A vast tract of territory, with feudal rights and privileges, was offered to any man settling a colony of fifty persons.

The disputes which soon arose between these powerful vassals and the sovereign Company had for one effect the recall of Peter Minuit from his position of governor.

Never again was the unlucky colony to have so competent and worthy a head as this discarded elder of the church.

Nevertheless the scheme was not altogether a failure.
In 1633 arrived a new pastor, Everard Bogardus, in the same ship with a schoolmaster--the first in the colony--and the new governor, Van Twiller.

The governor was incompetent and corrupt, and the minister was faithful and plain-spoken; what could result but conflict?
During Van Twiller's five years of mismanagement, nevertheless, the church emerged from the mill-loft and was installed in a barn-like meeting-house of wood.