西印度公司得到的任务是建立殖民地——但是他们希望以一种尽可能廉价地方式完成任务。
The West India Company was committed to building up the colony — but wanted to do so as cheaply as possible.
西印度公司于是指派彼得·史蒂文森（Peter Stuyvesant，STY-ve-sent）为新任的殖民地总督。
The West India Company appointed Peter Stuyvesant (STY-ve-sent) as the new director general. Stuyvesant was the ideal candidate for the job of taming a wild frontier town.
直到 1638 年，西印度公司派一位叫做亚当罗兰森的学者来建立新阿姆斯特丹的第一所学校，当地的荷兰教堂才开始教育当地的孩子。
The local Dutch Reformed church educated the local children until 1638, when the company sent a schoolmaster named Adam Roelantsen to open the first school in New Amsterdam.
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