Recruited to go to America, but arrested in Ilfracombe, Devon, England in 1636 for killing his master.
Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, Van Rensselaer Bowier Manuscripts: Being the Letters of Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, 1630-1643, and Other Documents Relating to the Colony of Rensselaerswyck (Albany, New York: University of the State of New York, 1908), 814.