m 0-t *4. r\,-[\ 1% rt* "Yorfe uan fer Syden dat is van de oost Kant [New York from the East]" pen and sepia ink drawing by Jasper Danckaerts, 167Q. LONG ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY. from office in 1677 "on account of his bad and offensive life!'33 Peace was worth more, it seemed, than personal favors. The Reformed church was the most persistent vehicle of expression for Dutch tension on a provincial level. In 1676, Stephanus Van Cortlandt and Philip Schuyler sided with Andros and Van Rensselaer. Just as Andros had convinced Dutch merchants and politicians that, despite the petition incident of 1675, he would tolerate and even promote 88Arthur James Weise, The History of Albany, New York (Albany, 1884), 164-65; Leder, "The Unorthodox Domine" 169-72; Doc. Hist. N.Y., III, 527-30. Van Zuuren to Classis of Amsterdam, September 20,1677, Ecc. Rec, I, 702.