Johannes Megapolensis

Megapolensis was born in Koendyck (Koedijk,N.Y. Education Department, Annual Report, 1907, p. 629 Netherlands in 1603. His father, also named Johannes, was a Protestant dominie or minister in Egmont-aan-Zee. The father Latinized the family name from the original van Mecelenburg. (Another source suggests the original name was von Grootstede.)Snow & Starna, 1996, p. 38 However, from his translations of the Van Rensselaer Bowier Manuscripts, A.J.F. van Laer suggests that Magapolensis was not the son, but the nephew of Johannes, Sr. and married the daughter of the latter's wife by her first marriage. Megapolensis studied Catholicism at Cologne but became disenchanted with its particular precepts and customs. At the objection of his family he became a Protestant clergyman at an early age. For this he was disinherited.Corwin, 1926, p. 362

In 1630 the younger Megapolensis married Mathilde Willems in the Netherlands.N.Y. Education Department, Annual Report, 1907, p. 157 note The couple had at least four children born there in the next twelve years. Their son Johannes became a surgeon working at Fort Orange.Fort Orange Records, 1654-1679, 2009, p. 34 In 1654, their daughter Hillegond married Cornelis van Ruyven, secretary to the colonial Council.

In 1629 Megapolensis entered the ministry and commenced conducting services at Wieringerwaard, and four years later at Sehoorel and Berge in the Classis of Alkmaar. In November, 1641, Domine Johannes Backerus introduced him to the Classis of Amsterdam with the idea that he was willing to pursue a pioneering effort as a minister in New Netherland at the patroon of Killiaen Van Renssear. Here he was introduced to Van Renselear on March 6, 1642, and signed a contract that committed him to the task for six years, at a salary of a thousand guilders for the first two years, with an increase thereafter. The contract also stipulated that he be provided with a free house with provisions of food. Megapolensis his wife and four children sailed for the New World on June 6, 1642. Upon their arrival at New Amsterdam they remained on Manhattan Island for a brief period where he was introduced to Reverend Everardus Bogardus, who was directed to extend a friendly welcome. By the following August they had settled in to their new home near Fort Orange.Corwin, 1926, pp. 362-363

In 1642 Megapolensis was hired by Kiliaen van Rensselaer, the Patroon of Rensselaerwyck, a vast estate encompassing much of what is now Albany and Rensselaer counties, to serve as minister to his territory in the Calvinist Dutch Reformed Church. Megapolensis and his family went to New Netherland, where he served in Rensselaerswyck and later Fort Orange until 1649.Wilson & Fiske (eds.), 1888, vol. IV, pp. 286-287 With its strategic location Fort Orange and its nearby settlements soon attracted many traders and Indians alike, however, because of the many different peoples and interests it was also the center of many conflicts.Meuwese, 2011, p. 257

At first the family lived in Greenbush, New York, before moving to Fort Orange (now the city of Albany).van der Hout, 2018, p. 44 Van Rensselae also needed someone he could trust to be his principle adviser and to keep him informed of the social and business activity in the manor.Rink,1994, p. 248 Megapolensis was given authority that extended further than matters of church and religion, and was appointed to act as the arbiter of all disputes arising between the chief official of the colony, Arent van Curler, and his subordinate, Adriaen van der Donck, and to see that the general patroon was dealt with in a fair and ethical manner. His decision was to stand uncontested until a review on matters conducted by van Rensselaer himself occurred.Zwierlein, 1910, p. 76 The contract was for six years. A disagreement arose between van Rensselaer and the Directors of the Dutch West India Company, the Directors maintaining that they alone had the authority to commission clergy for the colony. As the ship was about to sail, the parties resolved their differences, neither side conceding their prerogatives. When it became known that Van Rensselaer planned to erect a church upriver at Rensselaerswyck, Governor Kieft hastened his plans to rebuild the church in Fort Amsterdam, where Megapolensis would later serve.Frijhoff, 2007, p. 460Van Rensselaer, 1909, v. 1, p. 202, v. 1, p. 202

For five years Megapolensis held services in the patroon's mill house on the east side of the Hudson River.{{efn|During the 17th and 18th centuries the Hudson River was commonly referred to as the North River, while the Delaware River was referred to as the South River.Fiske, 1890, v. 1, pp. 105-106}} In 1647 he was afforded the use of an old warehouse on the west side of the river, which had been donated by the West India Company, which put his services closer to the general population of Rensselaerswyck Manor and Fort Orange. The warehouse was converted to include a pulpit, nine pews and special benches for the Elders and Deacons. For nearly seven years Megapolensis and his successor Gideon Schaats held Sunday services in the warehouse, but with the spring floods coming from the river every year, the foundation began to give way and the warehouse eventually had to be abandoned.

During this period, Megapolensis served as missionary to the Mohawk people, and is believed to be the first Protestant missionary to Native Americans in North America. The Mohawk territory was west of Fort Orange in the Mohawk River valley but extending up to the St. Lawrence River and down to the Delaware River, with other territories used for hunting. During the summer trading season, Mohawks frequently spent the night in Dutch houses, including the Dominie's.Meuwese, 2011, p. 262

He became fluent in the Mohawk language{{efn|The Indians possessed a written language but it was in the form of hieroglyphics.Wilson, 1892, v. 1, p. 54}} and recorded many details about the Mohawk people and their culture. He described their language as being very difficult to learn. In his endeavor to learn the language and compile a vocabulary he frequently asked the Mohawk how they referred to various things and ideas.van der Sijs, 2009, p. 287 From his letters home, his friends in the Netherlands compiled A Short Account of the Mohawk Indians, their Country, Language, Figure, Costume, Religion, and Government, publishing it in North Holland in 1644. This was apparently done without his knowledge or permission. The account was reprinted by Joost Hartgers in 1651 in the Netherlands. The first English translation by Ebenezer Hazard was printed by him in 1792 in Philadelphia, with a revised translation by Brodhead in 1857. Another version translated by A. Clinton Crowell of Brown University was printed in 1909 by Jameson in the United States.

In his letters, Megapolensis had compared the land of Rensselaerwyck to that of Germany and described the rich abundance of game, birds and other wildlife. Megapolensis described Mohawk dress, marriage customs and culture. He characterized the Mohawk ritual torture of captives as cruel, but noted that they seldom killed people in their culture, despite their lack of laws and authorities as he understood them. He contrasted that with the much higher rate of murders in his home country of the Netherlands.Snow, Starna & Ghering, 1996, p. 46

Megapolensis is widely noted for assisting French Catholic missionary Isaac Jogues escape captivity, when he was being held and tortured by the Mohawk Indians. They were hostile to Jogues because of his association with the French, who had made attacks against Mohawk villages. In the autumn of 1642, Jogues was captured by the Mohawk and brought to their village of Ossernenon and subjected to prolonged torture. Hearing of this, Arent van Curler, commissary of Rensselaerwyck, visited the "first castle" of the Mohawks and attempted to ransom Jogues, but without success as the Mohawk were not inclined to release him at that time. About a year later, the Mohawk were persuaded to bring the priest with them when they came to Beverwijck to trade. Once there, Van Curler helped Jogues to escape. The dominie helped conceal the priest until a deal could be reached and the Frenchman put on a ship to take him downriver. Pastor Megapolensis befriended Jogues and accompanied him to New Amsterdam, where Jogues stayed with the pastor while waiting for a ship to take him to France.Denner, 2011{{efn|The following year French Jesuit François-Joseph Bressani, also captured and severely tortured by Mohawk Indians, was ransomed by Dutch traders.Zwierlein, 1910, pp.283-284}} In a letter of September 28, 1658, to the Classis of Amsterdam, Megapolensis wrote of the gruesome ordeal that had befallen Jogues, and another French missionary, François-Joseph Bressani, at the hands of the Mohawk. He also describes other encounters involving relations between the French and the Mohawk.Jameson, 1909, pp. 403-405

At the conclusion of his term of ministry at Fort Orange, Megapolensis planned to return to Holland, but was asked by Pieter Stuyvesant to become chief minister of the Dutch church in New Amsterdam. The dominie was initially reluctant and had to be persuaded with "friendly force".Jacobs, 2009, p. 147 By the time he decided to stay, his wife had already sailed and returned to New Amsterdam in 1650.Collections of the New York Historical Society, 1857, v. viii, p. 142 As dominie in New Amsterdam, Megapolensis was also responsible for mission stations in Bergen, New Jersey, the village of Haarlem, and occasionally in Brooklyn. In 1652, the Amsterdam classis sent Samuel Drisius, who had served in, but fled from London, to assist Megapolensis. In 1656 Megapolensis purchased land in the city from Abraham Isaacsen Verplanck.Deed, Verplanck to Megapolensis, 1656, p.71Zwierlein, 1910, p. 90 That same year Lutherans in New Netherland petitioned for permission for public worship. This was opposed both by the authorities in the colony as well as in Amsterdam as it was viewed as reducing the Reformed congregation. The Lutherans wrote the Lutheran consistory in Amsterdam to send a good, God-fearing preacher, "...since among the Reformed here there is one who formerly was a Jesuit and on that account is very politic and disputatious.".Jacobs, 2009, p. 164 By this they meant Dominie Megapolensis. They also charged that the baptismal liturgy used was too similar to "the Papal church".

On March 18, 1655, he sent a letter to the Classis at Amsterdam, noting, “Last summer some Jews came here from Holland in order to trade... they came several times to my house, weeping and bemoaning their misery. If I directed them to the Jewish merchants, they said they would not even lend them a few stivers”. Megapolensis further argued that the followers of the “unrighteous Mammon” aimed to get possession of Christian property and to outdo other merchants by drawing all trade toward themselves. These “godless rascals, who are of no benefit to the country, but look at everything for their own profit, may be sent away from here.”{{Cite journal|last=Hershkowitz|first=Leo|date=2005|title=By Chance or Choice: Jews in New Amsterdam 1654|url=https://sites.americanjewisharchives.org/publications/journal/PDF/2005_57_01_02_hershkowitz.pdf|journal=American Jewish Archives|volume=57|page=2}}

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After Stuyvesant's departure in July from his failed mission in the West Indies he returned to Manhattan and found a fleet and crews totaling seven-hundred men waiting for him in the harbor, where he promptly received orders to move on the Swedes at Fort Casimir and other objectives in the disputed territory along the Delaware River. On August 25 Megapolensis arranged for a day of fasting and prayer for the successful completion of the coming expedition. On the first Sunday of September, Megapolensis held services at Fort Amsterdam, just prior to the departure of the fleet on its mission. Megapolensis accompanied Peter Stuyvesant, who was commander of a fleet. Upon the arrival of the fleet the modest garrison at Fort Casimir immediately discovered that it was no match against Stuyvesant's force. Subsequently a flag of truce was sent to the fort with demands of its surrender, which after some protest, occurred without any bloodshed, after which the commander of the fort boarded Stuyvesant's ship and signed the terms of surrender. On the following Sunday Megapolensis held services for the crews and any Swede who wished to attend.Lamb & Harrison, 1877, pp. 175-176Jones, 1903, p. 111

By 1656 there was a growing number of Swedish and German Lutherans in New Amsterdam, who, instead of attending Megapolensis' services, held their own services in various private homes.Fiske, 1899, v.1, pp.231-232 The congregation of the Dutch Reformed Church, and Peter Stuyvesant in particular, were opposed at the prospect of new religions establishing themselves in New Nehterland. Stuyvesant made concerted efforts to thwart any inroads made by the Quakers, Lutherans, French Jesuits and Jews to establish themselves in the Dutch Colony. In 1658, Reverend Megapolensis continued to lament the inroads that various other religious orders were making in the colony, fearing that it would create religious discord and division among the people of the colony.Carney, 2004, pp. 311Brodhead, 1853, v.1, p.645 Of the Quakes he said, "The raving Quakers have not settled down, but continue to disturb the peace of the province by their wanderings and outcries."Corwin, 1926, p. 367 At this time French Jesuit Simon Le Moyne journeyed from Ossernenon to Fort Orange and then to New Amsterdam to attend to the few Catholics residing there as well as some French sailors who had recently arrived in port with a prize ship.Croswell, 1902, v.xiv, p. 404 While there, he paid a call on Megapolensis to thank him for his kindness to Jogues.Pouliot, 1966, p. 462 Le Moyne, like Megapolensis, had become religiously involved with the Hurons and Iroquois, and subsequently he and Le Moyne, regardless of religious differences, formed a close friendship.

In 1664 after serving at Rensselaerswyck Manor for six years, Megapolenssis arrived at Fort Amsterdam from.Van Rensselaer, 1909, v. 1, p. 202 His arrival at Fort Amsterdam was subsequent to his assisting French missionary, Isaac Jogues, in his escape from the Mohawks.Brodhead, 1853, v. 1, p. 373 His wife had already departed for Holland some weeks before. Reverend Backerus had retired over political indifference with Stuyvesant and returned to Holland and subsequently the colony was in need for another minister.New York Historical Society, collections, 1857, p. 142 With children also in need of baptism and religious instruction, Megapolensis was persuaded by Stuyvesant to remain in Manhattan, to which the former consented.Brodhead, 1853, v. 1, p. 508Wilson, 1893, v.1, p.270 When an overwhelming English fleet arrived that year, Megapolensis and his son Samuel, a physician as well as minister, were among the advisers counseling Stuyvesant, to surrender New Amsterdam to the English, who ultimately took control of the Dutch colony.Collections of the NY Historical Society, 1841, p. 391Shorto, 2004, p. 298 The West India Company would later blame the capitulation on councilors and clergymen.."...desirous of saving their houses which were next to the fort."Balmer, 2002, p.6 Susanah Shaw Romney says that his daughter Hillegond van Ruyven and Lydia de Meyer crossed enemy lines to Long Island to conduct back-door negotiations with the English. Shortly after their return, "...a council of residents and colonial leaders presented Stuyvesant with English terms, and he finally empowered a group of Amsterdammers to negotiate the peaceful handover."Rommney, 2014, p. 291

Staying in New York, as it was renamed by the English, the minister helped establish the rights of the Reformed Church under English rule. His role in the surrender may have had repercussions, as on two separate occasions years later, prominent Dutch citizens testified under oath to his loyalty to the West India Company. Some accounts say that Megapolensis returned to Holland a few years later in 1668, where he died. According to Thomas DeWitt, it was his son Samuel, associate pastor at New Amsterdam, who returned to Holland.Sprague (ed.), 1857, v. ix, p. 1

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