 Once he was fined for housing an English Quaker at his home on Bridge Street, as they were excluded as Dissenters from the English colony; the man was there to repair a Dutch church.Van Salee appeared to be on good terms with his neighbor Lady Deborah Moody, the founder of Gravesend.John Edwin Stillwell wrote that Van Salee had disputes with her husband Sir Henry Moody, but he had died in England.