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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]
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 ...
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 .
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.
This is a list of Directors, appointed by the Dutch West India Company, of the 17th century Dutch province of New Netherland (Nieuw-Nederland in Dutch) in North America.Only the last, Peter Stuyvesant, held the title of Director General.
The director-general of New Netherland, Peter Stuyvesant, sought to turn them away but was ultimately overruled by the directors of the Dutch West India Company in Amsterdam. [32] Asser Levy , an Ashkenazi Jew who was one of the 23 refugees, eventually prospered and in 1661 became the first Jew to own a house in New Amsterdam, which also made ...
Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village (/ ˈ s t aɪ v ə s ən t / STY-və-sənt), colloquially known as StuyTown, is a large post–World War II private residential development on the east side of the New York City borough of Manhattan.