Sebastiaen Jansen Krol

Sebastiaen Jansen Krol
4th Director-General of New Netherland
In office 1632–1633
Preceded by	Peter Minuit
Succeeded by	Wouter van Twiller

Sebastiaen Jansen Krol (Crol or Crull) was Director-General of New Netherland from 1632 to 1633.

Sebastian Krol is most frequently remembered for arranging the purchase of the domain of Rensselaerswyck in 1630. Kiliaen van Rensselaer was one of the first to ask for a grant of land. He received a tract of country to the north and south of Fort Orange, but not including that trading-post, which like the island of Manhattan remained under the control of the Dutch West India Company. By virtue of this grant and later purchases, Van Rensselaer acquired a tract comprising what are now the counties of Albany and Rensselaer with part of Columbia in the state of New York.

Captain Krol was comforter of the sick and commander of Fort Orange prior his post as Director-General. Krol came to America in 1626 with Peter Minuit and was an officer of the Dutch Reform Church in New Netherland since 1623. Krol is also noted to have introduced the cruller during his posting at Fort Orange.

References

• New Netherlands
• The Story of New Netherlands

Additional Reading

• William Elliot Griffis The Story of New Netherland. The Dutch In America (Chapter VI. The Riverside Press. Cambridge. 1909)
• Allen Johnson, Ed. Dutch and English on the Hudson (Chapter IV . New Haven: Yale University Press. 1919)