Peter Stuyvesant - Wikipedia
Peter Stuyvesant [note 1] (c. 1610 – August 1672) [1] [2] was a Dutch colonial administrator who served as the director-general of New Netherland from 1647 to 1664, when the colony was provisionally ceded to the Kingdom of England. [3]
Peter Stuyvesant | Biography & Facts | Britannica
Peter Stuyvesant (born c. 1592, Scherpenzeel, Friesland, Netherlands—died February 1672, near New York, New York [U.S.]) was a Dutch colonial governor who tried to resist the English seizure of New York. Stuyvesant was the son of a Calvinist minister.
Peter Stuyvesant - New Netherland Institute
Peter Stuyvesant, also known as Petrus Stuyvesant, is an important figure in the history of New York City [earlier New Amsterdam], New York State and New Netherland. His name is still commonly used, especially in New York State, for street names, school names, building names, etc.
Stuyvesant, Peter - Encyclopedia.com
2018年5月17日 · P eter Stuyvesant was the colorful and controversial director general of the Dutch colony of New Netherland (presentday New York State). During his seventeen years in office, he caused considerable unrest by imposing heavy taxes and passing laws that prohibited religious freedom.
Peter Stuyvesant (1612-1672): Peter Stuyvesant (1612-1672)
2023年7月9日 · The fourth and last Director-General of New Netherland was the somewhat notorious Peter Stuyvesant (c.1612-1672). A former soldier, he had served as governor of the Dutch Caribbean Island of Curacao, where he lost his right leg.
Petrus Stuyvesant - Museum of the City of New York
Petrus Stuyvesant is best known as New Netherland longest, most influential, and last Dutch governor, having served until the English overthrew the colony’s Dutch administration and renamed it New York in 1664.
Peter Stuyvesant 1592-1672 < Biographies < American History …
Peter Stuyvesant (also known as Pietrus Stuyvesant), the son of a clergyman of Friesland, was born in the Netherlands in 1592. Stuyvesant served in the Dutch Army before receiving his appointment as director-general of New Netherland in 1646.
Stuyvesant family - Wikipedia
Peter Stuyvesant, the son of a Calvinist minister, [4] and his family were large landowners in the northeastern portion of New Amsterdam arising from his period as the last Dutch Director-General of New Netherland. [6] Stuyvesant was known as: "a man of strong individuality, great firmness and remarkable foresight, he so impressed himself upon the affairs that the story of his life …
Pieter Stuyvesant biography. Last Governor-General of the Dutch ...
Peter Stuyvesant was the last governor-general of the Dutch colonies in North America, known as New Netherland, from 1647 to 1664. He was born to a Calvinist pastor in Friesland, and in 1632, he joined the Dutch West India Company.
Petrus Stuyvesant - NEW AMSTERDAM STORIES
Petrus Stuyvesant has been the victim of historical stereotypes that brand him as a peg-legged, inflexible, intolerant, autocratic ruler of New Netherland. To what extent do the episodes illustrated by these documents shed new light on Stuyvesant as both a man and a leader?
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