virtue of this grant and later purchases, van Rensselaer acquired a tract comprising what are now the counties of Albany and Rensselaer with part of Columbia in the state of New York. Before and after his post as Director-General, Krol was commander of
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. He returned to the Netherlands at least two more times. Between 1638 and 1643 he lived in New Netherland, but the last records of him are from September 1645 in "Old" Amsterdam.


Personal life

In 1615, he married Annetje Cristoffels in
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.


See also

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Colonial America The colonial history of the United States covers the period of European colonization of North America from the late 15th century until the unifying of the Thirteen British Colonies and creation of the United States in 1776, during the Re ...
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Dutch colonization of the Americas The Netherlands began its colonization of the Americas with the establishment of trading posts and plantations, which preceded the much wider known colonization activities of the Dutch in Asia. While the first Dutch fort in Asia was built in 16 ...
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Dutch Empire The Dutch colonial empire () comprised overseas territories and trading posts under some form of Dutch control from the early 17th to late 20th centuries, including those initially administered by Dutch chartered companies—primarily the Du ...
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List of colonial governors of New Jersey The territory which would later become the state of New Jersey was settled by Netherlands, Dutch and Sweden, Swedish Settler, colonists in the early seventeenth century. In 1664, at the onset of the Second Anglo-Dutch War, England, English force ...
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List of colonial governors of New York The territory which would later become the state of New York (state), New York was settled by European colonization of the Americas, European colonists as part of the New Netherland colony (parts of present-day New York, New Jersey, Connecticut a ...


References

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Further reading

* William Elliot Griffis ''The Story of New Netherland. The Dutch In America'' (Chapter VI. The Riverside Press. Cambridge. 1909) * Allen Johnson, Ed. ''Dutch and English on the Hudson'' (Chapter IV . New Haven: Yale University Press. 1919) {{DEFAULTSORT:Krol, Sebastiaen 1595 births 1640s deaths American people of Dutch descent People from colonial New York People from Harlingen, Netherlands Directors of New Netherland