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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 177 (part 2)

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[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] But as this man is now dead, and some of his proceedings and acts are freely discussed by Jochem Pieterss Cuyter and Cornells Moiyn, we shall dispose of this point as curtly as we possibly can. Previous to Director Kieft's bringing the unnecessary war upon the country, unnei-cisary war o o J t J brought upon the his principal aim and object were to take good care of himself, and to leave """"u-y by Kiefi. behind him a great name, but without any expense either to himself or the Company; for he has never yet done anything remarkable for the country by which it was improved. With that view he considered the erection of a Church very necessary, being a public work, the rather as it was in contemplation at