Career
On 25 January 1624 he sailed to New Netherland, where he arrived when Cornelius May just had become the first Director-General. He probably sailed back to New Amsterdam in May or June 1625, prior to the arrival of Peter Minuit the next year. Bastiaen 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 New York
Before and after his post as Director-General, Krol was commander of Fort Orange. He returned to the Netherlands at least two more times.
Between 1638 and 1643 he lived in New Netherland, but the last records of him are from September 1645 in "Old" Amsterdam.
