Albert Burgh

In the same year, after Johan van Oldenbarnevelts Fall and beheading, the Calvinist Burgh was appointed councilor by Reynier Pauw to replace the pro-Remonstrant Jacob Dircksz de Graeff in the Amsterdam city council.

[1] He changed his view within a couple of years, paying a fine for the famous Dutch poet Vondel.

Around 1624 Burgh became one of the managers of the Dutch West India Company and owned land on the New Jersey side opposite the river Delaware.

[2] In 1632 Albert Burgh sold his land in Rensselaerswyck, Albany, to the main investor Kiliaen van Rensselaer.

[3] At the solemn entry of Maria de Medici into Amsterdam in 1638, he and the burgomaster and regents, Andries Bicker, Pieter Hasselaer, Antonie Oetgens van Waveren and Abraham Boom welcomed her in the name of the city's government.