Resolved Waldron was Peter Stuyvesant's trusted right arm. It was Waldron who he sent to arrest John Bowne in old Flushing Queens for his Quaker wife's crime of preaching in her house!

Subsequent to the English take over of the Dutch New Netherland Colony in l664, the fresh officials for the newly named, City of New York, continued to rely on Resolved Waldron, the Dutch Sheriff who during the previous administration had been the strong arm of Peter Stuyesant. Very early into their new administration, during June of 1665, the English officials sent a sweet invitation to New Harlem, where the Schout, Resolved Waldron, and the Schepens were living, and a place in those times about three hours away from the tip of Manhattan. After residing for a decade near what is now Wall Street and Broadway, Waldron had moved his family to the quieter country life. (Waldron is remembered as the Sheriff who arrested the English merchant, John Bowne, in Flushing, New York-the case considered the first for Religious Freedom in America) And so these prior citizens of New Amsterdam appeared before the new administrators of New York never suspecting what was to come. As they came into the room, Resolved Waldron was notified that he is elected Constable of New Harlem. I wonder if Waldron was surprised. Although he always held that he was a Dutchman, born in Holland, married now many years to his second Dutch wife, Tennake Nagel, (Rebecca Hendricks first) he did indeed have an English name-well respected as his family roots held firm in English valor. Waldron immediately accepted and took the proper oath, while within the blink of an eye all his comrades, the magistrates who had come along with him were all dismissed. Waldron was instructed to look over the former magistrates and any others back home who he thought might do well in new positions that were opening up. Soon thereafter, Dan Tourner was made "under sheriff" at New Harlem and then President of the court there. According to the History of Harlem-this was how the Court of the Schout and Schepens was abolished. And this is how the Dutch sheriff, Resolved Waldron, came to be one of the first police in America when under English rule.