The colonists, generally religiously disposed, were greatly troubled, being threatened with a total loss of the gospel ministry.

By the earnest solicitation of Stuyvesant, he consented to remain at Manhattan, where he was formally installed as pastor of the church, upon a salary of twelve hundred guilders, which was about four hundred dollars.

At the same time the energetic governor manifested his interest in education by writing earnestly to Amsterdam, urging that a pious, well-qualified and diligent schoolmaster might be sent out.

"Nothing," he added, "is of greater importance than the right, early instruction of youth." The governor was sorely annoyed by the action of the States-General, reversing his sentence against Melyn and Kuyter.

He wrote that he should obey their decision, but that he would rather never have received their commission as governor, than to have had his authority lowered in the eyes of his neighbors and friends.
The three commissioners, bearing the memorial of the Nine Men, reached Holland in safety.