History of the School of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church, in the City of New York, From 1633 to the Present Time
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54 HISTORY OF THE SCHOOL, CHAPTER III. FROM THE CAPITULATION, 1664, TO THE REVOLUTIONARY WAS., 1776; EMBRACING A PERIOD OF 112 YEARS. Although at the Capitulation of Few- Amsterdam, the government of the Dutch as a nation ceased, her people, her Church, her school still remained. By the articles of capi- tulation, 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."...* It is highly probable that the school of Van Hoboocken, on the Bouwery, was disbanded ; but Evert Pietersen con- tinued to teach as heretofore, residing near his school, in 1665, in De Brouwer Straat.f The ecclesiastical organization of the Dutch Keformed Church remaining intact, she still acknowledged the juris- diction of the Classis of Amsterdam. The school continued, as heretofore, under the direct supervision of the deacons ; and being now deprived of all aid from the treasury of the colonial government, its support wholly devolved upon the Consistory ; and the institution had such strong hold on the affections of the Dutch people, that they could not and would not relinquish their jurisdiction over it, even when efforts * Vide Art.
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