Back in Holland he became precentor in Zaandam, and in November 1649 he married Sara Abrahams Roschou in Amsterdam.
During his residence in the Dutch settlement, he owned farms at Amersfort and Maspeth, a house and lot on what is now Pearl Street, and another on Broadway.
Here they managed an orphanage and Steendam continued to publish poetry and to contribute to Dutch Indies literature until 1671.
In the late 19th century, Henry Cruse Murphy, when he U.S. Minister to the Netherlands and resident in The Hague, rediscovered the poems written by Steendam and other Dutch poets in New Amsterdam, and had them published with English translations in the same metre.
The titles of the two poems are Klacht van Nieuw-Amsterdam (published in Amsterdam in 1659; translated as: Complaint of New Amsterdam, in New Netherlands, to her Mother, of her Beginning, Growth, and Present Condition) and 't Lof van Nuw-Nederland (1661; The Praise of New Netherlands: Spurring Verses to the Lovers of the Colony and Brothership to be established on the South River of New Netherland by Pieter Corneliszoon Plockhoy van Ziereckzee" (published in 1661).