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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]
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.
The 1954 unveiling of a stained-glass depiction of Peter Stuyvesant in Butler Library at Columbia University. It commemorated the 300th anniversary of the founding of New Amsterdam, though it was actually dedicated on its 329th anniversary according to the date on the Seal of New York City , or on the 301st anniversary of the city receiving ...
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 ...
The capitulation of Peter Stuyvesant in New Amsterdam (by Charles Hemstreet) On August 27, 1664, Richard Nicolls, the English commander, acting on instructions from England, delivered an ultimatum to the Hon. Mr. Stuyvesant, the current governor, demanding surrender at the old mill by Monday morning at eight o'clock. On September 8, Stuyvesant ...
The Peter Stuyvesant Monument is a memorial to Peter Stuyvesant and the establishment of settlement of Bergen, New Netherlands in 1660. It is located at Journal Square district of Jersey City, New Jersey. The statue of Stuyvesant by J. Massey Rhind was originally installed in 1913 at Bergen Square. The statue and pedestal were unceremoniously ...
Fort Christina, also called Fort Altena, was the first Swedish settlement in North America and the principal settlement of the New Sweden colony. Built in 1638 and named after Christina, Queen of Sweden, it was located approximately 1 mi (1.6 km) east of the present-day downtown Wilmington, Delaware, at the confluence of the Brandywine River and the Christina River, approximately 2 mi (3 km ...
It was brought under Dutch control in a military expedition led by Director-General of New Netherland Peter Stuyvesant in 1655. [2] In that year the government enacted regulations requiring settlers throughout the province to construct stockades [3] to which they could withdraw if attacked, the most extensive being at Wiltwyck. [4]