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Peter Stuyvesant | |
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_Stuyvesant_portrait_c1660.jpg) Painting attributed to Hendrick Couturier c. 1660 | |
| Director-General of New Netherland | |
| In office 1647–1665 | |
| Preceded by | Willem Kieft |
| Succeeded by | Richard Nicolls (as Governor of New York) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | c. 1610 Peperga, Friesland, Dutch Republic |
| Died | August 1672 (aged 61–62) Manhattan, Province of New York |
| Resting place | St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery |
| Spouse |
Judith Bayard (m. 1645) |
| Relations | See Stuyvesant family |
| Children | Balthasar Lazarus Stuyvesant Nicolaes Willem Stuyvesant |
| Parent(s) | Balthazar Jansz Stuyvesant Margaretha van Hardenstein |
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| New Netherland series |
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| Exploration |
| Fortifications: |
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| The Patroon System |
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| People of New Netherland |
| Flushing Remonstrance |
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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] He was a major figure in the history of New York City and his name has been given to various landmarks and points of interest throughout the city (e.g. Stuyvesant High School, Stuyvesant Town, Bedford–Stuyvesant neighborhood, etc.).
Stuyvesant's accomplishments as director-general of New Netherland included a great expansion for the settlement of New Amsterdam beyond the southern tip of Manhattan. Among the projects built by Stuyvesant's administration were the protective wall on Wall Street, the canal that became Broad Street, and Broadway. Stuyvesant, himself a member of the Dutch Reformed Church, opposed religious pluralism and came into conflict with Lutherans, Jews, Roman Catholics, and Quakers as they attempted to build places of worship in the city and practice their faiths. Stuyvesant was in particular antisemitic, loathing both the Jewish ethnicity and religion.[4]
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- ^ Mooney, James E. "Stuyvesant, Peter" in Jackson, Kenneth T., ed. (2010). The Encyclopedia of New York City (2nd ed.). New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-11465-2. p.1256
- ^ Historical Dictionary of Colonial America, p. 230
- ^ "Introduction | A Tour of New Netherland".
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