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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 is a brand of cigarettes currently owned by British American Tobacco and manufactured by the American Cigarette Company. In Australia and New Zealand , the brand is manufactured by Imperial Tobacco .
Cover of the burial vault of Peter Stuyvesant. Charles Anthon – scholar of the classics; Joseph S. Brasuell - Lower East Side community leader who served as warden and vestry member of the Church; John C. Colt – convicted murderer and brother of Samuel Colt – of Colt Revolver fame – was interred in 1842 after his suicide in The Tombs ...
In June 1651, the Director-General of New Netherland, Peter Stuyvesant, marched overland with 120 soldiers to Fort Nassau while several armed ships sailed from New Amsterdam to the Delaware River. Stuyvesant took no direct action against the Swedes, but ordered Fort Nassau dismantled and a new fort constructed on the west side of the river a ...
Portrait of Gov. Peter Stuyvesant, attributed to Hendrick Couturier, c. 1660 Portrait of Peter Stuyvesant (1727–1805) by Gilbert Stuart, c. 1793 –1795. Gov. Stuyvesant's house, erected 1658, afterwards called The Whitehall Augustus and Anne Van Horne Stuyvesant's home at 2 East 79th Street Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's statue of Peter Stuyvesant in the western half of Stuyvesant Square ...
His great-grandfather, Peter Stuyvesant. Stuyvesant was born in New York City on October 13, 1727. He was one of four sons born to Peter Gerard Stuyvesant (1691–1777), who was prominent in the civil affairs of New York and served as a magistrate for over thirty years, and Judith (née Bayard) Stuyvesant (b. 1685), who married in 1720. [1]
Governor Pieter Stuyvesant of Curaçao sent five large Dutch ships, a pink, and two tenders on a campaign to reconquer the former WIC base of Sint Maarten.After pausing at Saint Kitts to recruit English and French volunteers, he arrived off the eastern shores of Sint Maarten at dawn on 20 March, accompanied by a half-dozen merchantmen that continued further north; Stuyvesant's squadron veered ...
Stuyvesant Farm, also known as the Great Bowery, was the estate of Peter Stuyvesant, the last Dutch director-general of the colony of New Netherland, as well as his predecessors and later his familial descendants.