 Following numerous legal disputes, including with representatives of the Dutch Reformed Church, whose council reprimanded Van Salee and his wife for not behaving as "pious Christians", he was ordered to leave New Netherlands.But, after he appealed to the Dutch West India Company, Van Salee was allowed to settle on in what would become New Utrecht and Gravesend, Brooklyn, at the southwestern end of Long Island.He became one of the largest and most prominent landholders on the island.