The Dutch Schools of New Netherland And Colonial New York
The Dutch Schools of New Netherland And Colonial New York
William Heard Kilpatrick
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3 Munsell's Annals of Albany, iv, 15. 4 N. Y. Col. Doc, xiv, 559. ^ Executive Council Minutes, i, 82 6 See pages 138, 160, 170. The salary here named is greater by 100 guilders than that paid at Flatbush same time (1671) for both services (see p. 168). THE SCHOOLS OF THE DUTCH VILLAGES. 123 sumption of like salary, like service is so strong, especially when taken in connection with the almost universal custom of combining the two offices, that it seems hardly possible to doubt that the ''reader..." or "clarke" at Beverwyck was also the schoolmaster, who thus was on the payroll of that town during the closing years of the Dutch regime as well as afterwards. Breuckelen (Brooklyn) had been settled but a very few years when in 1646 it was granted a charter. Its growth was, however, slow. It was 1655 before there was a church organization and resrular preaching services. In 1660, the town consisted of 31 householders and 134 people. It is 1661 before we hear of a school. On July 4 of that year the Breuckelen Court reported to the director general and council that they found it necessary that a court messenger be "occa- sionally employed in the \^lage of Breuckelen and all around where he may be needed, as well to serve summons, as also to conduct the service of the church, and to sing on Sundays; to take charge of the school, dig graves, etc.
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