According to John Romeyn Brodhead, Cornelius Jacobsen May was appointed as the first Director of the colony, with Adrian Joris as second in command. May hastened south to oversee construction of Fort Nassau on the South River to forestall French incursions.[6] Tienpont was left in command of Fort Orange[7][8][9] and was called its 'governor' in dispositions of an early settler taken in 1685 and 1688.[5][10]
Tienpont skippered the Meeuwken which arrived in port in May 1626.[2][15] Aboard was Peter Minuit, the new director of the nascent colony.[16] In 1637, Tienpont captained the ship Fågel Grip as part of the first expedition from Sweden to the Delaware Valley led by Minuit.[17][18]
^Jacobs, Jaap (April 11, 1989). "De Scheepvaart en handel van de Nederlandse Republiek op Nieuw- Nederland 1609-1675 (Shipping and trade of the Dutch Republic in New Netherland 1609-1675)" (in Dutch). Leiden: Rijksuniversiteit Leiden (master's thesis). {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
^ abcThis account, in which Tienpoint is referred to as the "governor" of the colony and commanding the settlement expedition, is derived from the Depositions of Catelina Trico (14 February 1685 and 17 October 1688) in O'Callaghan, E. B. Documentary History of the State of New York Arranged Under Direction of the Hon. Christopher Morgan, Secretary of State. 4 volumes (Albany, New York: Weed, Parsons & Co., 1849-1851) III:49-51.
^Andrews, Elisha Brown (1894), History of the United States (Complete), ISBN9781465555656, By this company were sent out Mey, as Director, to the Delaware or South River, and Teinpont, to the Hudson or North River. Four miles below Philadelphia Fort Nassau was erected and where Albany now stands was begun the trading-post called Fort Orange.
^Winsor, Justin. Narrative and Critical History of America. (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Company, 1884), 398; describes Tienpoint as the colony's Director of the Hudson River valley settlements while Mey was director to the South River, or Delaware River valley settlements.
