"Martin Cregier was a major player in New Amsterdam: fire-warden, burgomaster, orphan-master, treasurer and captain-lieutenant of the West India Company, he filled virtually every civic office of the burgeoning trading post. In January 1657, when Pieter Stuyvesant created the “great burgherright,” Cregier wasted no time in securing the right to continue holding office—at a cost of 50 guilders. Thus, in 1660, when the Castello Plan was being mapped, we find Burgomaster Cregier signing off on a third, 151-plank bridge to span the canal. He also employed an African-American servant who, unfortunately, burned his new home on Heere Straet to the ground. Cregier promptly rebuilt." (Stokes, Vs. 2&4)

See the translation of his journal  of the war with the Esopus Indians from 1663 below.