[3] On 11 January 1632, just five years after he had entered Leyden University, he was ordained a regular minister of the Dutch Reformed church.

Soon after he was commissioned by the "Lords Directors of the Honorable West India Company of the United Provinces of the Netherlands," to minister to the spiritual needs of the colony at New Amsterdam.

[1] Bogardus died September 27, 1647, in the Princess Amelia shipwreck near Swansea, Wales, while en route to Amsterdam along with many of his congregants as well as his opponent Willem Kieft, himself.

The people of New Amsterdam mourned for their minister, but there was little sorrow felt for the Governor who had plunged the colony in war by his obstinate and cruel temper.

[6] Bogardus Place is located in the Washington Heights section of New York City borough of Manhattan (ZIP code 10040).