Not he! He worked it for Wouter Van Twiller, as he worked everything else.

He eliminated the Indians by degrees, whether by strategy or force history does not say.

R.R.Wilson says it was "rum and warfare." Anyway, they departed to parts unknown and Van Twiller built a farm and started an immense tobacco plantation.

As the tobacco grew and flourished the place became known by the Dutch as the Bossen Bouwerie--the farm in the woods.

It was one of the very earliest white settlements on the whole island.